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When I Discovered Who Runs the World: How Real Is Divine Providence?

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Rabbi YY Jacobson

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defeats them he triumphs there's no commemoration of it light is saved from saddam in the merit of avramovino the whole story the angel saving light and and his two daughters there's no commemoration of it sora our matriarch is saved from para avi they abduct her she saved rifka saved from the king of philistine no commemoration the birth of yitzhak supernatural sorrow is infertile we don't commemorate it there's no special mitzvah or tribute to that the same is true with the birth of yaakov and asap the birth of yosef even though all of these were supernatural joseph and his brothers joseph remains alive he's liberated from prison he reconciles with his brothers these are titanic events that shaped our earliest history they molded the character the psyche the sensitivities the value system of the jewish people but we don't commemorate them we learn about them we discuss them we reflect on them we meditate upon them but there's no special myths for commemorating any of these events all of the patriarchs and matrix they went through so much yitzhak was brought up to the altar right he was almost slaughtered there for around al-qaeda the last moment god said no it's an event there's even a date for the event in piccadillas but we don't commemorate any of these events even though we tell the story and so many other yakov meets asaf instead of ace of trying to kill him they embrace each other they cry there's a moment of reconciliation there's no commemoration of that event one exception and the exception is this story

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  2. 6:07that are commemorating certain events they pay tribute to anniversaries to encounters to experiences to miraculous…
  3. 12:14maybe it would be a feast in the old joke of the grandfather who tells his…
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  6. 30:38providence that because the creator is infinite and therefore infinite really means infinite so therefore the…
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  9. 48:53wonderful what do i say about it everything came into existence to divine energy who's talking…
  10. 55:02almost a year in advance and i booked it i put it into the calendar whatever…

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