Vaera: From Trauma to Healing | Rabbi Ariel Mizrahi

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

Okay, good morning everyone and thank you for joining us on this beautiful Thursday morning as we are studying together of course begins with the conversation of Hashem and Moshe about refusal to allow the Jewish people to leave and Hashem gives Moshe here the four the four expressions of freedom we spoke yesterday actually through the lens of the shalom and how he explains these four spiritual physical emotional these four spiritual physical emotional uh and then eventually is bringing them into uh into Hashem's domain. But be it as it may, however you explain these four expressions again, I will take you out of the uh of the abuse. I will save you from the slavery. uh I will redeem you um take you out of Egypt maybe and then I will bring you into a covenant into a marriage between into a covenant into a marriage between Hashem and us. Problem is it says over here [snorts] after the fourth step after the fourth step look at the puk chapter 6 puk 7 I will take you for a nation and I will be for you a godm and then you will know that I am God. you will know that I am the God that's taking you out of the abuse of Egypt and the only question is strong question the only question is strong question only after this fourth step only after will God take us out of the abuse of mitz the abuse was the first step so after the first step we're already out of the first step what does it mean out after the fourth step you will be out of the first step. Yeah. Look at the and you'll see. It's very interesting. You would think after we're already out and after we're already saved and after we're already

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1. 0:00Okay, good morning everyone and thank you for joining us on this beautiful Thursday morning as…
2. 2:35something very very beautiful, very deep uh touches into obviously therapy and I'm not a therapist.…
3. 5:40just sharing from things that I've heard here and there throughout my life or ideas. But…
4. 8:44realize that what happened to me was part of my training. Hashem wanted me to go…
5. 11:50both are ways of elevating and redeeming my victimhood. They they're both they're both ways. Obviously…
6. 14:57yourself from being that victim. The other way if you don't do this if you don't…
7. 18:04Some people I'm worthless unless you give me any sense of validation and worth. If you…
8. 21:13Hashem's people. When you can define yourself, now you are able to remove the labels and…
9. 24:18everyone, do everything. It's all good. That's not a gadul. You want to be you got…
10. 27:22once a victim. Torah says don't don't do it the wrong way. The wrong way is…

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