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Let's make a deal. If you like what I'm about to say, leave a like. So, listen to this incredible thought. We're called Jews. Where does this word come from? In Hebrew, it's what does even mean? So, the Midrash tells us it's really a contraction of two words. If comes from the word ever, the splitting of the sea. We are a nation that God has split the sea for. And so, we are named after this that God has split the sea for us. Now, this is an experience that happened to us. But why is it an experience that defines us? Why are we called after this defines us? Why are we called after this that God has split the sea for us? I mean look throughout history God has done a lot for his people. Why is it that out of everything we go after this name of every yam the splitting of the sea? So to understand this I want to ask the following question. Why did the sea even split in the first place? So the says something incredible. It says [music] that Ysef Sadi before he passed away, he told his brothers that they have to promise to him that they're going to make sure to take his body out of Egypt on their way out of Egypt. When the Jews are going to be leaving in a haste, they might forget Ysef behind. So
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- 0:02Let's make a deal. If you like what I'm about to say, leave a like. So,…
- 0:33defines us? Why are we called after this that God has split the sea for us?…
- 1:03haste, they might forget Ysef behind. So Ysef says, "You have to promise to me that…
- 1:40and he did not come to assimilate. The sea says in that merit I will split.…
- 2:11in the water she drew him out. Moshe comes from the word which means to draw…
- 2:43to Moshe. Now does he sees Moshe coming? What does he see? He see he sees…
- 3:13we learn to have that discipline then will Hashem split the way for us and bring…
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