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Parshat Vayechi - The Talmud says Yaakov didn’t die! How can you live in two worlds simultaneously?

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BRI Breslov: The Breslov Research Institute

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truly remarkable okay we are going to discuss the para Well, this para is and there's so much written on this para. Why is this a para sto? What a para means that you can't tell in the sacred Torah. It's not a beginning of a paragraph. There's not even a break. It's just on the same line as where parash ended begins. Rashi says that's because uh this was the the uh end of the uh the whole tufa the whole set time frame of the mo that they were the foundation of Israel and the safe is winding down and um well we all we Yak the last week came down to Mitzim and Yakinu had very very good very good years in in Mitzim in Gan. Rashi explains and all this far understand that those were the best years of his life because he had Yseph. He had all his his children together with him. Not only have all his children together with him, there were so many simas every day. There were births innness and mitzvah and everything. It was amazing how many children were born during that time that Yakuina was in Mitsay. Yes. 70 went down to Mitzim. As we said as as Yhv was born on the way into Mitsay at the gateway of Mitsay Main's mother and we multiplied tremendously well if you understand it Yakinu was really uh spending a lot of time with his family. Yakuinu would always lead the meals at when they had when they had a meal. So when they did the bits a pass when they broke bread, Yakinu of course would lead we know tried to stay away from Yaku

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