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How did Jacob marry 2 sisters?

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morning so this week's para is called Vish it means and he sent it begins it tells us about how yakob Jacob tells us continues his story he as you recall from last week he is now married to four different wives we will soon talk about that and um he has now 12 children 11 sons and a daughter he's yet going to have a 12th son and um and he has left Khan where his uncle um and he has left Khan where his uncle Lin lived and where he had gotten married and had his children he has made an enormous amount of money as a um in animals in husbandry um with sheep than other animals and he's now traveling with his family and all his animals and his various um employees um servants back to the land of Canan where his father lives U but he is afraid because he had left Canan 20 years earlier had a fear that his brother asov would kill fear that his brother asov would kill him and he doesn't know whether asov still wants to kill him or not so he sends a message to asov saying that he's on his way back and um and uh he wants um to be friends with Asa he wants to make up with Asa um he gets a message back that um asov is coming towards him here's that he's coming he's coming towards him with a group of 400 men to attack him so Yakov is very afraid he does three things

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  1. 0:17morning so this week's para is called Vish it means and he sent it begins it
  2. 6:04asov and um and he uh then uh asav um does not attack him asov um
  3. 11:43of his promise that he had made when he had the dream on his way out
  4. 17:22Lavan his uncle and now father-in-law um that why did he do that he fooled him
  5. 22:59too um Yakov clearly married two wives not as an ideal not because he initially wanted
  6. 29:10Abraham did keep the Commandments and Abraham did keep the Torah now how was that possible
  7. 34:46later even if yakob was fulfilling the Torah you can't convert to Judaism before Judaism exists
  8. 40:27keep even if they are not part of the seven Noah laws and this Answers by
  9. 46:12the difference because every Jew is bound by Covenant to follow all the obligations and avoid
  10. 51:55are over he's ready to marry Rael and lo and behold he ends up marrying the

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