Parshas Vayeira: Is It Possible that Your Soul Signed Off on Everything that Goes Down in Your Life?

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Okay, there's one. Good morning everybody and welcome. There's one source sheet. It's double-sided. So, if you didn't get, please thank you, Mrs. Klein. It's double-sided. Thank you everybody for gracing us with your presence. I want to especially welcome back Hindi Marowitz who's here with us. Thank you for coming. And whenever you come, you fill our room and our share come, you fill our room and our share with light. So, thank you very much and everybody else who's here and gracing us with your presence and those who are here virtually as well. You don't I don't see you but you can see us. Today's class is graciously dedicated by Dr. Yascal good friend in honor of the yard site of his dear father David Benescal Halevi good friend. He was a Holocaust survivor and a model of everything that exemplifies what a true mench should be. May his soul remain an eternal source of light and love and inspiration for you and for the entire family and for the entire community and all of the Jewish people. And may we see very speedily and all of the all of our people and thank you very very much. Amen. Shanus for you and yours. I find one of the sukim, one of the verses in para to be one of the most uh gripping I don't know if the right word is haunting. But maybe the word is haunting or certainly gripping verses in the totality of Tanakh. In paras Vira which is beratious chapter n chapter 19 of Genesis Vira pericutes berious pericutes we have the story the opens up with Arainu

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2. 6:15and all the nations of the earth are going to be blessed by him. He's going…
3. 13:02desire for a reward. Dramam actually in the laws of repentance chapter 10 when he wants…
4. 19:15He was steeped in a world of paganism and he felt that his mission is to…
5. 25:27raising here is the shocking fact of this PK. Why Hashem is convincing himself, I'm using…
6. 31:52"Even if I would have asked him to cut down trees that are beautiful and amazing…
7. 38:08opinion takes it a step a step further to be hooded with three advisers, three best…
8. 44:22like the medish says we just learned Hashem consulted the souls of the whether to create…
9. 50:45So it's not you came into the picture afterwards. You know, I did this whole thing…
10. 57:01before anything could happen. What's saying here? I want to ask you an honest question. Look…

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