How Torah Exposes Our Deepest Triggers - Parshat Yitro - Rabbi YY Jacobson

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You know, sometimes when we learn the Tyra, we read a story and we don't often notice that there is a subplot behind the story. And sometimes there is a sub subplot and the truth is the layers are endless because you're dealing with a text that is infinite. The PK says about her size is longer than the earth and her breath is more wide than the ocean than the sea and that's just a metaphor. So therefore it's not a pella. It's not strange when you have layers and layers and layers. So we're going to observe such a story today in the beginning of paras which at the surface it just looks like a charming and it's a nice story no question. And the literal interpretation is always the ba first basic level but then see deeper layers in it which conveys to us not just the story of your but really a story that continues to happen in our lives and it really deals with our connection with people especially family members and different types of family members and different people of different backgrounds and tribes. It deals a lot with phobios and stereotypes and the emotions it triggers inside of us, especially if they're unchecked and we don't become aware of the responses internally, consciously or unconsciously, but they often dictate a lot of our behaviors or reactions. Now,

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