My Judaism Is Dead; My Marriage Is Lifeless; My Heart Is Numb

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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.

go through the story inside in the text I'll translate and explain. This is how you remember probably some of you remember safer Malachim Malachim base this is how chapter 4 begins. Ve'isha achas mine benei hanavi'im tza'akah el Elisha leimor one woman she was the wife of one of the students of the prophets benei hanavi'im means children of prophets and Tanakh child is often a euphemism for a student for a disciple like vishinantam levanacha in other places so this was a woman who was married she was the wife of one of the students of the prophets meaning he was somebody who was raised in prophecy and became a prophet himself tza'akah she came screaming crying el Elisha to Elisha Elisha who was the prophet one of the great prophets of the age a disciple of Eliyahu Hanavi Elijah the prophet who then was succeeded by his student and pupil Elisha so this woman Isha achas this one woman the wife of one of the prophets comes screaming and crying to Elisha saying avdecha your servant Ishi my husband meis has died. Ve'atah yada'ata ki you know ki avdecha yarei Hashem you know you knew my husband you know that your servant my husband was a god-fearing man veha'noshe ba'al kachas eshnei yeladai le'avdim The noshe is the one he is in debt to. The creditor, the one my husband owes a lot of money. He came to take both of my children as servants to work for him as collateral in lieu of

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