What's the Deal with Shema Koleinu? (Part 4)

The Tefilah Podcast

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Length: 1 hour 6 minutes
Synopsis: This evening (3/8/23), in our Wednesday night Tefilah shiur, we might have bitten off more than we could chew. Our goal was to understand the opening phrase in Shema Koleinu. To do this, we analyzed Shemos 2:23-25 with Sforno's commentary AND the recently published alternative Sforno commentary on AlHaTorah. What made this ambitious is that we ALSO read Sforno's commentaries on nearly all the pesukim he cites - a task we attempted in a Chumash shiur I gave last year. This was a LOT of Sforno. Did we emerge with an understanding of the line from Shema Koleinu? ... Kind of. We definitely took a few steps, but there remains work to be done. We shall see what develops in the meantime.
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Related Rabbi Schneeweiss Content:
3/23/22: Why Did Hashem Redeem Us From Egypt? Sforno's Counterintuitive Take

מקורות:
נוסח התפילה
אבודרהם - עמידה
שמות ב:כג-כה; ג:ז,ט עם פירוש ספורנו ושיעורי ר' עובדיה ספורנו
בראשית א:כו-כז; יז:א,ז עם פירוש ספורנו ושיעורי ר' עובדיה ספורנו
דברים ד:ז עם פירוש ספורנו
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