Vayishlah: Bribing Satan | Rabbi Ariel Mizrahi

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Okay, good morning everyone. Thank you for joining us on this beautiful Monday morning, Cyber Monday as we are studying together Torah virtually and we have a new of course begins with as he is about to encounter his brother is for the final time in their lifetime and [clears throat] he is preparing for this meeting with his brother. If you remember last last they met, Isab was remember last last they met, Isab was robbed of blessings that he thought were his and he was furious. He wanted to kill his brother. He was able to control himself because he didn't want it to hurt his parents. That's how much by the way had that he was willing to wait and not kill his brother. He controlled his blood thirst in order not to upset his father. That's the degree of that he had for his father. Um but be it may is now ready. father. Um but be it may is now ready. He's coming with 400 men ready to kill Yakov. And so Yakov prepares for this meeting in three ways. We know that he uh prays, he splits his camp, he prepares for battle. And number three, he sends gifts. He sends gifts. And [clears throat] the says was very afraid. Okay, he was human. We was very afraid. Okay, he was human. We see over here the emotions of the avot was human. He had feelings. He had fear. Pasuk says he had he had he was afraid. He was not afraid. He was very afraid. Okay, this is au. So today I want to share with you a beautiful question and an idea from the shalom the shalom he begins here this week's para he has an essay and he begins with the idea of trusting in hashem okay again not

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1. 0:00Okay, good morning everyone. Thank you for joining us on this beautiful Monday morning, Cyber Monday…
2. 3:08going to protect you and again my level of protection goes with my level of trust…
3. 6:55the latter the prophecy God said to I am with you. I will protect you. I'll…
4. 10:02If you act like a child, then you're called a child. You're called a son, you're…
5. 13:40Was afraid and very distressed. This way the word very is going on both. Why is…
6. 16:46ruin me spiritually this is what is worried about so he prays to hashem and This…
7. 20:29You see dirt, dirt can grow. Dirt has a future. You could plant in dirt. There's…
8. 23:32in a spiritual sense. If it's a physical battle I understand Yakov is praying to Hashem…
9. 27:07"Don't wait till you're free to learn because you may not be free." So on a…
10. 30:23uh good at all. At least he showed up. At least he did something. Better than…

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