Toldos: The Diplomat and the Digger, by Rabbi YY Jacobson

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

[Music] [Music] good evening and welcome to all who are joining us here this evening from around the globe tonight's class is graciously dedicated by our dear friends david and edestein in the sacred memory of rabbi gavriel nayach and his wife rifki haltzberg and all of the kudoshim of mumbai their first yard site since the massacre the terror massacre the terror massacre last year in mumbai is tonight the first day of kislev [Music] the schottenstein also dedicated his class in the loving memory of a young soul alta shula swordlove the daughter of rabbayasi and hinduswordlove from the holy city of jerusalem who slays him the 30th day thins her passing a month ago in jerusalem is also this week and may their memories serve as a source of inspiration and invigoration to all of us [Music] this evening we want to explore a strange episode in the weekly portion of toilets and discover how this how this subtle nuance which at the surface seems so enigmatic and difficult to comprehend really captures a fundamental teaching in life and in judaism and jewish history the portion of toldos focuses very much on yitzhak avinu's isaac's wellsprings there is a hunger in the land of israel there is a hunger in the land of israel in the land of canaan yitzhak isaac travels to the gerar to the territory of the philistines it's in the territory of gaza there the torah tells us that all of the wells that have rama vino yitzhak's father abraham doug and his servant's dog after his death the philistines stopped them they were

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2. 6:08other with peace with harmony without discord and conflict respect each other's boundaries and not infringe…
3. 11:52many different ancient structure structures including according to archaeologists from the date of the patriarchs and…
4. 17:27there's nothing to do with avromovinus well it's an old well that they have there in…
5. 23:20parenthetically that's the third laboratory in his uh monumental work say quotes dissipano supports him and…
6. 29:01territory of the well and yitzhak expanded the name to the entire city we must discover…
7. 34:41we don't see him play a major role there the blessings he gives to ace of…
8. 40:19yitzhakovino goes deeper and deeper into himself representing the ideal of digging through all of the…
9. 45:56king of philistines represents this other dimension it's kavin doesn't call it because avi malek came…
10. 51:33in 1924 and then opened its doors it opened its doors on the 28th of seven…

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