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To Feel for Another Jew: The Untold Story of a Sea Splitting for Two Sinners - By Rabbi YY Jacobson

5.5K views · Feb 6, 2017

Rabbi YY Jacobson

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every good story has a plot great stories have a subplot extraordinary stories have sub subplots the stories of the tah are multi-layered they have plots they have subplots they have sub subplots and usually or really always many more usually or really always many more layers today we're going to explore such a story the story of Camu the splitting of the Red Sea is well known in fact we repeat it every day but we're going to go on a journey today a journey through the sea but also a journey through the lives of two individuals which explore and excavate really a whole subplot Inus yamu and here the word sub is quite accurate and precise we're going to have to construct some form of pyramid even though we're leaving Egypt in order to be able to appreciate how subtle how precise how meticulous this underlying story is told in Kish and you can title it as the UNT old story of the second cam now you don't know what I'm talking about that's exactly the way it's supposed to be at this point we're going to point we're going to begin with a fascinating conversation or story that is recorded in your First Source in your Source sheets there's a sa called R it's a commentary on a medish known as ton de ton Deo is one of the unique M we have as the gor says it's a record of a conversation an ongoing conversation between one of the great hudic sages and Elijah the prophet and he records the

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  1. 0:34every good story has a plot great stories have a subplot extraordinary stories have sub subplots…
  2. 6:17say it says when wants to say making a livelihood is as difficult as the splitting…
  3. 12:35and the Jewish people wed in dry land in the sea and the water was a…
  4. 18:45quoted in all the which also is quite strange take a look at the next Source…
  5. 24:57saw that his Reb is in a I don't know what to call it but it's…
  6. 31:25mum get out and the tah continues that the path was not the straight path from…
  7. 37:45response now the Jews have left Egypt they crossed the Red Sea and now they're hungry…
  8. 44:09s but I think all the names that you have just given all the beautiful glorious…
  9. 50:20fine but the whole story is about so what do you mean they State whoever heard…
  10. 56:40yous you're lazy good for go back to work you lazy bums you're not going to…

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