Parashat Shemot: “Jewish Names Secure Israel’s Existence”

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The opening of this shiur, in Chacham Baruch Ben-Haim ztl’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

Shalom I would like to say a few words of Tora for parat shemot which is the new which beginning Begins the new book of shemot last week we finished the reading of the book of bid and now it is the book of shim beginning with the parasha of shot shemot means names and why do we call it this way because it why do we call it this way because it begins it begins with this verse is and these are the names of the people of Israel I mean I I don't know any book that begins and these are the names of this and that we must we must understand from that that there is something special with the names of the Jewish people of course it names of the Jewish people of course it has to we are talking about Jewish names what are the Jewish names first one Isen and then shimer of course from YF we understand that that there were two tribes because of his two children tribes because of his two children Ephraim and Ben let's not forget that ysf was the king or the vice Roy of Egypt which means he was the most powerful man on Earth at that time of course we are not going to repeat the whole story how yob Our Father Jacob left the land of Canaan to go to the land of land of Canaan to go to the land of Egypt with his children and they lived there for 17 years good years finally good years for our father Jacob who suffered most of his life and now the book begins by telling us the importance of the names Jewish names there is no question about it that

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1. 0:05Shalom I would like to say a few words of Tora for parat shemot which is…
2. 2:08land of Canaan to go to the land of Egypt with his children and they lived…
3. 4:48mitv in their hands lays the source for the existence of all the Jewish people all…
4. 6:52I'm waiting for the train and I wouldn't want to lose it so please uh as…
5. 9:29got fearing people thank God but I never heard about somebody having four names all together…
6. 12:03they are again and again written especially in the book of on our parasha we see…
7. 14:08at your hands we are still here and the fact that the Jewish people is still…
8. 16:42non-jews and they know that and they have said many times that the Jewish people is…
9. 18:45shemot is because to tell us that God really don't take don't make that mistake thinking…
10. 21:19people that without the Jewish people there is no existence to the world as we said…

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