The blessing of war

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Hillel Eisenberg’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

if you zoom on this fight, it seems a little strange. Why did the angel start up with Yakov, right, as he was on his way to make peace with Asov? Like why then of all times specifically? He was off to make peace. Why was the angel stopping him then? And secondly, the Gumra in it says that the dust created by that fight was so precious that it rose all the way up to Hashem's throne in heaven. Why is that? It was a fight. What exactly was so precious about it? And thirdly, when the fight is finally And thirdly, when the fight is finally over, Yakov turns to his opponent and he asks for Abraa. Isn't that strange? Why would he ask his opponent who he just battled to bless him? Shouldn't he punch him in the face? 10 seconds ago, the angel had severely injured YaKob, and now he's asking him for a farewell blessing. How does that make any sense? So perhaps the answer is based on the following. I was once walking in Lakewood, New Jersey. And across the street, I spotted Rabdust, the great street, I spotted Rabdust, the great Russa of Badaya, and he was walking alone. So I decided, you know what? I'm going to go ask him something. I'm going to go ask him a question. It was a few days at the time before Kaneka, and I posed the following question to him. I said, why is it that on Kaneka, we thank Hashem in Alanim for the mamos, for the wars? We thank Hashem in Alanim for the Nissim, the gurus, the Yeshua, the salvation, the miracles, the strength that Hashem displayed for us. But then we go on and we say we thank Hashem for

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1. 0:30if you zoom on this fight, it seems a little strange. Why did the angel start…
2. 2:02we go on and we say we thank Hashem for the war itself, for the mosus.…
3. 4:04When we thank Hashem for the muhamos of Kaneka, we are thanking him for the test…
4. 5:37But that's not it. Hashem isn't punishing them harder. He's investing in them deeper. The harsher…
5. 7:40And precisely because our souls are built for a level of greatness. nothing else in creation…
6. 9:45that to me?" He asked for a bra because he understood this wasn't cruelty. This was…
7. 11:15describes this beautifully. There was once a young prince who wandered a little bit too far…
8. 13:20Listen to this story. The year was 1956 in New Haven, Connecticut. And the great blizzard…
9. 14:52was walking down the block as she squints her eyes and she does not believe it.…
10. 16:55Herman, the woman who walked a mile in the snow, had only girls, and had been…

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