The Secret of Rachel's Tomb: Why the Matriarch Was Buried on the Road

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

We're here for the yard site of Rahul Misha Ray Winer whose yard site is Monday night and Tuesday day this year which is Judas Kislv the 19th day of the Hebrew month of it's the day that the first kabad Reb was freed from imprisonment and it's celebrated all over the world. The fact that Dul Basmo's yard site is on this day means that there's a very special merit for this nishama for this soul happens to also be we're coming from Shabas Vayish the Torah portion that Jews all over the world just read this Shabas and in this Torah portion amazingly it speaks about Rahul and more specifically about the passing of Rahul Thomas Rael and Rachel died and she was buried on the road to Ephra which is also known as Bethlehem. And it says that her husband Jacob, our father, erected a monument to her, which is very interesting because as you remember, we were here for the yacht side of Jerome. And one of his two names, his name is Yakov Schaw. So his name is one of his names is Yakov. So we have the name Yakov right here. And what's also incredibly interesting, Binyammen right here. Beyammen. Benjamin. We have the name Benjamin which is Ray's husband Benjamin Winer which is incredible. We have all these three names right here. Rojo Beyammen and Yakov all on this one page which was part of the Torah reading the Jews all over the world just read on Shabas bas. We're here to light a candle for your yard site. We want to let you know that your son Michael Rea speaks about you often and remembers you with love. And in your honor, we're going to actually

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1. 0:22We're here for the yard site of Rahul Misha Ray Winer whose yard site is Monday…
2. 3:17I want to tell you that your son, your beloved son, has a picture of you…
3. 6:36says that those uh years of work were just like days in his eyes. Now let's…
4. 9:48is that it was a sign of neglect, like outright parental neglect that Loven would even…
5. 12:27She wasn't going to be able to stop that. She understood that she's not going to…
6. 15:39Hashem add to me bane a another son which is an you can call it we…
7. 19:05before she was buried on the side of the road. [snorts] She was not buried in…
8. 21:55And then we learn something exceedingly beautiful. Jacob reveals to Joseph the reason why Rahul was…
9. 25:11being punished right now and sent into exile. The temple was destroyed. They're being sent into…
10. 28:22be answered. So we see Rahul is the quintessential loving mother who will do anything for…

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