If You Know Your Destination, You Will Never Get There

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

foreign [Music] if anybody would like coffee or tea or water in the back with some fruits or cookies please make yourself comfortable welcome everybody [Music] make yourselves comfortable there's one source sheet it's on the Beamer where'd you put it on the Beamer okay it's just one page double-sided so please take one [Music] I hope I'll get there foreign [Music] foreign [Music] that door is open right people can come in okay [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] for coming and welcome everybody there's one source sheet on the be much double-sided and let's begin if I could just ask you to put your cell phones on vibrate or on airplane mode thank you very much okay today's class is dedicated by Adam farcas in honor of his Asia that's beautiful thank you very much and all the blessings thank you [Music] foreign [Music] so everybody knows that the beginning of the Jewish story the story of the Jewish people begins in Paris the first 11 chapters of Tyra the first 11 chapters of boratius of Genesis are Universal they're about the entire planet the entire Cosmos and all of the Nations and all of the peoples and then suddenly at chapter 12 there is uh they're zooming in right today we call it zooming in into one individual till that point it's a story about all of mankind and that's very interesting it's a story about literally all of mankind and all of womankind but mankind includes women and then suddenly a chapter 12 beginning of there is this radical shift

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1. 0:25foreign [Music] if anybody would like coffee or tea or water in the back with some…
2. 6:39you shall be a blessing I will bless those who bless you those who curse you…
3. 12:58Poland he passed away in 1905 tougher [Music] so here is his commentary he writes extremely…
4. 19:16right you're supposed to go to London ended up announced Israel by car so uh thank…
5. 25:47to absorb La Caba that which is beyond my comprehension that church was beyond my half…
6. 32:17child once he or she is older challenges apparent about certain things that happened oh and…
7. 38:36real destination because when I'm stuck in the life that I decided I have to have…
8. 45:10foreign in a good marriage even if a husband doesn't like certain things right he's not…
9. 52:02much more logical first of all faster less energy less exhaustion okay you won't have pictures…
10. 58:23but it's exactly the land where I was sent to why can't you tell me where…

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