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In Their Footsteps #8 - The Most Valuable Small Jugs

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Rabbi Hillel Shaps

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okay good evening happy hanukkah we are what's this we did for tonight right losing track already all right i'm getting old night number four um and we will make sure to tie in our class to hanukkah and it will tying very very directly and naturally it won't be a stretch a stretch um but we are continuing to talk about the patriarchs and matriarchs and i'm going to continue to discuss yaakov jacob tonight and uh we're going to follow him a little bit more on his journey so we left off last week and yaakov was in the house of lovan we actually focused primarily on two two episodes last week one was yaakov and his encounter with the yaakov and his encounter with the shepherds at the well and secondly the relationship between rachel and leia and the kindness that rachel bestowed upon leo so we're going to fast forward a little bit and yaakov builds up a family he builds up great wealth in the house of love and eventually of his uncle and then he it's time for him to leave he leaves okay all kinds of things that that occur throughout that episode throughout that episode we're picking up um where he has now left the house of levan he's traveling back to the land of israel his his uncle lavan lived in um which is outside of israel he's now returning to the land of israel and uh and he hears that his brother asap who washed off had wanted him dead is not too far away so that's where we're gonna pick up and uh if you have the source sheet you

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  1. 0:05okay good evening happy hanukkah we are what's this we did for tonight right losing track
  2. 5:43many many uh animals to give as a gift to his brother asap to attempt to
  3. 11:22but uh but again the ideal is that that that that peace should be made and
  4. 17:00and then we'll have to you know try to figure out what it what it means
  5. 22:36the more they realize the gravity of the slightest the slightest wrong the slightest wrong move
  6. 28:18god and they are essential because otherwise why does he have them and therefore and therefore
  7. 33:57go back and get them now um again that's only true for possessions that come to
  8. 39:39earned with that time should be extremely valuable to us and should be and and we
  9. 45:18to get these small jugs from here we we it's derived that the possessions of the
  10. 50:54ahashverse made they sinned with their bodies they sinned in a physical way and therefore the

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