Toledot: Tunneling Upwards | Rabbi Ariel Mizrahi

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Okay, good morning everyone and thank you for joining us on this beautiful Monday morning as we are studying together a new paras to do our paras begins with the um uh [clears throat] with this uh beautiful idea of prayer you know and they are married they are barren and they're having a very difficult time having children. The difficult time having children. The pasuk says that they were actually married uh for 20 years. 20 years without children and finally after 20 years the says [clears throat] he um he prayed to God. He intreated Hashem opposite his wife. opposite his wife. And so we find that um God answered their prayer. Prayed opposite his wife and Hashem answered them. And there's a few words that we use for prayer. We know that the word is very famous to pray. um mosherenu uses um the Jewish people cried out but we find in the word and today's class we're going to dig and today's class we're going to dig deep and there's no pun intended in that word and you'll see what I mean in a minute but we're going to take a deep dive into the word and what is it what is the significance why is that the word that's so that's used for prayer over here. And what is the difference between that and all other forms of prayer? The zor says that the word you know in Hebrew certain letters are interchangeable. They come from the same

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2. 2:36refers to digging. When a person digs and the zord explains that when he prayed, what…
3. 5:51are there's midatin there's the attribute of justice attribute of justice said God this is not…
4. 8:58God weaves designs to prevent the distant from being entirely cast away. God says if the…
5. 12:02barren but as barren as she was it wasn't really barren. She couldn't have kids but…
6. 15:07a Jew can dig. A Jew can go around the curtain. This is what we learn…
7. 17:43whether you're because of biological, it does not matter. cries and he prays and eventually his…
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9. 23:58heavens. He said, "Look down. Abraham, don't worry about the astrology. Don't worry about the zodiac.…
10. 27:04Do we bring poverty? Do we add stress? Are we bringing crime rates up? As Jews,…

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