More DANGEROUS than ANTISEMITISM | Parsha Perspectives | Vayishlach 5786

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

shir we're off next week. There are plenty of shirum from previous years you could listen to online or plenty of other phenomenal midday shir you could listen to online but we're going to be traveling next week and therefore uh there is no live new Shir next week. So just want to announce that in advance. Page 170 paras. The narrative, the story that we're so familiar with, we know so well continues to unfold. And no matter how well we know it, nevertheless, it still grips us. The story of our Torah, story of Yakov, the dreaded reunion with his brother Asov that he is in fact so nervous and even anxious about, which is unusual. We'll see in a moment why a saddic who trusts in Hashem and has that promise should be nervous or anxious. But we along with him even though we know how the story ends but we read par and as the story unfolds we live it we feel it yet again stay adome so Jacob after 22 years of separation alienation 22 years of running and being on the road he's now ready to reunite with his brother but before he does because of those concerns he makes some preparations he does some advanced leg work And Kazal, the rabbis tell us he does three things. He sends gifts. He davins of course to Hashem and he prepares for the worst. He hopes for the best but prepares for the worst. So he makes plans for he girds his army, his family to be able to go to battle if

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1. 0:30shir we're off next week. There are plenty of shirum from previous years you could listen…
2. 6:14a message to Asov. Lest you think I stole the bra and it's been fulfilled in…
3. 12:21was already covered in hair. Why? Because physically was reflective of spiritually, emotionally, Asov is he's…
4. 18:26I haven't moved in permanently. I live as a g recognizing all of this is temporary.…
5. 24:16they're going to unite and reunite, if Jacob aspires that Asov will no longer hate him,…
6. 30:25from whichever method my brother takes against me. If he's going to present himself as an…
7. 36:39because could put out his hand to punch, he could put out his hand to hug.…
8. 42:18does not cancel out all the emotional pain. These mixed feelings were born thousands of years…
9. 48:49America generally don't. So we observe the law of ganasha as a as a result as…
10. 55:19How in the world can Yakov describe Asov, the face of the wicked Asov, like the…

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