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

the story of jakov is the story of every Jew the Torah says and he went to number one why must the Torah tell us he left B we already know last week in the pass he was in B he should have simply said and he went to number two he went to it should have said he encountered a place the sun went down he took from the stones of the place and he placed it upon his head and he went to sleep on that place now why did he put the stones around his head he put the stones around his head because as Rashi tells tells us he was concerned for wild animals now we have many many hikers and Mountaineers over here in the class tell me something if you're afraid of wild animals is it going to help you to put a few Stones around your head first of all they can bite you on your foot number two is they can jump over the stones and they go under the stones and bite you on your nose so what's the point over here of putting Stones around your head now the commentaries have a big big difficulty understanding this person so there are those who say that in truth it doesn't mean only around your head but it means around the entire body but the main concern was the head now here in p number 11 it says he took from the stones of the place but if you look over here further on puic number 18 it says he got up in the morning and he took the stone the stone in the singular that he placed by his head was it one stone or many stones what happened over here the P

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1. 0:00the story of jakov is the story of every Jew the Torah says and he went…
2. 3:20I want Yakov to put his head upon me the stones on the top that were…
3. 6:30oath to he sad you will be righteous and you will not sin each one of…
4. 10:20intellect understanding perception spirituality the feet the lower part of the body deals with physicality materialism…
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6. 17:13man you have dominion over the animals what does that mean not only do we have…
7. 20:25godliness within the world and within your life you have the ability to unite Heaven and…
8. 23:33mat it all depends on how you deal with things that are low things that are…
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