Rabbi Chaim Mintz - Jacob vs The Phantom of Esau - Who Was He?

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welcome everybody tonight we are going to start our fifth week of counting the OM tonight will be 29 days which are four weeks and one day to the OM on our way our journey through the desert to acceptor Mount Si and this week we uh step out from last week's input into serving hasem which was called n perfecting ourselves making ourselves perfect we start the is to thank this is the week of thanking hasem for all the good things we have from him physical ways spiritual ways this the week of the thank Hashem for all the good things that he made us to do be Jewish people to chose a nation so this week we concentrate on thanking him for week we concentrate on thanking him for all the good things he gave to us of course you know in the days of sphere of counting is also days of uh minor M for the great students rabi AKA who died during these weeks many years ago rabi AA that was about uh almost 2,000 years ago and he had 24,000 great students who passed away during this period between PES and away during this period between PES and so that's why some of us are having beards that we usually don't have we don't shave like a morning we don't have any weddings and people don't listen to music because all the morning period of those great people will die during that time but uh on the other hand the days of joy of getting close to Hashem getting prepared for the accepting of the Torah Mount Si which will take place in 3 weeks okay so as usual we'll start off with some of the laws of slander from the holy book the book is called the and he's talking over here saying that we should be careful of the company that

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1. 0:00welcome everybody tonight we are going to start our fifth week of counting the OM tonight…
2. 6:18must control himself at this time of diffic difficulty and to fight the Battle of Hashem…
3. 12:40Torah says we have to be very careful to watch our selves to watch our life…
4. 18:53Nation much more greater numbers than you don't be afraid there's say explicitly you're outnumbered you're…
5. 25:06left and who the people who were afraid go home another 2,000 people left so they…
6. 31:21foot and the thigh of yov became dislocated while he was fighting with him now we…
7. 37:33suspense until next week that we'll discuss exactly who this man was and what he was…
8. 43:50word just make one motion or or just eyes lift up your eyes like that whatever…
9. 50:10of don't to somebody that don't want done to yourself does not ne mean that you…
10. 56:27uh one of the hard MIT in the Torah is to fulfill the you shall not…

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