Rabbenu Bachya | Parashat Toldot - 'How to elevate yourself' - Rabbi Alon Anava

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

[Music] we are in parachute and very interesting parachute action going on the whole book of birashi there's a lot of action some might say that in other books of the torah it might be interpreted as a little bit boring the book of bereshit there's a lot of action a lot of drama you can make a few hollywood series or maybe sell the stories to netflix with what's going on here but nevertheless of course the beginning of the parashat is referring is talking about that rivka can get pregnant then she gets pregnant she gets the twins and so forth but towards the end of the parasha it's talking about one of the most difficult stories to understand is the way how yaakov somehow tricked asav by getting the blessing from itzhak and i'm sure you remember the whole story i'm not going to get into too many details in case you don't know the story you can find it in the book of bereshit but also important to know a very important detail that when a when they grew up we know that they were 15 years old the day that avraham avinu died then yaakov was mourning the death of his grandfather and the same day esav was busy and the midrash says he did five sins that day and one of them he killed the nimrod we explained that in length in other different class but what happens is that he came home tired that's what it says and he sold the firstborn to yakov today what we want to focus on is specifically not how and why which up until today it's a big i don't have to use the word enigma but a big question why this whole thing why couldn't it right away give the blessing

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2. 4:51starting from the top level which is called yakida then really we know of 125 levels…
3. 9:45when he was going as a sacrifice and the second time is vanessa walked into the…
4. 14:25why me play shaya t leveling yaakov got the real blessing isab got the blessing that…
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6. 24:35some charity and pray and it will and nullify the decree i said she says i…
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8. 34:39of balance well i never lecture about that if you remember maybe you don't like two…
9. 39:28not connected to the torah but self-control and controlling your desires specifically when you know to…
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