Parshas Mikeitz: You Will Only Find Your Truth Via the Contradictions in Your Life

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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.

bras thank you all for joining us I know the the snow this morning was very very beautiful to look at but not the easiest to navigate if you had to drive or walk so thank you especially it was a great effort to come here I know even my little Trek wasn't that easy so thank you for gracing us with your presence today's class is dedicated by manim and baa Abrahams in honor of their children mael Maz Yeshua a Rafel and David Gabriel for much thank you very very much for your friendship and partnership next week there will also be a class it will be obviously a class the middle of Kaneka that's Tuesday Morning 9:30 so we will B have a woman's class everybody is invited and this evening which is also that ends well I think Yogi bar all is well that ends well so certainly it's a story that ends well and that that gives it a beautiful touch but when you delve deeper into it as the mafam as the commentators do you see suddenly many things that seem extremely perplexing and it challenges us it stimulates us to go a step deeper or a few steps deeper and really unravel the mystery and the deeper layers behind the story and then from going and explaining the literal story we then come to see how it also has such a powerful lesson and mirrors really the stories of our the story of our own lives let's remember the context of the story YF has been sold first he's been cast into a pit by his brothers in a sister and a bur that was last week VV and then he sold as a slave to a caravan

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1. 0:02bras thank you all for joining us I know the the snow this morning was very…
2. 6:52is par is sleeping and he dreams that he's standing by the Nile River the Nile…
3. 13:04be emaciated they'll be starving there will be nothing to eat that's why first you have…
4. 19:26and newer commentators all the discuss many questions that perturb them I'm just going to mention…
5. 25:32out good oh yeah take a look the last Source on the first page the last…
6. 31:48not like you have this free conversation he's your buddy he's your Ki he's your friend…
7. 37:25completely overwhelmed so does a lot of different approaches to explain all of this and I…
8. 43:39are the two sets of cows coexisting that detail in the dream remains a very profound…
9. 49:52understand this how can the two sets of cows exist simultaneously how can you have years…
10. 56:00going to be horrible you were showing how to deal with it yes there's going to…

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