Why Yaakov was not able to be comforted over the tragic loss of his son

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

Andalam to all of you that are with us tonight. As usual, it's a great pleasure to be together discussing Torah questions and answers, discussion, theories, ideas, and it's all in the framework to learning Torah, which is the greatest mitzvah that the Jewish people have is studying Torah. So get ready for fulfilling the greatest mitzvah that we have. And tonight our uh schmoo is titled Why could Yakino not be comforted for his loss of his son Yose which he thought that he lost and they all tried to comfort him refused to be comforted said I can't be comforted till the day I die I'll die with pain and suffering I cannot be comforted. And this raises a great question because we know that many people lose children. God should watch over us not to have to suffer such a loss. But it's a fact of life that parents sometimes lose a child. And we know that Jewish people don't get totally depressed and broken. Jewish people have faith in Hashem. We know a person who dies goes to a great place. And we know this world is not the place where we end up. It's only a on the way only a way to on the way to go to eternity go to good things. Some people live longer on the way like somebody's tried to get to Israel. If you live in uh uh France, you'll get there sooner than if you give live in America. So going to the same place sometime takes longer, sometimes takes shorter. Some people live longer to get there. Some people feel it's less less time to get there. But we all believe that dying is not a terrible thing because we know that person lives forever. We know that the body will reunite with the sha eventually. So we know that good Jews all of the all

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2. 2:40the years and all over when they if they suffer such a terrible loss of course…
3. 5:55it. So again, makes this question even stronger. Why it is so important for every name…
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5. 12:26that is represented from the children of As. All those names, cabalistic writings tell us they…
6. 15:37rid the world of all these people and all these ideas was in the hands of…
7. 18:48Yakov the thought, that means that this whole idea would not be able to come fruition.…
8. 22:13of of of telling them what the truth of the world is. There's a god in…
9. 25:22is have to be the ones to get rid of it, set people straight and uh…
10. 28:39forefront. And of course, that's one of the reasons we have so many enemies because a…

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