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פרשת ויחי תשפ"ו - הרב ברוך רוזנבלום בשיעור מרתק על סילוקם של צדיקים, יעקב יוסף ודוד - מבקשי ה' אלעד

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Rabbi Baruch Rosenblum

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This week's torah, called by the grace of God, is the torah, "Vaychai, the year of Teshuvah." We will dedicate the lesson to the healing of Rabbi Shlomer ben Eliza, to the healing of Avraham Yaakov Eliezer ben Zelda, Meir bar Kochava ben Esther, Elka, Davor, Shindel in Tekaha, the healing of [ __ ] ben Rachel, and to the rebirth of the soul of Mordechai ben Shaul, may God bless him. This week's torah, called by the grace of God, is the torah, "Vaychai, the year of Teshuvah." The torah deals with the silence of our patriarch Jacob and the righteous Joseph. At the beginning of the parsha, the Torah deals with the passing of our forefather Jacob. At the end of the last verses of the parsha, the Torah deals with the departure of the righteous Joseph. In the Haftarah read with the help of God on this Shabbat, the the Haftarah read with the help of God on this Shabbat, the Haftarah deals with the passing of King David. Today we would like to focus on this triangle of Jacob, Joseph, and David. A triangle that begins with our forefather Jacob at the beginning of the parsha, moves to Joseph at the end of the parsha, and ultimately connects us to King David. And we would like to connect the two vertices, Jacob on one side, Joseph on the other, together with King David . The parsha begins at

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  1. 0:00This week's torah, called by the grace of God, is the torah, "Vaychai, the year of
  2. 6:15They have a 33-year gap. The same thing is true for King David, who did not
  3. 12:36last lines, the Gemara says, King David said 103 chapters and did not mention the word
  4. 18:53aging the organ. There is a commentary on the Zohar called Or Hama. Its author is
  5. 25:08Jacob fled from Laban, who was a Hamite, while David fled from Saul, who was a
  6. 31:27He, called him a slave. Do not be afraid, O my lost Jacob. He called him
  7. 37:42When our father Isaac was three years old, our father Abraham made a feast, a great
  8. 43:56Philistine field and brought him back to Jerusalem. They both returned the ark to their place.
  9. 50:13and stone you with stones, what hurts more? Cursing hurts more than stones. Stones hurt less.
  10. 56:32this, he began to sing a psalm to David. The Mishbats of Zahav and Beshela the

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