Guarding Your Seed of Eternity - Parsha Vayechi - By Rabbi YY Jacobson

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

[Music] so [Music] good evening and welcome to all joining us here this evening from across the globe tonight's class is dedicated by our dear friends david and ida schottenstein in the sacred memory of the kidoshim of mumbai and rabbi gabriel and rifki [Music] also dedicate tonight's class in the loving memory of a young soul alta shula swordlove the daughter of hindu and rabbayasi swordlove from the holy city of jerusalem [Music] they tell the anecdote about the rabbi the priest and the minister sitting in a starbucks sipping a latte and discussing what they would like to hear people say at their funerals the priest says i'd love to hear people eulogize me as a true servant of the lord a man who was dedicated to the work of the lord and to bringing the light of the lord into the world the minister says i would like to hear people say about me he was a true friend you can rely on him 24 hours a day seven days a week in the middle of the day in the middle of the night this was a man you can truly trust as a companion and as a friend and spiritual mentor rabbi what about you what would you like to hear people say at your funeral and the rabbi says i would like to hear somebody say at my funeral you know i think he's moving this evening we want to explore a lovely and fascinating story in the talmud please open up your curriculums or source sheets right below the video there is a pdf document with a source sheet please open it up source number one zag the gemara in mist base this story is in shrek daitanit page 5 b the talmud relates the following story

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1. 6:18eulogized jacob and the embalmers embalmed jacob and the barriers bury jacob as the torah explains…
2. 12:34shakola natives that all the shoots that are planted from you should be just like you…
3. 18:49value of life the importance of life the sacredness of life not to engage in anything…
4. 25:02so forth so not only are they not dead but sometimes they're even more alive when…
5. 31:09to create a new person when it is conceived and developed into a fetus so it's…
6. 36:46and the sense of intimacy that is reserved for the relationship between a husband and a…
7. 43:02it was used for something living for something alive for a living relationship for a living…
8. 49:08represented and this is the difference between yaakov and avraham and concerning avraham we know not…
9. 55:20have i'm going to bless you that all of the shoots which come from you should…

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