Yaakov's Dream - Part 1 - Rabbi Dr. David Gottlieb

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The opening of this shiur, in Hidabroot - Torah & Judaism’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

I okay we're on page 145 this is the story of jacob's journey to find a wife and I'm focusing on the dream that he had a I'm focusing on the dream that he had a very famous dream with the ladder and angels so I'm going to start at verse 13 and we'll go through it today and tomorrow and assuming we finish it before the end of tomorrow then I'll do the preceding verses which are interesting introduction but not necessary to understand the content of the dream so starting in verse 13 I will translate for you the four verses that we're going to study I'm stars12 not 13 and he dreamt I mijo the ladder was set and he dreamt I mijo the ladder was set earthward and it stopped reached heavenward that translation is literally correct it's perfect and the old now the English gives you angels of god that's redundant an angel by definition is God's representative and the word in Hebrew is not angel the word in hebrew is my lock which means agent sometimes people miss translate that word is messenger does not mean messenger it comes from the word malaha which means certain type of activity performance certain type of activity performance creative performance a lock Meads agent so the better translation is agents of God we're ascending and descending on it and behold Hashem was standing over him and he said I am a Shem God of Abraham your father and got Isaac the ground upon which you are lying to you i will give it an to your descendants your offspring shall be as the dirt of the

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1. 0:00I okay we're on page 145 this is the story of jacob's journey to find a…
2. 3:37Jones today you know why would you have it four times in one passage now at…
3. 7:18if you imagine seeing this you see a ladder coming down from heaven reaching the earth…
4. 10:53okay what else is a little funny here how good is your angelology how much do…
5. 14:27him for decades leaving at being replaced by external agents that's not in the text that's…
6. 18:42this is how Jacob remains connected to God so what is being told is you've been…
7. 22:17carefully the children to the whole nation coming out of him every one of them says…
8. 25:56one of the early Hasidic masters the knishes lady says if you hold that your fingers…
9. 29:34no so is what I'm doing right who's bothering him now his father Isaac's examples bothering…
10. 33:14going to be the one who gets it so the next night when God appears to…

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