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The Minister of Mitzrayim: Egypt’s Celestial Guardian and Its Role in Jewish Destiny #pesach #egypt

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Rabbi Reuven Chaim Klein

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all the technical stuff. Tonight we're going to this evening or this morning actually we're going to be speaking about the minister of Mitzim, Egypt's celestial guardian and its role in Jewish destiny. That's our topic for today. And there's different angles we could sort of start the discussion. There's different um directions we could take it. But let's take let's start it off like this inu. Soenu tells us you know you got to know your history. know you got to know your history. There's very important to know your history. So he tells you learn ask your father about this. Ask your grandfather and he's going to tell you about some important things that happened in history. And then the next passage says like this when Hashem the the the one the one on top the one above was bequething the nations um their their let's say their their let's say territory when he was splitting up distinguishing between people this is source number one on the source sheet It says when Hashem was giving out the different nations, he was separating all of mankind into different nations. He uh set up the borders of the nations according to the number of the children of Israel. And then it says for the portion of Hashem is his nation and Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. So what it's saying over here is that when a keshbu decided we're going to see later on that this happened at at the story of mdal at the at the tower of babel when a keshbu um divided the world into different nations. So divided the nations according to their borders according to the number of the children of Israel. So

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  1. 0:31all the technical stuff. Tonight we're going to this evening or this morning actually we're going
  2. 6:11just him with a capital H that went down to the 70 n that created these
  3. 12:24people use to refer to these different um s guardian angels. there there's different uh terminologies
  4. 18:35say so says well it could be that because we're the only ones who get our
  5. 24:45of um of of of this idea that the parameters of the prohibition of a is
  6. 30:56know about angels is that the name of the angel usually tells you something about the
  7. 37:11over the canonites right so this idea that before subdues the physical nation first he subdues
  8. 43:21parallels to that. So, so maybe Mitim is like there's like there's sort of two parts
  9. 49:36be the most prominent still is way more powerful than even the one who's the most
  10. 55:46get to fight the the Babylonians and the king of Kalisol Yoshik said no he doesn't

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