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Parsha Bshlach - Don't Implant Your Fears On Others

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Rabbi Yossi Bensoussan

Parsha Bshlach - Don't Implant Your Fears On Others

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very everyone I am okay so we're going to discuss something here that this that has tremendous ramifications um not just on ourselves but you'll see how far reaching it is and how how far it actually goes so let me just start off with the beginning of this week's it says the [Music] following so Hashem does something very interesting he makes first question is why is it saying really should say that God directed them but it just wanted to reinforce that no is the one who wanted to send them out it was decision he made he wanted to send them out so theuk tells us that the the way that God wanted to take him take him in a very in a roundabout path so for example I wasn't I'm not too strong geographically but I know Ed for example like over here where's Egypt Egypt is going to be on the west side right Egypt is on the west side of is so is here and Egypt is here so what did hasem do he didn't take him from here to here that's not what he did what did God do exactly as you did he took him South then after he took him South he took him all the way North and then from going north he took him brought down a little diagonally towards Southeast is is right here Egypt is right here why not just cross this way so God did not think it was appropriate

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  1. 0:01very everyone I am okay so we're going to discuss something here that this that has
  2. 2:04so Hashem says why maybe they're going to see there's going to be as they're traveling
  3. 4:47this is the first source for sarcasm in the Torah even through all the anxiety that
  4. 6:57by my just as a a fun fact here the r did not write a commentary
  5. 9:37very good so but he traveled went everywhere so he writes the following do you know
  6. 12:54specifically were the ones who were actually going to die but what's so amazing is tells
  7. 15:01to suffer but their Journey that was their salvation now why why do they need to
  8. 17:41them we know it's a problem but we struggle we struggle a lot with it but
  9. 19:49help you I'm here to support you so we also everything that we have is from
  10. 22:34differently than the Jewish people he could not have that same slave mentality psychology one of

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