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Vayishlach: The Tribulations and Salvations of Yaakov Avinu Portends Chanukah Based on Ohr Gedalyahu

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Rabbi Daniel Glatstein

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so let us begin. We're going to speak about a subject that is not recorded anywhere. Not on Torah Anytime, not on Shas Illuminated, not on podcast. This is not a sheer that This sheer I gave such a long time ago. It was before the electricity was discovered even. There were there was no technology back then. And We're going to try to enhance and elaborate on a very interesting observation on Parshas Vayishlach primarily and on Parshas Vayeitzei as well. Okay, so let us begin. We're going to start with the comments of the Sforno. The Sforno is Parshas Vayeishev. And the Sforno tells us Vayeishev Yaakov Av Vayeishev Yaakov B'Eretz Canaan Eilah Toldos Yaakov. These are the Toldos of Yaakov. Yosef So the Sforno says, what does it mean these are the children of Yaakov because it doesn't list the children of Yaakov. It just talks about the happenings, so to speak. Rabbi Masquits, if you could mute the phone line so I don't hear the background noise. Thanks. Um So Ma Eilah Sorry, if I could ask everybody on the phone to just kindly mute mute your phones. Thank you. Eilah Toldos Yaakov. Somebody else may not be muted, but I'm muted. Oh, no, I'm the phone line. Okay. Um Ma I Raav the happenings V'Yaldei Yom and the occurrences of the day of love. Achar Sheyashav Sham, after he lived there, meaning what happened Yaakov after he lived there. Ki May'oz Sheyatzah MiBeis Aviv When Yaakov left

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