Beauty Over Substance? Two Versions of Pharaoh's Dreams - Parsha Mikeitz - By Rabbi YY Jacobson

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Oh [Music] No [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh yeah [Music] Oh not hood [Music] [Applause] [Music] good evening welcome and Happy Hanukkah to one and all who are joining us here this evening from across the globe tonight's class is dedicated by Judy Farkas from the Brooklyn Financial Group a representative of Guardian life insurance of America in the merit of Hinda bas Rahel for a complete and speedy recovery as well as in the merit of shmuly Farkas in honor of his tenth birthday on the third day of Hanukkah Mazel Tov tonight's class is also dedicated by David and EDA Schottenstein in the loving memory of the kadosh IAM of mumbai and rebecca Vril Maya and Ricky Holtzberg also in the loving memory of a young soul Alta Sheila's word loved the daughter of Rabbi you see and Hindle sweared love - hey knishmas samsara bit Saroja Shyam this evening we are going to explore what would seem like an obscure minor and perhaps irrelevant nuance and detail why even focus on such a minor detail and yet upon deeper reflection we come to realise how sometimes such a seemingly irrelevant and insignificant nuance becomes a springboard and a catalyst for a profound an elaborate extremely relevant reflection and what I'm referring to is a subtle change in the story recorded in this week's Torah portion maquettes Pharaoh the Emperor of Egypt dreams he has a dream and the Torah describes the dream the way Pharaoh experiences it please open up your curriculum right below the video you have the PDF curriculum to source number one source number one is the beginning of the portion of maquettes the Torah describes the dream of Pharaoh v he named in a URI lies Sheva Paris you face myra of Rios buzzer from the canal come up seven cows what type of cows you

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3. 10:32Jewish minds not only of last generation but of many generations and this evening we are…
4. 15:28the Tana the Tana comma usually Rabbi Meir and Rabbi you see huh khalili they have…
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9. 41:42Yusuf when Joseph and his prisoners presence when Joseph is and Pharaohs presence and he's repeating…
10. 47:14the contrary they celebrated it and generally they introduced into universal into the culture and wanted…

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