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Rabbi Ori Strum

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All right, welcome back. Um, okay. Paris Bishma. So, what's interesting about Yus is that similar to his son-in-law, he had seven names. Yro had seven names. What were they? Raul, yes, because he loved the Torah. He was friendly or so many names. Yet, the Torah tells us heard. So, it chose one of those seven names. It chose one of those seven names. It chose Jethro. Kind of wish the Torah had wrote Jethro. Jethro have a lot of the names that we write in Hebrew when they're translated into English, they have like a certain connotation. Um, so Je like Yesh Isaiah, you know, different things like that. Schlommo and Solomon. So, it's funny. I Yro to Jethro is one of my personal favorites in terms of like the transition to the English. I just think Jethro is just such a cool >> Jethro. >> Is that a real person? >> Oh, >> Oh, >> before my time. >> A real band. >> You guys are outdating me. Before my time is claimed. So, the description that the Torah gives of Israel is that he was the priest of Mijon. He ranked to the highest of rankings in terms of Mijon. We also know that Israel was one of the advisers of of parro. And it's interesting that the Torah uses this title over here when it talks about could have just said Yro heard. What did he hear? We know what he heard. Rashi tells us he heard about the great the splitting of the sea. He heard about

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  1. 0:01All right, welcome back. Um, okay. Paris Bishma. So, what's interesting about Yus is that similar
  2. 2:02>> not over, >> right? Well, sure, the battle's not over. Um, so I want to
  3. 4:05that is the ultimate goodness. And I want to share with you an idea I had
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  5. 8:39is saying >> yes correct is in that realm of and we have that ability to
  6. 10:44of it's big in and connecting. Yeah. So, it's >> Yeah, >> I heard this over
  7. 12:51now it's true yeah that concept but in terms of the fact that I'm never quite
  8. 15:28wanted to have that malik saw the same thing and that's what they were attacking us
  9. 17:34us that it was like a har right the har was lifted like a kagas like
  10. 19:39what specifically happened with Amalik right after the Jewish people left is that right he tried

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