The Three Gifts - A Marriage Parable

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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.

really impressed he saw how the older couple the the husband was always the way he spoke spoke to his wife honey sweetie darling dolly and finally he said to the said to the old man he says I can't how do you do it he says do what I mean how do you just you're so romantic after 50 years every time you speaking to your wife honey speaking to your wife honey dolly sweetie darling the old guy says I can't remember her name okay so I'm gonna tell you a story the story begins with a simple man sitting in shul at the rabbi's class sitting in shul at the rabbi's class this is an old in an old wood shul in the old country and there's big long table where the rabbi gives his class and the simple man is seated there and he's trying to pay attention he's trying to understand what the rabbi's teaching and he's a simple man he can't follow along and he begins to feel frustrated with himself he gets up but he walks away from the class and he wanders away from the class and he wanders outside and as he's pacing in front of the shoe lamenting his thick brain that can't absorb the words of Torah a mysterious stranger appears and says what's troubling you and you look troubled and the simple man says yeah no matter what I do the words of Torah don't don't penetrate my brain so the don't don't penetrate my brain so the mysterious stranger says ah I have something for that and he pulls out a parchment and on the parchment is written the olive base when the mysterious stranger says read the olive base from this parchment and your eyes will become open and your mind will become open to the words of Toro but make one promise to me that

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1. 0:00really impressed he saw how the older couple the the husband was always the way he…
2. 6:12stranger appears and says what's troubling you you look you look disturbed and the young man…
3. 12:29comes to our cottage we're so over you know where we're out of the way we're…
4. 18:59a second question is even let's say he couldn't help him but you don't just have…
5. 25:24that makes him whole that gives him that thing that he is lacking and then what…
6. 31:39enough learn some more I'll see if it changes I don't was the point is the…
7. 37:56those last eight verses so that's how she explains it that it's because of the okay…
8. 44:11you know the pause' can tell him says Siddiqui Tamara Arras Bella Vernon yes get that…
9. 50:27who is a provider financially emotionally spiritually socially provider in every sense of the word so…
10. 56:51and maybe if we saw our marriages as an opportunity for that we'd well at the…

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