Rabbi YY Jacobson explores the Jewish concept of purpose in life.
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So sorry. So they're sitting Shiva this week on at their home 118 Grand View. So today I want to discuss we're going to discuss Baser Hashem one expression in Kish in this week's para that at the surface it just like seems like a cute or curious expression. When you go deeper, you see that this expression captures first of all a timeless historical truth and a timeless deep emotional and spiritual truth as relevant today as ever. If you go to your source sheets, it's one source sheet. Let's remember the historical context paras. This week we read two paras in Israel. It's only bullock. Here it's kukas and balik. So we catch up because the second day of shuis in Israel was just shabas and here it was the second day of shu. So they got an extra para when we didn't because for us it was the holiday for them. It was shabas. The second day of shuis was shabas. We celebrate shu. They don't. So they had a parasi. So we fell behind. And this week we finally catch up to the holy land. They do only balak. We do kukas and balak. The two parts of the Jewish people are synchronized. Maztov, we can always use uh synchronization and unity. The beginning of Balok is Balak was the king of a country called Moyov and Balak
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- 0:00So sorry. So they're sitting Shiva this week on at their home 118 Grand View. So…
- 5:59an entire sh an entire perspective on what happened in that story and what happens in…
- 12:27Essentially this difference of one letter is a stark contrast in an entire approach to life.…
- 18:53meaningless experience in nature. There was also a he couldn't understand the hornet and the purpose…
- 25:21it's meaningless. It's but it's like just inconsequential. And the Gmorra starts going through a list.…
- 31:54Stam to what do they call it? Herders who people who gather things. >> Yeah. It's…
- 38:20your suka on your port especially summer comes. SO DAVID IS CHALLENGING ALL THIS HE WASN'T…
- 44:44placed us here with these gifts, with these opportunities, with these challenges, with these resources, with…
- 51:11heart. I can grieve. I can cry. I can experience the pain. But I remain openhearted.…
- 58:11the earth. The Jewish people come and say, "Of course you need eyes. Of course you…
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