Timeless Lessons: Materialism and Spirituality

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

[Music] everybody I'm creating a new segment called timeless lessons in memory of my dear grandfather Abraham Russ Avram heschel been altered um oh he passed away during the Torah portion of when Avraham when Abraham passed away to me that's not a coincidence and so every week I'd like to deliver to you some timeless lessons that I find in this week's Torah portion this next portion is parsha toll DOS and it's the famous story of Isaac's two sons abraham has Isaac and Ishmael Isaac his two sons ace of and Jacob now Asaph and Jacob grew up and at the end of their as they had altered end of Isaac's life he wanted to give them a blessing and remember the story he was gonna give the blessings basically material wealth and prosperity to his son Asaph thinking that he was deserving of it but rifki Rebekah heard this and then created this incredible scam to bring Jacob in but on his hands the hair of an animal and have Isaac who was blind mistakenly give the blessings to Jacob instead of Isaac instead of ayase of so the question that I have in hearing this story first was a pretty cool story nothing could just be simple right it's always got to be drama but the real question is how did she get away with it so this wasn't like like she was stealing the blessings it wasn't like there was cash in the vault this wasn't like Ocean's eleven antiquity style like it wasn't like when he left at some point ASA was going to come in and at some point Isaac would have found out that they lied to him and at some point since he blessed them he could just

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1. 0:00[Music] everybody I'm creating a new segment called timeless lessons in memory of my dear grandfather…
2. 0:30Avraham when Abraham passed away to me that's not a coincidence and so every week I'd…
3. 1:01blessing and remember the story he was gonna give the blessings basically material wealth and prosperity…
4. 1:32hearing this story first was a pretty cool story nothing could just be simple right it's…
5. 2:34step further you know what happened in the end right he gives him the blessings Jacob…
6. 3:04old man that was blind right obviously picking kids there's something much deeper going on here…
7. 3:34day he was engaged with the physical world Jacob was the man who was sitting and…
8. 4:35whatever he's doing and be a there be a carpenter of course he can he's beginning…
9. 5:05seemed like everybody else the voice the voice is the thing that we have different from…
10. 5:37timeless lesson of this parsha is that in our lives we need to pursue a living…

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