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Can You Make Space for My Struggle? Why Yaakov Had to Marry Leah

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Rabbi YY Jacobson

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so today's class is dedicated in loving memory of an avocado yes in honor of his yard side dedicated by his children siblings nieces and nephews the entire Tiffin Brown family and thank you very very much should be an eternal source of light and inspiration I also want to dedicate today's class in the loving memory of Miriam Sussman [clears throat] whose funeral was yesterday was tragically killed in an accident on Sunday so we dedicate today's class and her loving memory and in tribute to her entire grieving family including our secretary her her daughter Mrs Einhorn and the entire mushbacha we're all very very sorry and amokum is not many words it's a time of grief but we wanted to dedicate this class to her light and her love and her Eternal inspiration okay so we'll use the hummus today and I want to begin if you could take the blue kamashem there's more in the back if you need if you could turn to parishes page uh page 83. page 83 purchase this is boracious of Genesis chapter 29 verse 11. foreign it's page 83 if you have another one you can go to by Yates let's remember the context so jacovino took Ace of's blessings and parishes told us he identifies himself as his brother his father gives him the blessings even though they were reserved for Ace of thinking that he's asav and when ASA finds out he's extremely extremely upset Rifka tells Yakov that your brother wants to kill you you should run away and yaakov leaves where his parents lived and he travels to a place called haran it's actually today you have a city called harun h-a-r-a-n which is in southern turkey and that's associated with the ancient

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