Vayigash: Approaching God | Rabbi Ariel Mizrahi

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

Okay, good morning everyone. Thank you for joining us on this beautiful Friday morning as we are starting together. We know my friends that the Torah can be studied and understood on many different levels. There is the simple story and what actually happened. There's rais dash, there's sword, different layers alluding. And today we're going to study together from the nativo shalom. The nivo shalom from the nativo shalom. The nivo shalom is going to take us on one puk. We're not even going to do the whole puk. We're just going to touch on one idea of the puk, but basically he's going to show us how a puk could actually be alluding to something that's teaching us a lesson for life. nothing to do with actually the story and the Torah talks in code a lot of time so it's telling us the simple story but it's through the story that we could also it's telling because of the words that it chose to use so we can learn other ideas as well use so we can learn other ideas as well so take as an example opening of says and approaches him who is him pronounse approaches this man who he doesn't know is yet. He approaches him and he says, "Please, my master, let me speak something in your ear, let let me speak something in your ear, let me tell you one word, please." And the midash comes along and says that when it says what that actually is going on is not just he approached Yseph but the Midrash says that Yehuda approached God. Yehuda didn't only approach Ysef. Yehuda is approaching Hashem in prayer. And we learn in this puk many many ideas

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2. 3:08know there is a a rule in life, a very very useful idea to know my…
3. 6:16person. When you can do that, when you're not judging, when you're not biased, when you're…
4. 9:26we're supposed to use the these 20 minutes of the pre- prayer however long it is…
5. 13:07says the shalom is be adon be adon. Realize that Hashem Adon Hashem's name is Adoni,…
6. 16:15it's still selfish. It's for you to get close to Hashem. It's not ideal. It's inherently…
7. 19:23I want it. I work hard. And you have to remember it's not about you. Aid…
8. 23:02problem. There is a problem in your service, it's something to work on. If we are…
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10. 29:25home to remember the destruction. We do different things. We break a glass. But this is…

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