Parsha Illuminated - Vayishlach: The Angel of Esav and Yaakov's New Name

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

okay para illuminated par V So today we're going to focus on the episode of Yakov where he fights against an ish a man but that we understand to be an angel of sorts and uh and we'll read through the verses we're not going to try to explain everything because there are many questions and many difficulties but we'll try to bring out a few ideas so this takes place in a few ideas so this takes place in chapter 32 and uh Yakov is preparing for his encounter with his brother asov but he's now kind of moving his family around and it says there he got up he rose during that night and took his two wives and his two maid servants and his 11 children and he crossed the Ford of yabok he crossed some kind of Ford he took them brought them across the stream and he took them across the stream and he took across what was his he took across his possessions and then verse 25 in the Hebrew andov remained alone and a man wrestled with him until the break of Dy now we don't know who this man was it doesn't tell us really but um Rashi quotes the midash that says um this was s the prince or that says um this was s the prince or the guardian angel of asov some kind of Angel appointed over asov okay um we'll talk more about that shortly what happens next so they're they're wrestling and this Angel saw that he couldn't defeat so he touched the socket of his hip and the S of Jacob's hip became dislocated as he wrestled with

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1. 0:03okay para illuminated par V So today we're going to focus on the episode of Yakov…
2. 4:40on a few specific points so uh there's some kind of struggle that goes on here…
3. 9:25he attacks yakov's y his his leg now the leg represents The Offspring um we we…
4. 14:40other leg guess we we'll save that for another time but uh but the the baros…
5. 19:22specifically hit him on the on the side of say that has an impact also on…
6. 24:32forms sometimes he comes as is he comes and he says I'm I am Judaism I…
7. 29:12prevailed so Rashi actually understands that when he said he said bless me what yob was…
8. 33:45but it wasn't changed like it's like he got a second name now so uh so…
9. 39:04he's called he's called yov um um when uh when he's in uh later when he's…
10. 43:42yob which yob are we talking about says this is a verse the to whom God…

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