Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz - Weekly Torah Portion: Parshat Vayishlach

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yeah we know that uh jacob avino uh has been away uh from his parents home for actually 36 years if you've got the chronology he was 63 years old when he took the blessings from asif not a young man 63 years old he then spent 14 years still in eric israel in the yeshiva of shame and aver getting ready to uh confront the challenges of gullus challenges of gullus and uh he was a total of 20 years in lovan's house seven years he worked for uh rachel which he got leia at the end then seven more years he worked for rachel and then six years in terms of building up his economic base and we're going to see it took him another two years till he finally gets reunited but now he's been gone for 14 and 20. so it's 34 years and he's returning to the land of israel and all of a sudden he hears that his brother asav is still angry at him and there's an army of 400 men who are there's an army of 400 men who are trying to kill him and yaakov sends all sorts of gifts and he's going to encounter asa in the in the flesh now it's interesting that there actually is a mach lokas among commentaries ultimately based on ghazal did yakov act correctly in sending ace of all of these gifts because the truth of the matter is that some commentaries take the position that had yaakov not shown off his wealth and his power and what he's accomplished asap might have forgotten about yaakov

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1. 0:31yeah we know that uh jacob avino uh has been away uh from his parents home…
2. 4:35gift giving which is compromise be nice conciliation that is step one plan b be ready…
3. 8:40rejection as a young person whatever whatever it is when he's trying to sell his paintings…
4. 12:44if somebody's a bad influence you may have to banish them but you don't get rid…
5. 16:48honor any respect now again the ramban points out it depends on the time and the…
6. 20:51have the divine promise because of my sins jacob said he didn't sin right very excellent…
7. 24:56question but yaakov says i kept the 613 commandments in lovan's house isn't that a direct…
8. 29:08so the before should ask the question isn't this redundant asap was his only brother my…
9. 33:13bodies and then hashem would be strong than the other way and the truth of the…
10. 37:20and a certain idea that i can't totally be part of that culture i have to…

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