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Why do Jews say Baruch Hashem?

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died Rachel. So now he's down to three and 12 sons and a daughter. Um, and his favorite son is Yoseph, the son of his favorite wife, Rahel, the oldest son of his favorite wife. And Yseph doesn't get along too well with his brothers. They hate him. Yseph has two dreams. In one dream, he and his brothers are bind are tying bundles of wheat and suddenly his bundle stands upright and all the other bundles um gather around his bundle and all bow down to his bundle. And then he all bow down to his bundle. And then he has another dream that he shares with his brothers where the sun, moon, and 11 stars are bowing down to him. And his brothers understand that with both dreams he's trying to tell them that one day they're all going to bow down to him and he's going to rule over them. and they hate him even more because of um his dreams. Well, one day the um brothers are um watching their sheep around the area of Shem and his Yseph is with his father and his father sends Yseph to go find out how his brothers are doing. Um as Yseph comes to his are doing. Um as Yseph comes to his brother approaches his brothers, they see him from a distance. They say, "Here is the dreamer. Let us kill him. throw him into one of the pits and say, "Let us see what happens to his dreams." And um as they are as he is um uh drawing near, Ruvane says, "No, let us not kill him." The oldest brother says, "Do not kill him. Rather um just take him alive and throw him into a pit." And Rufin was hoping to then later um extract him from that pit and bring him

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  1. 0:30died Rachel. So now he's down to three and 12 sons and a daughter. Um, and
  2. 5:37chance chances with her. um uh with with his one remaining son. And um Shayla grows
  3. 11:21and the wine maker are both taken out. The baker is hung and the wine maker
  4. 17:13the point that his uh master Potifar made him manager over all of his affairs and
  5. 22:47should not was blind could not see him right but should not feel and realize that
  6. 28:23rhyme in English, but it rhymes in in Yiddish. Um that we plan and God laughs
  7. 33:33letters. Again, an acronym. We love acronyms. Um, and we write the letters lamemed or LH
  8. 39:12the Torah says people are successful. When when people are not successful and struggling then they
  9. 44:50how are you? How is your health? How is your livelihood?" And the fellow ignores him
  10. 50:30nevertheless, we continue to do so because that is the way we live as Jews. That

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