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This class explores the battle over Yosef's identity and the Greek persecution of the Jews.
A 1h 39m hashkafa shiur by Rabbi YY Jacobson. Like every video on Lehallel, it was judged and approved under the Lehallel law before it ever appeared — no unreviewed result is ever shown.
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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi YY Jacobson’s own words— taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.
okay welcome everybody happy and and bright and luminescent and FES of Kaneka to each of you and all of your families and a goodes as well thank you for the reminder and may the light of kanaka Illuminating the darkness permeate us and penetrate us and illuminate us for Kaneka and for the entire year among all of our people and among all of your loved ones loved ones with True light on every level material and spiritual today's class is dedicated by ad sash in honor and in the Merit of freeing all of the aun in the world Amen thank you very much wow okay there is a very famous famous medish that is often quoted when it comes Kaneka time and even though it's extremely famous it's also very enigmatic it's very hard to understand and we're going to be AEM Today Show and demonstrate how sometimes this literally one expression it's two words contains within itself an entire velt on Sha an entire perspective an velt on Sha an entire perspective an entire way of looking at things and reveals an inner dimension of Kana that oftenness could be beneath the surface it casts a light or it Kindles a flame pun intended to be able to illuminate something that can be hidden which is always the function of light True Light the context of the med is it's right at the beginning of the med over there everybody knows the way the tah Begins the story of the way the tah Begins the story of creation and of the world is in the beginning Hashem God created the heavens and the Earth and then comes the second verse which already tells us that it wasn't so simple there was a lot of chaos the Earth was so so literally means it was in a state of Chaos in a state of desolateness
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- 0:00okay welcome everybody happy and and bright and luminescent and FES of Kaneka to each of…
- 6:12yava the commentators throughout the generations struggled with this one of the most fascinating interpretations comes…
- 12:21that when they said ride on the Horn of the ax they were referring to Y…
- 18:36Egypt was then the superpower over the world and it led the world both in economic…
- 24:53Baker so uh he spoke at the funeral so he said that uh I would always…
- 31:04comes from this P just for trivia you could add it to the Kaneka game whoever…
- 37:304,000 miles and suddenly you know you see a little box right and you stretch out…
- 43:41things going on so it's like let me just do things alone but the truth is…
- 49:49reason to make me powerful that's the whole reason you'll be the most powerful person and…
- 56:03power what was his dream his dream was everybody is binding sheaves but what happens his…
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- Hashkafa — 1h 39m, by Rabbi YY Jacobson
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