The Story of Jacob & Esau: What No Body Told You! Secrets of Kabbalah

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

this is a very intense moment right now in the story of yaakov he's leaving Lavon and all of the difficulty that that entailed he's not having an easy time right now and he's coming back into Israel and this is not a happy ending to by any means to his story and he finds out that asaph is coming to meet him with 400 men now if we know how the story ended in before pastors we we know that ASAP wanted to kill yaakov and said I'm going to wait until my father dies and kill him or he even sent actually leaving wait he said he sent elifas to kill him and then luckily fortunately for yaakov did not kill him um so now yaakov is faced with this threat of asaph coming with 400 men to attack him and his family and all what he has and it's a very intense moment and we see him interestingly enough we see him preparing himself for this confrontation in a few different ways so first of all the verse says that he was afraid and that's what we're going to address we're going to address the idea of yaakov being afraid yaakov decides to send Messengers angels two different two different interpretations whether they were just regular Messengers or whether they were in fact angels and he also sends a lot of gifts to give asaph to appease him that's one of the things that uh that yaakov does now it says over here when he finds out that Ace was coming at him Yakov was not just afraid but very

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