Vayeitzei - Don't be Lavan

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

Hi, this is David Lowski and welcome to the para in five where in five minutes we try to give you some insight into the para to help make your own shabas a little more enjoyable. Pes we get introduced well this is not really his introduction his introduction was much earlier but we knew him of course but we get to know pretty well one of the most difficult characters in Tanakh to deal with which is Lavan and uh Lavan seems like one of the most corrupt and crooked guys you could ever meet. Yeah. Nonetheless, you somehow he managed to trick YaKob a 100 times. Changed his deals a 100 times. Yakov says, "Yeah." And he and he's called love on which is kind of strange. I would have called him shak or black, you know. Call him white. White is like purity, white is uh truth. Yeah. So, Loveven is such an interesting character because he's a master at making him look like he's the right guy. He's a good guy and he's not. So, as we know right at the beginning of the par, he switches Ra and Leia and Yakov says, "How could you do this to me?" And he says, "Look, Jacob, did you really think I was going to marry off the younger daughter before the older daughter?" Now, I don't know what goes

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1. 0:00Hi, this is David Lowski and welcome to the para in five where in five minutes…
2. 0:33Tanakh to deal with which is Lavan and uh Lavan seems like one of the most…
3. 1:05So, Loveven is such an interesting character because he's a master at making him look like…
4. 1:36on in your house. I know there were some issues over there with you and your…
5. 2:37YaKob, what kind of way is this to behave? You run away in the middle of…
6. 3:09and he says, "You should know. I not that I would, but I've got an army…
7. 3:41and says, "What did I ever do? What did I take of yours? Go through everything."…
8. 4:41Reminds me in my misspent youth of a Bugs Bunny cartoon where Daffy Duck and him,…
9. 5:13strikes him. And later on, Bugs Bunny sitting on the beach goes, "I wonder what ever…
10. 5:43"Let's make a circle out of the stones." And says, which I put up. Okay, he…

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