Vayetze: Think for Yourself with Rabbi Shlomo Farhi

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

communicates to us a beautiful idea the torah tells us that that yaakov gets to this place and he takes from the stones of the place and he takes all the stones in this place he wants to lie down he takes from the all the rocks and he places them around his head rashi says he made it like a horseshoe shape around his uh his head he built up a little wall around his head right around his head right and that was going to protect that was going to protect him and what was it going to protect him from rasheed says because yaakov was worried about hayot raot about wild animals uldum is the same question if he's worried about wild animals tearing him apart why is he create protecting his head what the animal can't come and take a bite out of his leg out of his torso right the animal's gonna attack whatever you leave open to it so number one if you're gonna if you're so number one if you're gonna if you're not gonna protect the rest of the body right why are you protecting the head and if you're going to protect the head why you're not protecting the rest of the body fascinating question okay now the answer to that question rabbotai has many different hashla many different ways of understanding it but i want to look at it together maybe perhaps in a new way this year than we did last year last year we talked about a very powerful idea of avinu understood that the most

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