Parsha Shiur: Vayishlach

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Welcome to this week's paras. I'm looking forward to share a few very beautiful ideas with you. The first relates to um a well-known episode in this week's para. But I want to begin by making reference to a late uncle of my wife, Mr. Joe Reed. Why? Because there is a phrase we use in the family, the Joe Reed effect. What does that mean? You see, Joe Reed, Uncle Joe was a wonderful person. He was a tremendous uh ascant involved in very many worthy causes. He was the president of Henadas causes. He was the president of Henadas here in London for decades and uh ran and was very involved in the JSSM the Jewish secondary school movements uh which has been in is one of the main schools and he was a very communally minded person and he had a gift had many gifts but one of his gifts was that he could speak to anybody about anything and he could talk to you in your language so if you liked to he would talk to you in Tyra if you like politics politics business sports whatever it was the Joe Reed effect and I think about at in reference to Russian in this week's So says your your master your servant Jacob gave him love on Gi I've been living with love on and I've been delayed until now says Rashi famously is what was the message that Yakov was giving as love I was living with with this love with this love on this Russia nevertheless I kept 613 mitzvah and I didn't learn from his evil weights there endeth the famous Rashi. It's very

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2. 3:05seems like a strange way to it's it's certainly not the Joe Reed effect. If you…
3. 5:39minion now." When he was reflecting on that afterwards, Khaduk said that this Shamish only did…
4. 8:16that. Why does it mean what does it mean that what was Jacob worried about? So…
5. 10:49some sort of worthy attribute and he himself doesn't have it even though this person has…
6. 13:58person may have that is the nature of an elevated person. He's always worried about his…
7. 16:31who were busy day and night in business form was the greatest was the great of…
8. 19:05from them and say they got the status of which the say you got to burn…
9. 21:38in a town that I need to help that town and show gratitude that I'm living…
10. 24:12After that first refusal from felt that he still he needed a group of boys. So…

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