Rabbi Chaim Mintz - Faith: Should I Leave It All Up To God, or Should I Get Involved? Part II

What’s said in this shiur

The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Chaim Mintz’s own words— taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

if you remember two weeks ago we were in the middle of a very interesting episode in the life of yaakov avinu and rachel and leia last week we had the wonderful shower broke us here we hope to have more of them some of the young people about to get married soon and we'll make sure everybody's from them too and we'll have i'll dance together and be very happy for their simcard we up to the part where rouvain the son of leia brought home the judoyan the mandrake plants which are helpful to help a woman conceive and he brought it to his mother leia and rocco asked leia for them and leia got upset with her as we mentioned i don't want to go into the whole thing just to bring us up today to whole thing just to bring us up today to refresh your memories and she said you took my husband away from me now you take him to do dying away from me and therefore russell said therefore tonight was my night to be yaakov avinu but you may take over this night and give me the dodoing give me these mandrakes maybe they'll help me become pregnant remembers leia already had four children and bill had two children zilbathus and broco had no children at all at all yet she was looking to find some way that she should become pregnant and to have the child so she figured maybe the two dorm might do the trick to do him have that that power to help along and because she gave up that night to be with the great sadducee

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1. 0:00if you remember two weeks ago we were in the middle of a very interesting episode…
2. 6:08them look like wild people they were god's creations the holy of the holiest such holy…
3. 12:15the telephone whatever it is that is not what a jewish employee has to do that's…
4. 18:20giving over to my employment and spending hours that's what did it i i i was…
5. 24:34happen to us because the god doesn't do miracles just like that for him was no…
6. 30:53thank you rabbi so um obviously we know that rahul sinned and and she you know…
7. 37:06in what we do are two different things what we get from god is giving it…
8. 43:12able to do i mean we're not talking talking about not uh living earning a livelihood…
9. 49:28she's all these children i can't have any children so she's very upset with herself it…
10. 55:36but once you reach it so then you're you're okay so that's what that's right it's…

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