The Apprentice - Parshat Re'eh

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

[Music] once there was a prince who was sent by his father to a distant village to gain experience of the world the prince spent many years in the village and finally the king was satisfied that his son had learned the maximum from his time spent there and he summoned his son the prince to return to the palace after his departure the villagers eyes filled with tears and they sat down and filled with tears and they sat down and cried but there was one villager who said why are you crying is he not the king's son has he not returned to the palace to his true place the soul in this world is like a prince fulfilling an apprenticeship in a distant village we're here solely to learn the ways of the king in this world we're clothed with a physical existence however our entire focus and desire must be to return to the palace in the ancient world when grieving for a

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1. 0:00[Music] once there was a prince who was sent by his father to a distant village…
2. 0:30filled with tears and they sat down and cried but there was one villager who said…
3. 1:00in the ancient world when grieving for a dead person idol worshipers would make a bald…
4. 1:32space by grieving too much for someone who has returned to the palace this physical world…
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