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Vayechi: The Ben L’Ashri on Why Leah's Death is Not in the Torah

2.4K views · Jan 2, 2026

Rabbi Daniel Glatstein

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Good morning everyone. Shalom shalom. Thank you everyone for coming. It's a great and joy to see everyone this morning. I know many of you came from far and wide. I want to acknowledge my friend Gary Shapiro who came all the way from Sydney, Australia. Wow. >> And then from Natana he drove 2 and 1 half hours this morning with his son Ben who it's his bar mitzvah. So in a in accordance with the effort so should Hashem answer all of our I want to take this opportunity to thank my dear friend Renas and Wler for organizing this trip literally I don't want to say uh he worked 16 hours a day he worked 24 hours a day people messaging him literally all hours of the day uh for many weeks about this trip we have upcoming trip at the end of January to the north and to Kron if you want to join that and I want Thank for all of his efforts to help bring to should stand up for him and his whole family. >> Okay, I want to take the opportunity. This is the 49th yard site of the saddic of Ranana. In honor of the occasion, we published a new edition of the Benla Ashri. We call it Bhaat Sadik. And people want to know what exactly it is. It is word for word the safer benri. But in the original three volume edition of ben ashri there are many long complicated pieces many very complex

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