Vayechi: My Thoughts Go Everywhere, But My Self Remains Anchored

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Today's class is dedicated by uh Nessa Gulchm and her family Beth and her husband Lawrence Gulchid in honor and in tribute and loving memory of Nessa's mother [snorts] Alaya Charifka Bas Reme tribute to the yard site of Testavis dedicated by her beloved daughter Nessa Goldsmith. Thank you very very much. May your mother remain an everlasting source of light, blessing and inspiration to you and the whole family and all of the Jewish people. Also dedicated by Kakayan Kaplan [snorts] wishing Khani and Khan Gwartz a big mazletov on their son mayor's wedding to Deini Mermlstein may it be a binad and a beautiful and blessed life and their son's bar mitzvah and kana's birthday maztov maztov thank you so much I want to address with you today a comp a verse in at the surface it just looks like a uh nice compliment words of praise but when we go a little bit deeper we see an entire world and really worlds unraveling here. I would say that one of the most fascinating things in learning terra is to see how sometimes a few cryptic and seemingly irrelevant words contain within themselves layers of extraordinary depth and wisdom and perspective. Another fascinating thing is that sometimes a concrete and simple law that seems very technical and tedious mirrors a very profound and profound ideas in life. An example of these truths we'll see today in this pk in parenu bids farewell to his family. A life 147 years intense loaded filled

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1. 0:00Today's class is dedicated by uh Nessa Gulchm and her family Beth and her husband Lawrence…
2. 6:12archers despised him and loathed him. Comes from the word means an arrow. So those who…
3. 12:24then it was split into Manasha. Why are we all called Ysef? We're not all called.…
4. 18:34there's a very interesting about Mishkan Shilo a very interesting law. What is that? Generally when…
5. 24:47family of Yakov because Yakov before he sent her to Egypt, he wrote that and Ysef…
6. 31:02that you're shepherds. And indeed, they come to the king and he says, "What are you…
7. 37:11of a world that is just a random physical place and my focus is I need…
8. 43:22actually he was an environment where every single day he was tempted, where he was lured…
9. 49:30the sun come from the sun and they bring us warmth. They bring us heat. They…
10. 55:39person never experienced their soul, if my soul is not my best friend, then I'm looking…

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