Learning Torah Dating from 3,000 Years Ago - Rabbi Dr. David Gottlieb

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

have you an incident which in and of itself is interesting and a little bit complex that's be understood but what I want to show you is that studying a book that came into existence 3,300 years ago and which is recording history from 400 years before that could be as contemporary as today and you can learn both personal life strategy from it and you could also learn to search them out to political perspective from chapter 20 to political perspective from chapter 20 Abraham journeyed from there so the region of the south is settled between Kadesh and Shur and he soldiers in Garrard's name of the city I'm from said of his wife I saw his wife she's my sister those they pretended to be brother and sister they did that reveal that they're husband and wife there's no so in the Hebrew avi Mel f king of Gerard sent and took sorry God came to Gerard sent and took sorry God came to have a meal in a dream by night said to him behold you are to die because of the woman you have taken moreover she's a married woman now if you are thinking in terms of contemporary English slang we're taking means had relations with as you'll see shortly that's not not the case it's explicit in the text and he took her into the palace forced to please the king sent his soldiers out please the king sent his soldiers out took her into the palace God comes to the night and says you're gonna die take it and she's a married woman now abbey-mill had not approached her okay boys and girls took doesn't mean had relations had not approached that's his complaint watch that's exactly his complaint so he said and he said Oh My Lord will you slay a nation even though it is righteous did not he

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1. 0:15have you an incident which in and of itself is interesting and a little bit complex…
2. 3:59all that is yours it's gonna be an h-bomb blow you to smithereens and at this…
3. 8:10but husband and wife you would have killed me for my wife that's why I lied…
4. 12:17because he only gives Sarah back at the end okay now let's go back to Abraham…
5. 16:27a yes or a oh yes Wales the name of Jacob we are many generations removed…
6. 20:38not look weak when someone attacks you and you don't respond indeed often you look strong…
7. 24:43part that you do report will be inaccurate what did I say about the economy he…
8. 28:53together now I'll show you the third instance in the book of Genesis page 287 Jacob…
9. 33:04I'm telling you not to do it ridiculous to do it this way on the face…
10. 37:14actively will be able to claim that we weren't wrong now this is hinted at in…

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