New Year, Same You? | Parshat Vayechi

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

at the end of his life lived 17 years in mit. Whenever you hear the word 17, what should you think to yourself? It's the gamma of 17 gamma tov. And the sages say they were the best years of his life. And we're in the month of Tevet. What's the root of the word? So we've got a theme happening here in this in this time of year. And we got to understand that the whole of creation understand that the whole of creation lives in line with the para. The alterbi the first rebi of kabad said you have to live with the times. And he said what does that mean to live with the times? You live with the para. You got to be reading the para over and over again. And we you'll often see things lining up teet these years. But all of the commentaries ask a question. How could it be that Jacob who's who's the most holy of the avot we really say out of Jacob Yakov was the man how can we say that the best years of his life were davka in mitim in the his life were davka in mitim in the lowest darkest place it seems a bit strange you want to be init is everyone knows Israel it's the holiest place on the face of the planet and that mitzvah init Israel are like supercharged and shabas is supercharged is the the Jewish nama needs to be in Israel. When I wanted to learn tawando, I went to a small island off the coast of Korea. When I wanted to learn iikido, I went to Japan. When I wanted to learn yoga, I went to India. When I want to be a Jew,

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3. 5:48managing to go very very deep into the darkness and find the light. So there's a…
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