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Rabbi Chaim Mintz - Jacob vs The Phantom of Esau - Part II

Rabbi Chaim Mintz

A Torah class exploring the identity and significance of Esau.

What’s said in this shiur

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

our wonderful weekly sh we are going for transition from the end of the fifth week of SPH of our accounting beginning of our sixth week going from H it's called the week that we have to concentrate of thinking hasem for all the good things that we have and now for the next we have to concentrate on our thoughts they should concentrate on our thoughts they should be pure and holy and uh full of good things that we're supposed to think about about God about the Torah about Judaism that's next to the last week called we have a whole week to work on on that to conquer our thoughts and uh on that to conquer our thoughts and uh put the right things in it we'll start off with our laws of from the holy like we usually do we're talking about that it's important for a person to realize who he keeps company with if he knows the group of people he's about to sit down with that they are the type who like to gossip and talk about all the news and all the faults of other people a person should not sit down with that group of people because he knows it's inevitable it's going to be caught up inevitable it's going to be caught up with problems of L and we SP about last week if you accidentally sat down in such a group not realizing the three things a person has to do not to be transgressed to law of not to believe it and not to feel good about it not show any recognition that you hear what they're saying but if he knows in the beginning that this is the type of people that they are keep away and don't sit down with that group

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  1. 0:00our wonderful weekly sh we are going for transition from the end of the fifth week
  2. 6:18person so it's very important it's not an easy thing to do most people have a
  3. 12:37yobu but he gave him a KN a punch and knocked his thigh displaced it from
  4. 18:51Torah like it should be kept ASV cannot touch you cannot hurt you but if as
  5. 25:10three will be able to have a inroads and power over the Jewish people in the
  6. 31:34almost the question is what's this name change why till now who yov now is name
  7. 37:48live up to the standard God wants us to live as Jewish people then asov can
  8. 44:02I'm doing my job so he was very happy that they recognized that not he's not
  9. 50:16non-jews are we responsible for the communities around us so the question is that it's a
  10. 56:25gree to me doesn't mean you bless me you will accept the blessings that I got

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