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4 Jews: Marx, Spinoza, & Freud -- and Abraham

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Rabbi YY Jacobson

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the yeshiva dotnet the opening pisaq verse of parsha / laka is really one of those verses that has left and created one of the greatest impacts and influences in all of history as it begins a journey of one lone person to an unknown destination the partial f lakota Ginn's with the words viremia Schemmel Avraham Hashem says Avram Abraham Leclerc oh my art Sakuma milada the colony base of Viva L ha or 'it's a share our echo literally translated go to you from your land from your birthplace from the home of your father to the land which I will show you of Rama V new who is 75 years old at the time he's not called Avraham yet or avi know our Father or Abraham he's not a father nor is he Abraham of Romney's Avram Allah vase regime M without the hay of ROM not Avraham I'm using that name simply because of what would happen later on in the story he hears the call and he obeys he together with his spouse ara and together with their nephew and their entire enter aaj they leave a place called Karan and off he goes on this journey this journey would be the beginning not only of a new life and not only of a new chapter in history but of an entire that's the beginning of the birth of an entire new nation that would be charged to create a paradigm shift in human consciousness in human civilizations in human civilization and

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  1. 0:00the yeshiva dotnet the opening pisaq verse of parsha / laka is really one of those
  2. 5:55where you were born so the next stage is leave your birthplace and then not only
  3. 12:35geographical commandment but also what you might call an existential commandment this is not just an
  4. 18:58somebody once said the number of Jews is less than a statistical error on a Chinese
  5. 25:24and as I told you you'll be the judge of the nature of that impact our
  6. 31:54come on II I'm afraid to say you also observe the Shabbat you do it very
  7. 38:30the communist regime in the Soviet Union after the Bolshevik Revolution hundred years ago 1917 which
  8. 45:05evidence the impact of finances of money of ownership on people psychology and behavior is obvious
  9. 51:22there's absolutely no choice and therefore they don't deserve a punishment he says I don't mean
  10. 57:51framework in which they will live but that's the key it will constitute the framework in

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