A Cat Video from Outer Space | Rabbi Shlomo Farhi

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

December 11th, 2023. Big day for cat lovers. On that day, NASA, for the very first time ever, beamed a video from outer space to this planet. This video traveled 19 million miles. And you know what this video was? It was a 15-second video of an orange tabby called Taters chasing around a laser beam. That's what we sent from outer beam. That's what we sent from outer space, 19 million miles, to Earth. The pasuk tells us that Yehudah, in relating the command of Yosef, he says, "Horidu elai, bring Binyamin down to me. Ve'asimah einai alav, and I will place my eyes on him." What a fascinating expression. Normally, when we talk about looking at things, we say, "Vayar, he looked. Ve'histakel, and

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1. 0:05December 11th, 2023. Big day for cat lovers. On that day, NASA, for the very first…
2. 0:37beam. That's what we sent from outer space, 19 million miles, to Earth. The pasuk tells…
3. 1:07say, "Vayar, he looked. Ve'histakel, and he paid attention to it." We use those words. What…
4. 1:38My friends, it is that man, Yosef Hatzadik, who understands how challenging looking at something assur…
5. 2:09to control them. And then we need to pull them away. What if we learned from…
6. 2:39on something. You see, NASA decided to send a cat video from the heavens. All that…
7. 3:10if it's not, do I want to place my eyes on it? Try this for 1…

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