If Her Father Spat in Her Face: Miriam and Her Parents

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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.

birthday yesterday for a tremendous year of hatslach and everything bagashimi is with all the love and blessings i want to explore with you today one of those very enigmatic and obviously multi-layered stories that saturate the whole tanakh including parasha's balloon but this is the far part of is a portion that's filled with story after story after story one more fascinating engaging and challenging than the other but certainly the final story i don't want to say takes the cake but certainly really uh challenges us in many ways and invites us always to go deeper and look deeper into the text and try to unravel more profound layers of meaning the famous expression of khazal shivam panam letter that has 70 faces it's a very interesting way of saying you know you say this this this piece of art has 70 faces this person has 70 faces it's not always a compliment you know you have so many faces two-faced is not a compliment seventy-faced is probably not a certainly not a compliment but here it's the means exactly the opposite shivan panam latira means there's so many faces and they're all authentic so many different layers different perspectives and different meanings and they all ultimately are integrated and cohesive they're not just diverse and fragmented and certainly this story we can see it throughout the story so let's remember the context it's the end of parshas baloyska it's the 12th chapter of uh of bamidbor peregma midbur per se by made by parakeet base the 12th chapter of of numbers and the torah opens up the chapter with a very mysterious possible

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1. 0:32birthday yesterday for a tremendous year of hatslach and everything bagashimi is with all the love…
2. 6:10and moshe is there with his brother and his sister and hashem calls out aaron and…
3. 12:17now when we look at the story before we get into the details of the story…
4. 18:30what's the last what's the second to the last one last one is shabbos you should…
5. 24:38and he set an example everybody divorced their wives what's the point of being together and…
6. 31:02now this baby is taken and now put into the nile he wasn't thrown into the…
7. 37:11they said the jewish women are different they're like animals they don't need midwives by the…
8. 43:20and amram heard these words and he went back and married maria and married her mother…
9. 49:30brain we're actually detaching from reality because some realities are beyond they're grand they're they're mysterious…
10. 55:39meet my mother meet my mother-in-law meet my wife that's first of all but second i…

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