Vayiten Lecha Ha'elokim 5728

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The opening of this shiur, in The Parsha In My Life - Rabbi Reuven Wolf’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

All right, everyone. Welcome. We are Thursday night. Last week, we didn't give a class. So, this is a continuation of what we began two weeks ago. Parat paros where our forefather patriarch um um Isaac is [snorts] blessing his son Yakov. But um he he he he I mean with intending to bless his son Asov. Esau but int but Jacob comes and uh Jacob our father the father of the Jewish people manages to like um um uh pretend that he's his brother and he receives this awesome blessings. Now we just we learned in the discourse already. I'm not going to review everything but we learned in the discourse earlier that these blessings are considered a higher than any other blessing in the Torah. So much so that Yakov acted in a way that was very very unlike him. Yakov is a man of truth. Yakov is a man of sincerity. He's very he's very very smooth, very un [snorts] um he he represents personifies truth. And therefore the fact that Yakov went ahead and acted in or or um presented himself in a way that was a little deceptive. Um although as we learn Rashi points out how Yakov was very careful not to tell a lie but still it wasn't the most uh cleanest uh action on Jacob's part was because there was no other way to get this blessing and these

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1. 0:04All right, everyone. Welcome. We are Thursday night. Last week, we didn't give a class. So,…
2. 6:18If that's the case, if blessing to his children is not adding anything to what God…
3. 12:36mission is going to blow up the whole thing. In other words, either energy that's going…
4. 18:43The unholy is being supported by whatever. So h how is the even even matching but…
5. 25:01Because when we count the unholy, we count the life force that that enliven them. What…
6. 31:11is separated from them because if the if the energy would actually what would happen in…
7. 37:29and it wouldn't be life anymore. It would become that's why it remains separated and that's…
8. 43:3510 spheros because the life force of the 10 spheres becomes encloded in them and becomes…
9. 49:45But if you want to do and you want to conquer the entire world, you're going…
10. 55:57that their entire that the marriage between yidden and hashem begins by matan tora that's when…

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