Parsha Gems - Vayeshev

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

welcome everyone this week we're going to discuss some of the debate aura of precious variation the struggle between Youssef and his brothers their eternal and external conflicts are not easily dismissable as just some some sort of sibling rivalry there was much more going on who gets privileges who gets the window seat and things like that their arguments were fundamental differences in the way they viewed the leadership of their family at present and of the descendants in the future wasn't some sort of simple sibling rivalry and salt when Youssef dreams of stalks and stars bowing down to him the stalks and stars bowing down to him the brothers were upset how dare this young brother of ours decide that he's gonna lord over us here he is the second youngest in a family fantasizing about leadership over his older siblings in addition when he related the dreams to his brothers in front of his father the Torah tells us that his father scolded him and it said what is this dream may you have joined ma kilometer kilometer Yakov scolded Yosef are we to come and your mother and your brothers to bow down to you to the ground because he wanted to make dismiss it so that the brothers shouldn't be upset with him but the Torah tells us

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1. 0:00welcome everyone this week we're going to discuss some of the debate aura of precious variation…
2. 2:02there's a beautiful illustration a story which tries to explain what the point is here many…
3. 4:06reluctantly his father told him that he was married before the war and he had a…
4. 6:08reassure me that everything is OK Yosef set out to find them but got lost he…
5. 8:12us vessels British warships violated United States waters and interfered with American ships as they entered…
6. 10:14plotted to kill him often we see people who want to approach us and to make…
7. 12:16these two stories both these women had visions and though and though their methodology was unconventional…
8. 14:20recommendation because he had been his Roth the answer of Leibowitz for a letter and Dede…
9. 16:22mind then you're not gonna do anything nasty to cause pain to others like Tamar but…
10. 18:24he and it was precedes each of these qualities each one is mentioned separately and it…

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