Can I Ever Make Peace with Myself?

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

today it's in southern turkey on the border of turkey syria and iraq northern iraq where he remains with his father who with the man who would become his father-in-law also his uncle lovan for 20 years there he marries leia and marries rachel and billa and zilpah and most of his children are born over there by love on all of his 11 children including dina's daughter besides one and finally after 20 years in the home of love on yakiv together with rachel and leia decide it's time to leave and they leave yaakov is now moving with his entire entire entourage back to eretz israel where he came from back to the home where he grew up in the home of his parents it's at this point when vayishlach opens up yaakov decides to do something that is quite unique he decides to reach out to his brother 20 years they haven't had any contact as far as we know according to ghazal it's not only 20 years it's 34 years because we have a missing gap of 14 years in the history of yaakov which our sages explained he spent at the yeshiva of shayma navar and the way from his parents home so that would make it another 14 years of 34 years according to the homicide straight text it's certainly two decades he sends messengers to asev reaching out for camaraderie reconciliation peace as he puts it i came to find favor in your eyes the messengers come back and they say we arrived to you we came to your brother to asap he's actually advancing towards you with 400

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1. 0:32today it's in southern turkey on the border of turkey syria and iraq northern iraq where…
2. 6:14and he begs him and asap takes it ace of offers to travel together with him…
3. 12:23he has his wives he has all of his servants and of course enormous amount of…
4. 18:33so even if you have heard 500 000 interpretations for aposic you've still got a hundred…
5. 24:44changed the name that was just changed your name is not yakube name which is the…
6. 30:55asev so in the first explanation i'm using the story yakovino the way it mirrors our…
7. 36:59because it's the only way we can justify the name yaakov the first thing we know…
8. 43:12he has done this he squirreled me out he outsmarted me manipulated me this was sly…
9. 49:18if only i did not experience these circumstances when i was five when i was 10…
10. 55:27way of saying of course you're alone the person you're struggling with is yourself you're alone…

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