Parshas Vayechi: The Abarbanel and the Historic Significance of the Blessings of Yaakov

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

exactly is the uh um I remember when I was in third grade so I had to memorize I could barely read a possible Columbus had no idea what it meant but I could tell you the whole thing about pets so uh unfortunately since that time I'm not sure until I learned this subject not sure how much higher my understanding is versus active went um and I would venture to say that unfortunately uh that goes for a lot of us and uh so what we want to try to understand is what exactly are these sukim trying to accomplish because um to some of the brothers yakovino gives words of bracha he Praises them and to others and to others there are no words of there are no words of Praise instead they seem to be words of criticism words of chastisements and at the very end of the breakfast the last posic says koleila Israel these are all the tribes of schname muster 12. the zoys this is what their father spoke to them and he blessed them is each one according to their brother he blessed them so Rashi is bothered by the question what do you mean he blessed them um he did as many of them that he didn't bless Ruben tanakya one word of blessing Reuben just got criticism did not get one nice word Sherman just got critique lady in fact most of the shwatim I don't know about you I'm not sure if that's really debate you have to understand what that means you know done is a should be finally done done you're a snake what is that is that a broccoli is it a koala is that is that rebuke sarasi says I would think that he did not bless

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