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Rabbi YY Jacobson explores the spiritual lessons of brokenness and transformation.
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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.
foreign I don't know [Music] um thank you for tonight foreign [Music] I was in Panama for a day I'm not even a day half a day in and out [Music] amazing Community it was first time I was there hit me twelve thousand Jews 40 kosher restaurants not bad beautiful Shoals yeah you're from Venezuela Brazil okay there's copies here if anybody wants from the mimer foreign good morning everybody and welcome today's class is dedicated by Esther weberman in honor of hashem's holy children okay that's beautiful thank you very much so the last two classes we had Monday morning and Tuesday morning learning the mimer of pesach Thompson or as the song goes remember to sing it huh it could be a different again amen amen Beyond what was the main point the first should ask the question that if he would have split the sea but would have not allowed us to go through what's the day you know what's the point what's the difference if you got slaughtered by the Egyptians or you get enslaved by the Egyptians and you have the sea split you don't have the sea split if you can't go through you're still stuck the whole point was to be able to get through the question the answer that the mafarsham give then it means that it would have been a Christian that the Jews would go through but it wouldn't be bakarava it would be muddy it wouldn't be comfortable needs understanding because then the term you should have been by abbasha as explained carava doesn't mean completely dry butcher means completely dry so from here you could derive that what the balha got the author of The God is saying in the dayenu is that the splitting of the sea itself is Diana this is also indicated in tehelum where there's two separates
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