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Vayishlach: The Incredible Mission in Shechem - What Dina Was Really After! - Rabbi Duvi

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Rabbi Duvi Bensoussan

An in-depth look at the mission in Shechem and the deeper meaning behind Dina’s story.

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apartment hashem and you know it reminds you what it means galoot it reminds you what it means to live out of boxes and it also reminds you that everything out there that we always thought we needed when it comes time to move you end up finding out the things you really need and the things you're wondering what and the things you're wondering what you're still doing with so it's amazing when you start packing up stuff you start realizing that we're hoarders we literally buy stuff to store half of the stuff we don't even use it's amazing it's a big moussar big moussa mamash when it came time to deciding what's going to go back to the lakewood house and what's going to stay with us here in the new brooklyn house the new brooklyn house would you believe me if i told you that double the amount of boxes went back to the lakewood house in storage and only a quarter of the boxes remained here in brooklyn for day-to-day life and we were reminded what we really need to live on and what we fictitiously think we can't live without we can't survive without it's a big moussar reminds us we don't need as much as we think we do has given us a lot more than we ever needed it's amazing so tonight we're going to start with a binacha kidarkenu bakodesh give us we have a big big share tonight baruch

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  1. 0:00apartment hashem and you know it reminds you what it means galoot it reminds you what
  2. 6:13and we don't understand and things don't seem to be fair and things seem to be
  3. 12:30because yaakov was worried lest that rasha would put his eyes on his daughter and he
  4. 18:39he already deflected all the credit to borehole mercy has said and it's not me and
  5. 24:51the torah yakov so to speak gets up what the next morning yeah if you know
  6. 31:09by the said by the dark side these were great great greatness that were literally kidnapped
  7. 37:51in the darkest of places on earth and somehow brilliantly bring them back home like mother
  8. 44:16makes sense now because he's from the snake the snake hopped him the snake hostaged him
  9. 50:39when she went out said nothing stopped up she was the power of yourself yourself brings
  10. 57:19that they were clean antalya but carnivore breached the laws of nida and because of that

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