Parshas Vayeitzei with Reb Chaim Kramer

What’s said in this shiur

The opening of this shiur, in BRI Breslov: The Breslov Research Institute’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

Shalom. Welcome to the weekly breast of parashia. This week coming week is story of Jacobu. He left his parents laid down on the ground. He had a dream of a ladder reaching to heaven, but it was firmly rooted on the ground. And he went to Lov his uncle. Loven was Rifk's brother. He went there. Love had two daughters, Ro and Leia. And Jacob ended up marrying them and uh bringing forth the Jewish nation, 12 tribes. And then he worked for love. He worked 14 years for his wives because of the tricks to love him. Then he worked another six years full of them where he gathered all his sheep, possessions, whatnot. Then he fled Lam go back to his parents. That's the summary of the para. And actually the para, every para has something relevant to us today. Yakov had a dream. He dreamt that he saw Hashem. He dreamt it was a ladder reaching to heaven which is what his goal was to serve Hashem to become a spiritual person. But the latter was firmly grounded. It was in the ground. And many times explains that you cannot truly rise spiritually if you're not grounded and realize and recognize what this world is all about. There's a lot of frustrations, a lot of [snorts] um challenges that we face almost on a daily basis almost. And how do we rise above it? I'm not looking for the material. I'm looking for a spiritual life. The material by definition is limited. It's whatever I have or whatever I see, whatever I can gather. So it's a limited type of life. Spiritual has no boundaries. I can rise and rise and I can reach

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1. 0:03Shalom. Welcome to the weekly breast of parashia. This week coming week is story of Jacobu.…
2. 1:04because of the tricks to love him. Then he worked another six years full of them…
3. 2:35almost. And how do we rise above it? I'm not looking for the material. I'm looking…
4. 4:10power. And the satisfaction that we could feel is beyond anything material that we can gain.…
5. 5:10Because he went on to love's house. Now Lovelin is a character that we all know…
6. 6:43another seven years 14 years Right. Yakov did it. Yakov knew what love was all about.…
7. 8:17about. And after he begat his wives and he begat his children, he began building the…
8. 9:20destruction. That's all. Don't tell me, show me something that Arabia has contributed. Don't tell me…
9. 10:53the nations at that time. Yakov built the Jewish nation. A nation that contributes to the…
10. 12:30Hashem exists. We want growth. We want spiritual growth, right? But right now we are contained…

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