Parshat Vayechi with Reb Chaim Kramer

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The opening of this shiur, in BRI Breslov: The Breslov Research Institute’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

Shalom Aleichem. Welcome to the Breslov Research Weekly Parshah Shiur. This coming Shabbos is Vayechi. Vayechi tells us that Yaakov was alive. Yaakov lived in Egypt. He lived for 17 years. 17 is the Hebrew gematria of the word Tov. Tov is tes, nine; vav is six; that's 15, and two is 17. Tov is what Yaakov lived. He lived 17 years; he had good. Why did he have good? The Midrash tells us that Yaakov didn’t pass away until he saw 600,000 descendants. Now, he came down to Egypt with 70 children, grandchildren. All right, 70, seven oh. In 17 years, his nation grew to 600,000 people. 17 years, 600,000. All right, the Gemara says that in those days, they used to be able to give birth at the age of eight. It’s a Gemara in Sanhedrin. But Yaakov lived. What do you mean he lived? Well, every day there’s the birth of a grandson, a bris, a kiddish for a daughter. There’s a wedding, a bar mitzvah, bas mitzvah. Every single day. 70 to 600,000 in 17 years. You’ve got to be very prolific for that. And he was, and Klal Yisrael were. So Yaakov lived. The nachas that he had, seeing his nation grow and grow. What was so important? Well, the Zohar/the Ari explain that the Torah could not be given - the Torah has 600,000 letters, and the Torah could not be given until there were 600,000 souls. Why? Because each soul is rooted in a letter of Torah. You hear that? Every Jewish soul, no matter who they are, their roots go back to the Torah. And they’re connected very strongly, very tightly, very

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1. 0:03Shalom Aleichem. Welcome to the Breslov Research Weekly Parshah Shiur. This coming Shabbos is Vayechi. Vayechi…
2. 1:1217 years, his nation grew to 600,000 people. 17 years, 600,000. All right, the Gemara says…
3. 2:19600,000 letters, and the Torah could not be given until there were 600,000 souls. Why? Because…
4. 4:02still lives. Why? How? Because he saw the goodness of every single Jew. He saw tov.…
5. 5:12now. And people are banding together from all over the world to send goods and supplies…
6. 6:53in every single Jew. If you do that, you’ll bring them to the side of merit.…
7. 8:02in Egypt. What did they have to look up to? Where did they have a chance…
8. 9:18that was fitting for that tribe. Everyone gets what you’re supposed to get. And that’s another…
9. 11:02evil that’s there in the world, right? Nobody’s doing that for the good. The fact remains,…
10. 12:04who wants to study history will see that wherever the Jews went, they built. They’re kicked…

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