HaMeor SheBah #37: Rav Yoeli Klein: Grasping at Threads of Holiness

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

[Music] someone names their dog charlie so usually there's not all that much thought that goes into it but in judaism when we have a name there's a lot that goes into it the name is a representation of the essence of the person even when other mauritian was naming the animals it represented who they were to the core the letters of the aleph base all unified to explain and to really represent what is going on inside so then we come to yaakov and aesop and it's very interesting asa we understand why he's named isa asu he was made he came out already like a complete person but yaakov who is our forefather that the inclines claudia soil is named after and is taken after yaakov yakov his name comes from he was grasping onto the heel a cave of his brother asaph so this is puzzling to say the least here we have our forefather and his name is not only named after something that he was holding on to his brother who in the end was the most one of the most wicked people ever asev but it's his heel even let's say he would say he was holding on to his head okay so he would maybe named after the head at least it's something but he's named after the heel of asav russia yaakov so the kliyaka has an amazing shot that shows a lot of light and so much in life he says that the other side

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1. 0:02[Music] someone names their dog charlie so usually there's not all that much thought that goes…
2. 0:32represent what is going on inside so then we come to yaakov and aesop and it's…
3. 1:02to say the least here we have our forefather and his name is not only named…
4. 1:33the people that are not connected to they'll sometimes do great things they'll sometimes be involved…
5. 2:05is that he grabs on to those things that their shoulder might be trampling on their…
6. 2:36something small even here's a quarter it doesn't matter you gave him life because you gave…
7. 3:07just a bunch of blades of grass and not this huge thing so the gemara i…
8. 3:38what's shot one of the shots is that when we go in this world how do…
9. 4:08thread until when they get up to shamayim they see a mountain of threads and they…
10. 4:38so hashem should help us all that we should realize that every moment in life we…

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