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Kabbalah of Jewish Names: Leah - לאה

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Rabbi Aaron L Raskin

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[Music] the name Leia has two meanings number one Eila thieves number two hollow indeed layer represents letters of thought Alma dis Katya and that is why it says that Yaakov despised her because Yaakov wanted that this intellect should be revealed and Leia kept this a secret Leia also alludes to the first letter hei in the name of God and that alludes also to the world of bina the world of understanding the Torah tells us that lovin had two daughters and the mattress tells us and comments that people would say LaVon has a sister Rivka and Rivka has two sons and therefore the two sons were married the two daughters the older son - the older daughter and the younger son - the younger daughter so ASA of being the older son with Mary Leia the older daughter and Yaakov being the younger son with Maori Raquel the younger daughter because of this and Leia began to cry and she would cry all the time and pray to God I don't want to marry Asaph this is the Midrash Leia if you add up the letters of leia lan made the elephant hay and you spelled it out completely so the llama dispelled lanthanum nollet and the holiday fizz olives llama paid and the hay is hey yud the word layer now equals two hundred is the same Demetria as the letter H now the Prophet tells us that how low our face of the archive is it

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  1. 0:02[Music] the name Leia has two meanings number one Eila thieves number two hollow indeed layer…
  2. 0:32Leia also alludes to the first letter hei in the name of God and that alludes…
  3. 1:02were married the two daughters the older son - the older daughter and the younger son…
  4. 1:37add up the letters of leia lan made the elephant hay and you spelled it out…
  5. 2:10not that is a brother to Jacob so the word ah is a brother if you…
  6. 3:14you know dot behind it and the dolla does that that behind the race represents humility…
  7. 3:44letter Dali then you put it next to the letters Ock brother you now have the…
  8. 4:15large this Dollard represents Leia furthermore Leia is made up of three letters Lamia the outlive…
  9. 4:48Dina the one girl that Leia hat and then it's read again Aleph and hey which…
  10. 5:20one is deliverance is God's and Leia was truly delivered she was saved she did not…

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