Vayishlach: Victim or Victor

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

welcome to this week's virtual draa this week we have the incredible privilege to be par and of course one of the most dramatic parts of the parasa is the encounter the the long awaited much anticipated reunion Between Brothers Yu not knowing exactly what was going to go on how was this all going to unfold is he going to face an asov who is a friend or a foe and amazingly enough so asov somehow is moved by this encounter he kisses Yakov he hugs Yakov he cries over Yakov and at least for a small period of time it appears that brothers were able to live in peace ultimately each of them goes their own way and builds out their respective Dynasty but what I want to draw your attention to is the night before that encounter because the night before Yu encountered his brother Esa face to face he engages in this mysterious battle the Torah tells us that yob was left all alone was left alone he fights with a man a mysterious man until dawn and rashes says this was no ordinary man but rather again this was the ministering angel of asov so although amazingly enough Yakov and asov themselves never fight it's because yov already fought the Battle the night before he fought the Mal he fought the angel of Asa already the night before and of course we know that comes the next morning yob is able to hold his ground and although he was injured a significant injury yov walks away from the encounter limping but at the end of the day he is still standing and then there's an

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1. 0:00welcome to this week's virtual draa this week we have the incredible privilege to be par…
2. 1:02no ordinary man but rather again this was the ministering angel of asov so although amazingly…
3. 2:33name and then of course again yov says my name is yov and then the Mal…
4. 4:09I'm the bakar and the truth is this characterized much of yob A's life he was…
5. 5:47the name the name is means ultimately again to the ability to go ahead and master…
6. 7:26because we know like tell us more than the baby wants to nurse the mother wants…
7. 8:29yourself as is then at the end of the day is waiting for you maybe better…
8. 10:05reunited in some cases unfortunately that not whole families but people loved ones are being reunited…
9. 11:41identity because what we show the world is that yes when you trample upon us and…
10. 13:20the victim I may start out as a Yakov but I will find the strength to…

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