Zera Shimshon - Parashat Miketz/Chanukah 2019 - Rabbi Laredo

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The opening of this shiur, in Zera Shimshon’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

great evening understanding the parsha understanding hanukkah and also understanding the inevitable being that tonight is christmas actually happens to you my english birthday and hebrew they are both coinciding now my english birthday is the 25th of december and my birthday is the fourth night of chanukah which we just lit so um i guess a very auspicious uh right not yet not yet not yet not yet twice as young twice as young thank you thank you okay so let's just get a recap of our main character in this week's torah portion and that is joseph joseph finds himself being hated by his very own brothers a lot of jealousy a lot of animosity and his brothers kidnap him and sell him it's a very horrible very sad thing that anyone would ever imagine your own anyone would ever imagine your own sibling kidnapping you and selling you as a slave this is what happened to joseph he was all of 17 years old at this time very young teenage years obviously wasn't an easy thing for him but what joseph was great at doing was arriving rising above all of his struggles and succeeding with them as soon as he came to potiphar's house he was already seen as a very talented individual as a noble and respectful honorable and respectful honorable young man and he started climbing the ranks he literally went from janitorial services to something greater and greater and greater and greater until he was in charge of potiphar's estate potiphar was the number two man to paro and he was a very wealthy man successful man special person in the in the hierarchy of egypt at that time but unfortunately as we learned in last week's torah portion potiphar's wife set

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