Women's Vayeitzei Class: "Behold, She Is Leah!" Why Yaakov Had to Marry Leah

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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.

Welcome everybody and thank you for gracing us. Today's class is dedicated by Rabbor and Rahul Kaya Kagaritki in loving memory of Avdar Ben who passed away on the second day of Kislave and may his soul continue to be a source of love and light and inspiration for you and the entire family and all of our people. and only have happy and good people. and only have happy and good news and thank you very very much for your partnership and friendship and may amen I also want to mention and dedicate the class for a complete and speedy recovery to many long happy prosperous joyous serene years full of productivity and abundance and thank Thank you. and thank Thank you. So today we are going to Ber Hashem explore one of those stories that uh seems to be what you might call in English a hairraising story perplexed enigmatic really difficult to understand. It almost looks like there's a lot of pettiness or just very primal anger, resentment or just very primal anger, resentment and uh it's written that way maybe so that it can uh really trigger us or or challenge us or arouse us. As I once told you, it's interesting that in the Tanakh, I don't even think there's one story that ever ends with a good feeling. Um, you know, it's not a bedtime story where, you know, Cinderella makes it out on the top and you could now fall asleep into a tranquil tranquil uh slumber. And

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1. 0:00Welcome everybody and thank you for gracing us. Today's class is dedicated by Rabbor and Rahul…
2. 6:09That's Genesis 29:22. I translate in English, not because I suspect that nobody here knows the…
3. 12:23extend 100 ft I would run for my life. Call Hatsah call Miss Callim call I…
4. 18:33food." And what did you say? Yes, I'm Asov. Whoa. You guys are impressed with Leia,…
5. 24:50of Yakov or Leia or Raul or Bill or Zilpa, but certainly Yakov. What's the nature…
6. 31:01can't see something in somebody else. That is a fact. I could see that somebody is…
7. 37:20she cried so much that part of her eyebrows fell out. It says later that Hashem…
8. 43:30the second line there was a crisis that she was feeling an exist existential moral crisis.…
9. 49:45womb he was already gravitating to idolatry that's what Msiah looks like heaven forbid this is…
10. 55:59my regulated presence and demeanor and how safe you could feel with me. So from personality…

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