Rochel — The Quintessential Yiddishe Mamme

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

and Samaria known as the West Bank. He allowed him to create a Palestinian police force, which ultimately developed into an infrastructure of terror. They daily launched terrorists and suicide bombers, and it created horrific scenes of bloodshed and violence in Israel and beyond. And as part of these agreements of the Oslo Accord was also the area of Bayt Lehem. Bayt Lehem, which is an enclave of Arabs, was supposed to be one of the regions that would be given over to Yasser Arafat's authority for him and his organization to have their what was known as autonomy. Of course, that included that unique site in Jewish history known as Kever Rachel, the burial place of Rachel. It was Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau shlita, at that time, the chief rabbi of Israel, a Buchenwald survivor, perhaps the youngest or one of the youngest Jewish children to survive the Holocaust. And Rabbi Lau was saved, came to Israel, ultimately became the chief rabbi of Netanya, then Tel Aviv, then chief rabbi of Israel. And he was a friend of Yitzhak Rabin, who was a very secular Jew. Dedicated Jew, but a very secular Jew. And Rabbi Lau met the Prime Minister of Israel, Rabin. I heard this from Rabbi Lau. And he told Yitzhak Rabin, he says, may eema lo nifradim. You don't separate from your mother. You don't throw your mother under the bus. Rachel, Rachel is the Jewish mother.

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1. 0:32and Samaria known as the West Bank. He allowed him to create a Palestinian police force,…
2. 2:35You don't just say goodbye to our mother and give the Kever Rachel to the foes…
3. 4:39of Egypt, he asks him for a favor. He wants him to take an oath that…
4. 6:43the Machpelah with the others and the most. Why didn't you do this for my mother,…
5. 8:47Hamachpelah." And Rashi says Yaakov told him, "You day I knew she yesh belibcha why. I…
6. 11:21Joseph now, 50 years after the event. Why did they not have this conversation all the…
7. 13:26Yaakov. He did not think that Yaakov was careless and cruel and selfish, chas v'shalom. He…
8. 15:29with Yitzchak. She's not with Rivka. She's not with Yaakov, and she's not with Adam and…
9. 17:34feeling the embrace the tears the hug of the Yiddisher mama of Rachel which would she…
10. 19:35deal. Let him go find his own life." Maybe some fathers would say that immediately that…

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