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Women's Emor Class - When We Allow Our Pain to Harden Our Hearts Into Stone

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Rabbi YY Jacobson

Women's Emor Class - When We Allow Our Pain to Harden Our Hearts Into Stone

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I want to welcome everybody. Thank you for gracing us with your presence on this beautiful morning. Next week is on Tuesday. We will also have a class on the auspicious day of the next Tuesday. We will be on schedule as usual. Today's class is dedicated by Raymond Rothschild in memory of his beloved parents Shashana Batrifka and Yaka Ben Roa. After losing everything in their Roa. After losing everything in their youth, two resilient souls found each other with God's grace, created a beautiful family of five children left a legacy of love, blessing, and inspiration and may their souls always be with you empowering you with all the blessings and abundance. And thank you so very much. Today's class is also dedicated by Khani and Yitzka Kakayen Kaplan in honor of the birth of their grandson Nusen Zev on the 17th of to Minda and Hesh on the 17th of to Minda and Hesh Jacobitz. May you raise him with many blessings and thank you very very much. What we're going to be addressing today is a very uh painful and actually startling story that we encounter in paras at the end of the para and it comes completely unexpected. It jumps out on you unexpectedly. It's not something that emerges it would It's not something that emerges it would seem from the previous stories from the context. It's not a collective rebellion or defiance as a result of despair or fear or dread. It's a story of one person, one individual whom we never heard of. And it doesn't seem to belong to the narrative, to the continuation of the narrative. At first glance, it's just one of these stories. You know, it's very dramatic, perplexing, painful, does not have a happy ending. When you dig a little deeper, you start unraveling layers of

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