Zera Shimshon - Parashat Vayechi 2018 - Rabbi Laredo

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

if anyone would look in the torah scroll this week you would find something fascinating now every new torah portion either starts the beginning of a line has a new paragraph an indent a couple spaces this week believe it or not if you would just look at the torah you wouldn't so easily be able to identify wouldn't so easily be able to identify where this torah portion is starting from and that is because there's no extra space there's no indent you know when you type there's no tab there's no enter new paragraph it's just all right stuck in the middle as if you would have never paid attention to it and obviously the question is why the zohar asks this question and gives no less than three answers rashi rashi asks this question and he gives the first answer of the tsar and he gives another answer so what are these answers so zora's first answer is in the name of rabbi yaakov rabbi akov says that when jacob passed away the eyes of the jewish people were dimmed and shut what does that mean it was obviously a very sad moment when jacob when jacob the final patriarch passed away but what did he provide he provided a scholarship of torah which was specific to the patriarchs of course joseph and moses and the further generations all had their connection but there's nothing like a connection of a patriarch and after the trilogy of patriarchs is now no more jacob being the last

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2. 2:32rabbi judah says that when jacob passed away that's when the jewish people really fell into…
3. 5:39to be shepherds now listen to what it says and they inhabited it and they took…
4. 8:12daughter-in-law unknowingly and then there were two kids like think of it this man's life was…
5. 11:18he took five years away from him he made him pass away five years premature in…
6. 14:18and i haven't lived to the same number of years as my ancestors as my father…
7. 16:57pushed in a wheelchair never mind walking around but go back that to those times 130…
8. 20:03amazing means you're enthusiastic and happy about everything that is happening to your life in your…
9. 22:34further go on and the torah tells us later on after all of what has happened…
10. 25:41descendants what was specific about jacob compared to abraham and isaac is that jacob was able…

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