Parshat Vayeitzei: Love Stories - Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz

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[Music] yeah so this uh par is really uh action filled because it actually covers so many events it's the birth of all of the all of the tribes and and the like first let's be sure that everyone understands the chronology you know Yakov stole or took the blessings away from from asov and yakov's life sure yakov's life is now in danger and both his father and his mother tell him he shall flee to Lan's house Lan is the brother of his mother Rifka although it's interesting that yit and Rifka give two different reasons Rifka tells Yakov you better run because ASV your brother wants to kill you doesn't give that reason y just says go and find a wife right it's interesting that Rebecca Rifka never tells her husband that ASA wants to kill Yakov she she doesn't give that as the reason because it could very well be I'm just speculating that maybe yit wouldn't have believed this since y still had that love for ASV he says I can't believe that ASV would possibly want to kill his brother so she has to bring out the marriage angle so Rifka communicates to Y the marriage angle but Rifka communicates to jakov it's the literal threat to your life angle so the truth is it's both both reasons now chronologically though this is something that people might not realize how old was Yakov you may have discussed this how old was Yakov you think he's a young boy yob was 63 years old at this point and and uh as

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