Rabbi Yehoshua Nissan - Parshas Vayeira: A Life Worth Dying For

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

thank you everyone for joining tuesday incredible always always to get together for this and uh this week and i've so much here to say i i cannot even imagine that we're going to get to it i cannot even imagine but we're going to get to what we could get to and it's it's precious precious what we're going to say this week parshas vallero and we know the big event the big event that you can't avoid talking about it's just at the end of this week's powershell is the story of the akedah powershell is the story of the akedah that awesome incredible i mean it sends chills up your spine it can make you cry it's just an awesome sight this idea that hashem commands abraham to sacrifice his son the son that abram the very same son that abram was promised would be his continuation and his future generations that very same one hashem says finito go sacrifice him to me and we know that abram in his awesome and we know that abram in his awesome love for hashem and his awesome connection and his awesome ability to stand up to that challenge this is one of his big ten tests this is actually his final test he runs without hesitating and he goes to do it and we know at the last second hashem said don't don't sacrifice him you did everything you were supposed to and now i know how how beloved you are how special you are and indeed you will have future offspring

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1. 0:01thank you everyone for joining tuesday incredible always always to get together for this and uh…
2. 6:01will also only be in the merit of the bowing like it says who you talk…
3. 12:18commit ourselves pledge ourselves and push ourselves to stand where he wants us to stand to…
4. 19:11don't overlook those moments the moments of bitter the moments where you tell yourself to step…
5. 24:56and on this type of commitment all of our sparring quote aposic into him for for…
6. 31:04just to put our work aside for shabbos there's so many levels to bite our tongue…
7. 37:12and then he says and let me tell you how great it is time ends the…
8. 42:51and so he sat there waiting but his secretary has got by his attendant said to…
9. 49:05understand it all but first we're committed to do it and when our rabbis our torah…
10. 55:29he said that's where his sukkah went i ask you do you think he didn't care…

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