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Parsha Mnemonics Vayeitzei - פרשת ויצא סימנים: קמ"ח פסוקים, חלק"י סימן, מחני"ם סימן

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Rabbi Aaron L Raskin

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[Music] the portion of riot say has 148 to sukham roof mem has spoken and it's also the mnemonic of Kalki which means my portion and also the mnemonic of Machinarium which means two camps and Machinarium which means two camps and the question is why is it that the portion of the eight say has 148 sukham and what's the connection between these two concepts of Kalki and Machinarium we find in the very last two verses of the portion the Torah says that Yaakov the portion the Torah says that Yaakov began to sojourn back to Israel it says over there of a yak live Haleakala dark rainy and on the way back to israel it says over the air via KO voi malik al Hakeem and all the sudden the angels of God encountered him and therefore by yummy Yaakov Yaakov says Kashiram McNelly Kimsey he Yaakov says Kashiram McNelly Kimsey he goes on to say this is a godly camp and therefore vehicular Shaima mochima who Mackinaw him so we called this place McConnell says Rashi why Mackinaw him to tell us that there were two groups two camps of angels that met up with Yaakov the camp of angels that escorted him and protected him over all the years when he protected him over all the years when he was outside of Israel and then a second group of angels that are in Israel but they came out of Israel to escort him back now into the Land of Israel so at this moment you have Mahanaim two camps Macanese one camp Machinarium is two camps so now there are two camps of Angels the angels of outside of Israel that protected him all these years in the house of Luverne and Hutton and now

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  1. 0:02[Music] the portion of riot say has 148 to sukham roof mem has spoken and it's
  2. 2:39the house of Luverne and Hutton and now the new set of angels the Angel of
  3. 5:46following words and these angels ain't your team futsal audits they are not allowed to go
  4. 8:24reasons outside of Israel and you want to learn from him if you have to go
  5. 11:28of Israel because you want to bring somebody into Israel in other words the objective is
  6. 14:04at it and a more mystical level and that is what is the story of Jacob
  7. 17:11go into hora not because he was running away from Asaph but rather there was a
  8. 19:53when we plunge down into the Diaspora we're given a second set of angels the angels
  9. 22:56world a holy place so this is the concept of Machinarium that we should know that
  10. 25:35therefore the Torah is telling us in this week's portion through the mnemonic that is true

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