Vayechi And The Queen Of England

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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.

Hashem should make them like a and ever wonder for a second why we tell our sons to be specifically like a fry and why don't we tell them to be like Ruvian and Shim or Le'Vy and Yehuda or Yahar and Zulen? Why out of all the illustrious do we choose to bless our kids to be like Ephraim and Manasha who by the way we know absolutely nothing about the answer generally given is that there's a fundamental difference between Ephraim and Manasha and the rest of the Ephraim and Manasha were not born they became the other sons grew up in a home enveloped in holiness and they grew up enveloped in holiness and they grew up with gigantic spiritual figures like Yakovitzk towering over them where they grew up in the shadow of their great-grandfather Avam and the famous Sha bever and grew up in Manhattan, in Miami, in Los Angeles. They grew up in Egypt. They grew up in exile alone. They grew up as the lonely Jews in a sea of Egyptian immorality. They grew up in an environment where you had to choose to be good because the standard was bad. And grow up, they did. They fought and they climbed and they persevered, they not only made it through alive, they climbed to be on the level of a So

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1. 0:32Hashem should make them like a and ever wonder for a second why we tell our…
2. 1:35climbed to be on the level of a So when we bless our children, we know…
3. 3:11because of a decision. We live Egypt and we immediately get attacked by a Malik. So…
4. 4:14and had no interest in Tyra. They didn't rebel. They just stopped choosing Hashem. So he…
5. 5:46depended on Jews choosing Hashem in environments that push the other way. every generation we exist…
6. 6:47randomly. We survive because we keep choosing him. Especially when it's hard. And every time we…
7. 8:18untouchable. Protection doesn't come from being connected. It comes from being connected and alive. That's the…
8. 9:19are not giving them comfort. We are giving them clarity. We are telling them that the…
9. 10:50earth. And you'd see all of that through a crack in the ghetto wall. Oh, completely…
10. 11:51in which they would discuss various political happenings from around the country and around the world.…

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