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Parashat Meiketz - Learn to forgive - Rabbi Alon Anava

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Rabbi Alon Anava

Parashat Meiketz - Learn to forgive - Rabbi Alon Anava

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okay because learning the weekly parasha is very nice but if I don't bring it down to action or I don't derive anything that out of it some type of a teaching that can affect me then I kind of miss the point so our sages teach us the main part of the learning is the actual act which means if I learn and I don't do anything then I kind of wasted my time I didn't I didn't get anything out of my learning if I now learn all the laws that have to do with kanuka and then in the evening I don't likee the minora and I don't follow all the laws that I learned then my learning was was a waste of time basically so same thing with learning the Paras if I just learn it to to see a beautiful story and to to get a impressed or maybe see some mystical thing behind it but I don't apply it to my world then then I'm missing the point is to take the teachings of the Torah and to apply it to my life cuz I want to get better in my service of God I want to get closer to to hasem I want to work on myself I want to refine myself now there's not it's not by chance that the weekly portion is divided technically one might one could say oh you know let me give you one long parasha and you'll learn it every day but we see that the par are are broken into weeks and the same way that the world was created in seven days and there's constantly this cycle that every week I start a new week so therefore also the

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  1. 0:01okay because learning the weekly parasha is very nice but if I don't bring it down
  2. 5:24and whoops from being a an inmate and a slave he becomes the second to the
  3. 10:38commentaries in our history he's called abarbanel and his first name isak abarbanel he's a very
  4. 16:38country nobody can buy bulk and actually sell it out so they have to buy through
  5. 21:58goes that they have a big party they he lets them go he gives them a
  6. 28:03job not as severe but his life was very very bad finally they tell him listen
  7. 33:28they'll be able to come back here and down kashem and completely transform the sin into
  8. 38:53know exactly he found out he saw that they did the right when he wanted to
  9. 44:58to work on this and we see that y was was totally working on this attribute
  10. 50:15diminish my ego and and I humble myself I'm able to actually see if I did

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