Toldos - A Blessed Blessing

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The opening of this shiur, in The Parsha In My Life - Rabbi Reuven Wolf’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

All right, everyone. Good evening. Welcome to Monday night. Um, it's not [snorts] Tuesday night, but it's the Monday night class on Tuesday. Uh, para in my life. Okay, this week we're actually going to straight stay true to the para. Um but a very very very special para class with a very beautiful uplifting meaningful teaching. Okay. And today we're going to talk about blessings. The para has a lot of blessings. We have in the end of the Torah portion we have the great big blessing that Yitzk uh Isaac gives to his son Yakov. Uh and it was a uh blessing that took a lot of work in order to um to bring about because the intention of the blessing was to go to asov and then it was switched. Yakov had to like uh sneak his way into those blessings. That's the dramatic story about a blessing in Parasa's told us. But we're going to focus actually on an earlier part of the para where there is a blessing that happens to Isaac himself, the himself. Incredible big blessing. Um now why is this important right now is because we are living in a very blessed time in general. The world is being blessed because tremendous um new abilities and and uh capabilities are downloading into the world. We might um creating the technological um capabilities for such exponential prosperity and such exponential growth which is going to take life to such a a a um comfortable place to a place where people will have such abundance with minimal work. And that shouldn't scare anybody because it's just going to free us up to be able to be the higher

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1. 0:03All right, everyone. Good evening. Welcome to Monday night. Um, it's not [snorts] Tuesday night, but…
2. 6:22knowing that you're in that because I'm receiving a blessing that means I'm in a connection…
3. 12:55because it was not such a good parcel of land and he planned that's why the…
4. 19:20mean what's what is problematic over here that you have to come up with a reason…
5. 25:45So number one, so this is not really a question according to Raj. So, we're back.…
6. 32:23what grew. You give what you have at the end. So when are you going to…
7. 38:42there's a certain fundamental problem with his first interpretation. So what's the fundamental problem in the…
8. 45:10and a bad land. So you can understand that the estimation before they grew was a…
9. 51:39if this is the case, why does why does Rashi have to why does Rashi bring…
10. 58:09animals in it and having such a zoo and such a in such a small space,…

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