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Parsha Yisro: "Anochi" Why the Opening of the Ten Commandments is an Egyptian Pronoun

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Rabbi YY Jacobson

Parsha Yisro: "Anochi" Why the Opening of the Ten Commandments is an Egyptian Pronoun

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okay good morning everybody and welcome thank you for gracing US Today's class is dedicated nishas and a loving memory of Hanah bdavid from Sydney Australia in her loving memory a woman of endless compassion patience dedication dedicated by her daughter and Grandson on the occasion of her second Y and may her love accompany always and be a source of light and inspiration for you the whole family and all of the PE all of our people amen the class is also dedicated in loving memory of Rabbi Aram Feldman and root worth and schling by their family thank you very much and may their memory be a source of light and empowerment for you and the family and all of the Jewish people and may we see the Fulfillment of the prophecy stays before purm about Esther Ohad about her going into the darkness you mean yeah yeah it's there in P the purm section so everybody knows that pares y this week's para is really in many ways the fundamental par of the Torah I mean every par is fundamental but it certainly has the story that shaped all of Jewish history and all of Jewish existence and is really the pivotal moment of History what we call mmed Hari the moment that the Jewish people stood at Mount Si and received aeras the Ten Commandments and the Torah which all happens here in p and what's interesting though is theu of the paraa because the first half of

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  1. 0:02okay good morning everybody and welcome thank you for gracing US Today's class is dedicated nishas…
  2. 6:07interesting is the name of the par you would think that the portion of mat would…
  3. 12:27copts it now survives only as a language that's used for Liturgy like for poems and…
  4. 18:37what the madas is teaching us now this is a very moving Insight the father doesn't…
  5. 24:43Egyptian but the truth is that what the med is telling us here goes One Step…
  6. 30:56somehow out of the domain of Holiness and there's no way I could communicate to them…
  7. 37:04eagle it's a little different but the egg was warmed sufficiently and one day a little…
  8. 43:24has to go down into that space so we really have to make that very Discerning…
  9. 49:28really beds but it was like you know straws mats of straw there were no drawers…
  10. 55:42the horse in the water until the water becomes dirty and murky with mud and then…

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