Women's Vayishlach Class: Competition is for Losers: Facing Your Loneliness, Birthing Yourself

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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.

Good morning everybody and welcome. Oh, okay. Okay. And uh thank you for braving the weather. So, thank you all for gracing us, those who are here physically, those who are here virtually. And today's class is dedicated by Rebbetzin Esther Roose Shalom in honor of her three diamonds, her beloved children, Rom Yehuda ben Esther, Dov Yosef ben Esther, and Naomi Kayla bas Esther, and all of their children for health, happiness, prosperity, nachas, and all of abundant blessings. May the profound light of Torah that you teach continue to shine brightly always. Amen for all of us. And thank you very very much. I also want to mention that today is the yahrtzeit of Yankel Friedman, Yaakov Yisrael ben Reb Shmuel Binyamin. It's the first yahrtzeit, yeah? Yeah. Okay. If he was killed last year in the plane crash, his mother we have the merit of having her, one of the pillars of this class for many years. Mother, grandmother, and actually great-grandmother in the past. Tehei nishmaso tzurah betzur hachaim, and may his soul his beautiful and generous and kind soul remain our eternal source of inspiration, love, blessings to the entire family, to the all of the community, to the entire Jewish people. L'arichus yamim v'shanim tovim with all the blessings, and we should be zocheh to have kids who are learning and who should be offer. Amen bekarov. Okay, so there is one source sheet today. And um we're going to focus on a story that is uh probably one of the most mysterious and enigmatic stories in the Tanakh. And that says a lot because almost every

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1. 0:00Good morning everybody and welcome. Oh, okay. Okay. And uh thank you for braving the weather.…
2. 6:09And the message is basically, "I want to make up with you. We're brothers. Let's make…
3. 12:20Vayivku and they both sob. From a moment, from a situation that was ripe with tension,…
4. 18:31questions come to him and what does he say? Madua Ata Yoshev Levadecha? You're alone. You…
5. 24:37know, this adult, this hairy kid, who's red and flushed, and he's like holding onto his…
6. 30:45supposed to get, the blessings. It's in this context that you have to hear the word…
7. 36:49dealing with something, we always have to understand there's insecurity, and I'm conscious of it, and…
8. 43:03scarce resource, whatever that resource is. Actually, I become who I am. And something else happens.…
9. 49:16levado bayom hahu. V'nisgav Hashem levado ein od milvado. Your levado is His levado. That's geulah.…
10. 55:27How does one graduate from Yaakov to Yisrael? How do we make that change? Another question.…

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