If You'd Only Know Who You Are | Sefas Emes Parsha Va'era

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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.

Good morning everybody. Please download your source sheets. So we can begin. [clears throat] We'll begin momentarily. Okay. Beautiful. the source sheets cuz we're going to be studying uh text inside, fascinating text. You can also open the source sheet on the screen over there it says view source sheets. You will figure it out. Pleasure to have all of you. I'm very excited about today's class. It's a uh teaching that I came across yesterday. I was studying it and learning it yesterday. And I got very excited about it. Spoke to my soul. So, I decided I want to teach it today even though I have to say I don't understand everything. [snorts] It's a very cryptic a lot of cryptic insights here that have a lot of depth to them. So, I can't tell you I understand everything. I'm just saying this as a introduction, but at least we can take a stab, right? At least we can begin the journey and open ourselves up to some of the ideas that we're going to be exploring today. Let me tell you about the structure of today's class. We're going to be learning inside a Medrish Rabba, the opening of Parshas Va'eira. It's a long section. Medrish Rabba Shmais Parsha Vav, the sixth chapter of Medrish Rabba of the book of Shmais, which is the opening of Parshas Va'eira. It's a Medrish that focuses on two people, two personalities in Jewish history, King Solomon and Moses, HaMelech and Moshe Rabbeinu. And then we're going to be learning a interpretation on this Medrish, how to understand this Medrish in the Sfas Emes. Sfas Emes, which is the great Hasidic work written by the second Rebbe of the Ger Hasidic dynasty known as Rabbi

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1. 0:01Good morning everybody. Please download your source sheets. So we can begin. [clears throat]…
2. 6:59You could see me and hear me clearly, right? California, how are we doing? We're doing…
3. 13:19forbidden. And here I should emphasize just in parentheses, later Rabbeinu Gershom famously in the 10th…
4. 19:34inside the Midrash continues, that this is the reason why we see in Mishlei that Hamelech…
5. 25:42remember the song, "No, no, no. I will not let them go." Um Moshe may shama…
6. 31:48person's soul is rooted in the deepest places of existence and beyond existence. Expression and madras…
7. 37:29that describe a very interesting situation. And the person who it describes would have not known…
8. 43:37would have gotten, they would have done it much better. If I know that I'm charity…
9. 49:49everything that a person needs to do during their life If so, it doesn't make sense…
10. 56:06And this fellow saw the food, and he really wanted to uh bring home food, and…

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