Matching Faces | Rabbi David Sutton

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

[Music] Yosepha Sadi, the hero of when he meets his father Yakov Aino after 22 years of separation. Yakov says rea never dreamed I'm going to see your face. And the commentaries are bothered. It should just say I'd never see you. What's this about Yoseph Hassadik's face? And they explain that when a person comes down to this world, there person comes down to this world, there already exists a picture of him in a heavenly album. As it says Zot Adam, this is the book of the history of man. Every man's picture exists before he comes down to this world. And when he fulfills his mission properly, his picture down here matches his picture up there. Abraham, Abraham, Moshe, Moshe. They reached perfection. Their picture down here matched their picture up there. Yosef Sadi came down to Mitim and

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1. 0:00[Music] Yosepha Sadi, the hero of when he meets his father Yakov Aino after 22 years…
2. 0:32person comes down to this world, there already exists a picture of him in a heavenly…
3. 1:04there. Yosef Sadi came down to Mitim and in living in such a place of degradation,…
4. 1:34That act of refusal, that act of self-control gave Yose that countenance that his face down…
5. 2:04at me and they look at my pass and look at me and the lady says,…
6. 2:35me make all kind of moves and motions until finally they said, "Okay, we think it's…
7. 3:06make those moves. Control yourself and your picture down here will match your picture upstairs. [Music]…

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