Of Sticks and Snakes - Parsha Va'eira

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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.

[Music] [Applause] [Music] good evening and welcome to all joining us for this global Torah class across the world tonight's class is dedicated by our dear friends David and EDA Schottenstein in the loving memory of a young child of Rama vyd libera of a young woman Pasha Leia as a lay both killed in a horrific car accident last Wednesday night in Pennsylvania dedicated also in the sacred memory of the Mumbai adoshem in rabaa Gavriel Naya and risky hallsburg and in the memory of a young girl altar shoeless word love struck down by a bus in Jerusalem tahini Sh'ma Samsa rudaba Tara Higham mobile Ahimaaz Linette Saahil maha shymala kim dima may i'll call upon him may God obliterate death and wipe the tears from every face [Music] there is a major theme that seems to penetrate to pervade the entire story of the Egyptian Exodus and it's basically the theme of sticks and snakes it begins already in the portion of SHM ice during the first encounter of Moses and God when God sends Moses on the mission to go set the Israelites free from Egyptian bondage and Moses laments that the Jews might not believe him and his message and here is the first time we experienced the first miracle connected of course two sticks and snakes please open your curriculums to source number one right below the video you have a PDF document with a curriculum and a source sheets the portion of schmoes by Yann Moshe AUMF a halo Yamin holy Moses tells God the Jews won't believe me below you shmoo Bakr leekie I'm ruling near a left ashram they will claim that God never appeared to you so what does Hashem tell Moshe to do via rail of our Mazda by Edessa Baia Mare mata God asks

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1. 5:37it in front of Pharaoh and his servants and it becomes a salmon what is a…
2. 10:48others translated as the great large crocodile crouching long in the river representing here the Nile…
3. 16:07is in Pharaoh's home Pharaoh the serpent is a stick inanimate subtle nondamaging to Moses on…
4. 21:49over to the Serpent and touch it hold on to it stare at it look at…
5. 27:03therefore never crooked always in a straight line unlike the snake now let's understand the story…
6. 32:21restricts and conceals the energy intensely suddenly they're nullified they have no identity opposing it suddenly…
7. 38:03and that's its whole truth but here we have the different stages when Moses is holding…
8. 43:19later in hookahs there is a epidemic where snakes infiltrate the Jewish community in the desert…
9. 48:32direction and it hits the other side of the bottle and it flies back and forth…

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