Vayeshev: Longing for Belonging | Rabbi Ariel Mizrahi

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

Okay, good morning everyone. Thank you for joining us on this beautiful Thursday morning as we are studying together. My friends, the para has so much to talk about. I wish I had a year. The ideas, the insights, the lessons on our personal lives is just tremendous. But like our rabbi say you got to just start like our rabbi say you got to just start somewhere. So let us start from the very beginning. Okay, fine. Let's start from the beginning. A very good place to start. And begins he dwells in the land of his father of Kenan. This is the story of Yakov or these are the children of Yakov. Yseph he's 17. He is uh shephering with his brothers in the sheep. Okay. The puk says that he was a youth. He was a youth with Benha with the sons of Bilha and the sons of Zilpa the wives of his father and Ysef brought the bad reports to their dad. So a lot of pronouns of the year he was friends with them. Okay. And he brought their evil reports. what exactly is going on. So there are different ways of explaining the pisukimov but let's just give a little quick introduction had four wives actually a little bit had four wives actually a little bit more precise he had two wives and two concubines or maidervants pilagim rael and lea are the two wives and the two maidervants handmaidadens whatever you want to call them are zilpa and bilha okay they are not wives at least in the beginning. All four beget children for Yakov. Leah has uh six and Bilha Zila each have two

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