Parshat Lech Lecha - A Hitchiker's Guide to Eternity

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

many years ago in a more naive and certainly safer world I once hitchhiked from Amsterdam in Holland to Pisa in Italy not only The Young and the reckless and I was certainly both would climb aboard the rear seat of a BMW 900 motorcycle on a night of driving rain with a 50 pound pack strapped to your back and this placed my center of gravity some more past the outer extremity of the rear wheel and every time the rider wheel and every time the rider accelerated the backpack dragged me backward off the bike the Autobahn was a sea of rain that night it was King David who taught us that God protects fools and that night I certainly qualified for protection but hitchhiking taught me something other than that God protects the food hitchhiking taught me what we call in Hebrew minakata nefesh literally the repose of the Spirit we live in the

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2. 0:31wheel and every time the rider accelerated the backpack dragged me backward off the bike the…
3. 1:01the repose of the Spirit we live in the world where stress will literally eat us…
4. 1:33where I am and I don't need to be anywhere else a Jew's job is to…
5. 2:04I'm alive that little agenda pilot that lives in our heads can steal our lives away…
6. 2:37to himself to connect every god-given second in his life…

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