Va'era - Super Powers, Ego & a Healthy Dose of Humility

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The opening of this shiur, in The Parsha In My Life - Rabbi Reuven Wolf’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

welcome everyone thank you for joining this is the parasa par in my life class um usually is on Mondays and tonight it was and is on Tuesday so the now this is the second Torah portion in The Exodus and we are learning about the plagues we're learning about the plagues that began bringing pharaoh parro and the Egyptians to their knees and allowing and bringing about the full Liberation and freeing of the millions a few Millions slaves that were held in slavery in Egypt against their will and far parro parro had to leave them out that happens next week Torah portion Paras Bo is the actual story of The Exodus but this is the events leading up to the Exodus in tonight's class we are going to focus more on the ha Torah ha Torah is the portion of the na'vi the portion of prophets that we read at the conclusion of after we on read the entire Torah portion we have an addition um a little piece of uh from taken from the other prophets in scripture and the sages select Ed certain parts of the Prophet a passage from the prophets to match the Torah portion the reason it was done because there was once a time when somebody you know we always have somebody doesn't like us and somebody thought that they can bully us and uh made that decision whether it was the Greeks the Romans or whoever it was that Jews ought not to read the Torah publicly that didn't work out too well in the end of course we continue reading the Torah and every single week and shows all over the world and their Greek Roman whatever things they were reading

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1. 0:03welcome everyone thank you for joining this is the parasa par in my life class um…
2. 6:18chapter 28 in Ezekiel and the beginning only two verses of the of chapter 28 primarily…
3. 12:28back there will be an end to their captivity they will be allowed to come back…
4. 18:38the Jews were fans of Ezekiel they believed he was a prophet others dismissed him so…
5. 24:51Egypt the Jewish people were going to take out the wealth of Egypt the despoiling of…
6. 31:03says I heard them cry well this is not the first time God heard them cry…
7. 37:19Mitzvah now obviously there are certain mitzvot there are certain mitzvot that it's the obvious way…
8. 43:29south to Egypt and leave it up to the Egyptian task Masters they were Geniuses in…
9. 49:39Pharaoh was the epitome of ego he was the epitome of not being of of of…
10. 55:52should be great thinker and I should know I should be the smartest guy on the…

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