The path to spiritual success: Climb Jacob's Ladder

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Yom Tov Glaser’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

[Music] Shulman welcome to practical spirituality here in Asia tour in the old city of jerusalem overlooking the Western Wall so this week's parser which is called by Yeats a is talking about is called by Yeats a is talking about when when Jacob decides he's gonna run for it which makes sense because he just you know told the birth rights he didn't steal he sold the birthright and then stole the blessings of his father Isaac and he's running for it but while he's running for it he has to go to sleep it's night time he goes to sleep and he winds up going into this heavy duty prophetic experience and he envisions a ladder now what's that ladder what's ladder now what's that ladder what's going on with that ladder so it says that the ladder was moot savart saw which is interesting we'll deal with that in a minute that Ben LAN the a ladder was going towards the earth and you why do we have to deal with that that was going towards the earth have you ever seen a ladder going towards the earth yeah Judy on the earth like it ladders don't go towards the earth they sit on the earth but this one was going towards the earth and it climbed up to the heavens and it says

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1. 0:01[Music] Shulman welcome to practical spirituality here in Asia tour in the old city of jerusalem…
2. 3:36ladder you're on and and someone in that generation to get on the ladder you know…
3. 7:15in their 40s and I was teaching it was a marriage class and I asked them…
4. 10:50together I'm like gave it you know keep your money and but like this guy was…
5. 14:57daughters how many do you only have five daughters and you watch each daughter assimilate and…
6. 18:44things just like you just faceplant yeah but um anyway but once the jew once American…
7. 22:21meaning whatever you'd say this hour to everybody obviously not each individual but to whatever you'd…
8. 26:37can't go but he laid there in bed saying I'm never walking in there again and…
9. 30:17idolaters most of them are not adulterers there are some that are but the ancient tribes…
10. 33:56and so they just it's stuck so ever since then you're called yo can done amazing…

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