Haftorah Vayeira: The Prophet Elisha (Kings II Chap. 4)

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good morning everybody good morning and welcome this week's half torah for the portion of aydah is the story of elisha from the book of kings 2 chapter number 4. alisha says the talmud had double the power of his teacher aliyahu as the commentaries explained he performed 16 astounding miracles and he served israel for 60 years elisha served israel from around 30 50 to 3110 on the jewish calendar which means over twenty seven hundred years ago and the talmud tells us three keys are concealed from humankind number one the key of panasonic of earning a living the key of children and the key of resurrection and all of these three keys were given to elisha and here he performs these three miracles in this one small half torah and as we explained in the previous halftorus that the after needs to have a connection to the pasture of the weak and that's why it's important that one reads the pasha first to understand the connection so comes the question to mind what is the connection between the hafteira dealing with the miracles of elisha and the haftada of aida we begin with the opening story in kings 2 chapter 4 verse number 1 the isha akhas a certain woman one woman who was actually the wife of avadyar the prophet and she was minished beneath one of the disciples the wife of one of the disciples of the prophets and swako al-alisha she cries out to alisha and she says your servant my husband is dead and he goes on to say she goes on to say that is a shame that he feared god the problem is however vanessa bello you love the creditors are now coming to take

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1. 0:00good morning everybody good morning and welcome this week's half torah for the portion of aydah…
2. 2:10and swako al-alisha she cries out to alisha and she says your servant my husband is…
3. 4:16fire this fire inside of us dies and we lack this connection we lack this yearning…
4. 6:26how do we do this we do this by meditating that we are calling rakim that…
5. 8:30responding that when a yid is 99 years old and he's at saddik he's doing god's…
6. 11:06she needs children alisha calls her and i want to give you a child she said…
7. 13:15and that is at the bar mitzvah of and yitzchok says in this week's pasture that…
8. 15:22for yitzhak to lose his faith because there were so many negative influences all these different…
9. 17:31then he decided he wanted to keep shabbos and so he began to keep shabbos and…
10. 19:41and so rabbi after that shabbos after that friday night meal after those candle lighting i…

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