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The Bat Ayin illuminates the Chanukah Story of Yehuda & Tamar Like Never Before

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Rabbi Duvi Bensoussan

A Torah shiur on Chanukah and the story of Yehuda and Tamar.

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there's an unbelievable episode in parashat that is extremely difficult to teach and over the years whenever we came to this parasha and we came and we crossed the story of yehuda tamar it was always a challenge how to be able to give that over properly to the talmudin nonetheless i'd like to share with you tonight in light of the fact that we're only a few days away from the great yomtov i'd like to introduce to you the great pirouesh of the bataan in this week's parashat on the episode of yuhudan tamar this is something to hear this is really a magnificent shot rubble thai we're going to find out tonight that there's such a fantastic opportunity that stands before us right now at the end of the month of kislev specifically on these coming up days of hanukkah so here we go we know the story of tamar tamara was the daughter-in-law of yehuda and after she married and they passed away it turns out that now tamar she falls and ye boom to the next son which was the youngest of yehudah shayla but you who not held them back i was scared he was wondering maybe this woman tamar his daughter-in-law is a katna need she's a black widow her husband's dying and because of that he has one son left shayla and he's worried if you give shayla over to tamar in yebu maybe he too will go so you never made excuses and he held him back and he said my son my son shayla he's still a young man a young man he's not yet ready for marriage he held them back and stalled just to be able to figure out and see what to

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