Rabbi David Kaplan - Weekly Torah Portion: Mikeitz - Part 1

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

and he's by the nile the nile is the egyptian uh is the what the dollar is to americans and now was the egyptians you know the dollar says in god we trust you know but in small print on the doctor says in god we trust somebody should put in there but the dollar we worship you know so the dollar was we trust hashem but the dollar is is a dollar is the deity so the the uh the what he called uh uh um paro para has a dream and uh he he dreams by the or the or and uh he he dreams by the or the or what we call the nile now uh the first the first idea here is we're going to see and this is a basic torah concept we're going to see that as a result of this dream you'll say it's going to come out of prison okay now here is a very basic point of confusion by many people what comes first the chicken or the egg in other words paro had a dream and therefore yosef came out of prison to interpret his dream right that's one way

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1. 0:36and he's by the nile the nile is the egyptian uh is the what the dollar…
2. 3:40so our attitude that's our attitude you know there was a there's a a remarkable incident…
3. 6:43wakes up against the dream now the word ok in hebrew the word o ketz in…
4. 9:46actually when you actually decide get up in c first you're not in a position of…
5. 12:48patching the the mattress i can't patch the kid right now i could patch that mattress…
6. 15:53and each dream is a symbol of the the the the downtrodden overcoming the powerful that's…
7. 18:56most basic staples of a diet is a lot closer to the interpretation than daughters and…
8. 21:58if he does there should be fingerprints right and then and and then nine jews should…
9. 25:03means empty that's why a youth is called a naar he's empty he doesn't have life…
10. 28:08see you soon says no it's not me hashem so the commentary is how did yosef…

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