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Rabbi YY Jacobson explores the deeper meaning of walking on dry land in Jewish mysticism.
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foreign [Music] foreign [Music] for the copies for the beautiful compass okay [Music] foreign class is dedicated by the Menachem Abrams the foreign ER and Main may it be easy Swift soon smooth and this and everything else thank you very very much um and everybody who needs to do him should be able to find the need the Cardiff and easy the right one in a smooth fashion and those who are those who have their should learn how to appreciate and celebrate and enjoy able she also be able to find their in a deeper way f Okay so yesterday was our first class in the my mercama Miles Davis and what was the summation of it the moment began with the famous question that many mepharsham asked that when you go through the dayenus there's something very perplexing and then as in the beginning it makes perfectly sense the beginning it makes perfectly sense he says if you would have taken us out of Egyptian Village but you would have not penalized and punished and destroyed the gods and the idols of Egypt would have been enough we're out we're good right he continues further right even if he would have destroyed their gods but not killed he wouldn't have killed their firstborn okay we would still be okay we would still be free emancipated people even if the firstborn Egyptian Sons would have remained intact he continues if he would have killed him not given us their money that you know okay we wouldn't have gone out uh so rich and so wealthy but we're free we're a people we're independent our kids are not being thrown into our children are being thrown into the river they ain't I get it afterwards though it becomes tricky
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- 7:57an interesting answer their answer is it doesn't mean we wouldn't have passed at all we…
- 14:13completely submerged creatures on dry land also live from the earth we also have a source…
- 20:18yeah well Sushi is raw fish the old joke that Sushi is really a Jewish food…
- 26:31as a separate being vacus does not equal existence on the contrary and the contrary if…
- 32:44and you say you're a fish no you have to take care of the Goof you…
- 39:12because if not the question is don't do Christians if they could move further and I…
- 45:43or I live on dry land spiritually either I live in artillas or I live in…
- 52:00watching it that's true on one level but sometimes there's a deeper truth and the deeper…
- 58:09your being I'm not saying within you an ego a flavored ego but within within being…
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