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Vayhi: Jewish Esav | Rabbi Ariel Mizrahi

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Rabbi Ariel Mizrahi

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Okay, good morning everyone and thank you for joining us on this beautiful Monday morning as we are studying together. Our paras is the last of the book of and of course it concludes with the death of the final of our patriarchs of our avot. Of course we know the book of is theim. It discusses what happened to our avot to our forefathers, our foremothers, our to our forefathers, our foremothers, our ancestors and we learn from them and uh it's appropriate for the book to end with the death of and so the paras is called and it begins and it tells us that uh as he's approaching his death he makes sure to um uh uh to arrange, if you will, his final matters, his affairs. He uh calls over matters, his affairs. He uh calls over his son, Yoseph. He makes sure that his son has a a plan to bury him in Israel. He says, "I don't want to be buried here. Please make sure to take me to the land where I was born of my forefathers. I want to be buried with Abraham and in the Okay." And he blesses his his grandsons We know he elevates them. He makes them in their own right. Right. Right. He says that if will have status Right. He says that if will have status of they will be like the tribes. And finally he blesses his sons. And of course these blessings are very very very deep very complicated a lot to study and to analyze and to understand and to learn. What is he telling each one? And one of the things that he blesses his sons, he says to uh if we open the pisukim just for one moment. Uh let's open it up over here.

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