Vayeishev – Power Without Corruption

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

Hi, this is David Olowski with the para in five where in five minutes we try to give you a little insight into the para that hopefully add to your shabas. In this week's para we have a very strange story very strange story of Yehuda and Tamar. And this is a story that all of us learned as children because when we were learning the teacher always said skip this chapter and so we all ran home and read it in the English. Right? There's no better way to get somebody to learn something than to say to skip it. I think that's the reason why so many high schools in America don't teach vayikra. You know, they do boratas, schmos, bumidba, and dvarum. They figure, oh, I wonder what's in vira that they're making us skip it, you know, so they go in and say, oo, coronos, this is exciting. Tyrus. [laughter] So, you read the story and it's a very hard story to understand. But I want to deal on one aspect of this story and that is Tamar who is the daughter of Sheame Ben Noah. Yehuda marries him off to his first son [clears throat] who dies because of a sin. And then he does Yam and marries him off to Onain who dies because he did a sin. And his third son is Shayla and he's afraid to marry him off. Maybe she's a catlonus, you know, if you if you if your husbands all die. So then you have to be afraid that there's something about you that's killing your husbands. So it's mas Leo whether you get two shots at it or

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1. 0:00Hi, this is David Olowski with the para in five where in five minutes we try…
2. 0:33You know, they do boratas, schmos, bumidba, and dvarum. They figure, oh, I wonder what's in…
3. 1:04Yehuda marries him off to his first son [clears throat] who dies because of a sin.…
4. 1:34three shots at it, you know, but he was being midden saying okay you know just…
5. 2:05father of the child." And he goes, "Oh my gosh, that was her." and soda many…
6. 2:35you got incest over here on the other side. He comes from Russ from Moav. Moav…
7. 3:06Yeah. incest on two sides. It seems like a bizarre story and the kazal say because…
8. 3:37You have to be very careful. You have to be a very honest and controlled person…
9. 4:08somebody in public, you don't. And and David had to put up with this his whole…
10. 4:39He should come. Everyone should have a good chabas.…

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