Zera Shimshon - Vayeshev 2020 - Rabbi Laredo

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

so thank you for all that this week um we are transitioning so let me let me preempt it as follows if we look in the book of genesis and we look at our three patriarchs the vast majority of the attention coming in in second place would be abraham and in first place would be jacob the the most amount of torah portions the most amount of of of verses and episodes does take place for our patriarch jacob again because he had all 12 of his children on the path of god and that was the that was eventually going to be the forever more people of israel bene israel the jewish people um having said that in this week's torah portion we do transition a little bit from jacob to learning about joseph his favorite son so i want to give us a little bit of a recap on what's taken place over the past let's say two or three parshas and bring us up to speed where we up are up to today this would help us tremendously appreciate the novelties that we're going to hear from the zestimate and then from robaria leap at age 63 a little bit advanced especially for the scene nowadays at age 63 jacob takes the blessing from his father and finds his way um away from home he travels away from home he leaves home uh as his mother and then his father also blessed them to go so he

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1. 2:05so thank you for all that this week um we are transitioning so let me let…
2. 4:16rachel we all know that was swapped that was messed up and he uh ends up…
3. 6:24pretty soon after and it took a couple years but finally this unfortunately happened uh joseph…
4. 8:32out with the with his brothers with his half-brothers from the the children of the slaves…
5. 10:41that they didn't do anything wrong so the mad lawyers goes through one by one all…
6. 13:18the brothers slaughtered when the brothers sold him they slaughtered a goat and they dipped joseph's…
7. 15:22three seems definitely like a punishment the fact that he was sold like a slave but…
8. 17:30all they slaughtered the goat and then they dipped the the coat in proving to him…
9. 19:40so to that disastrous gives four reasons how that was not really a win-win for joseph…
10. 21:43young man and that's 17 years old it's just a normal it's a normal thing however…

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