The Night That Changed Jewish History — Rabbi YY Jacobson

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Welcome everybody and thank you for gracing us. Today's class is dedicated by Rabbor and Rahul Kaya Kagaritzki in loving memory of Avikdar Ben who passed away on the second day of Kislave to Nishma and may his soul continue to be a source of love and light and inspiration for you and the entire family and all of our people and only have happy and good news. and thank you very very much for news. and thank you very very much for your partnership and friendship and may amen I also want to mention and dedicate the class for a complete and speedy recovery to many long happy prosperous joyous serene years full of productivity and abundance and thank you so Today we are going to Ber Hashem so Today we are going to Ber Hashem explore one of those stories that uh seems to be what you might call in English a hairraising story perplexed enigmatic really difficult to understand it almost looks like there's a lot of pettiness [snorts] or just very primal anger resentment And uh And uh it's written that way maybe so that it can uh really trigger us or or challenge us or arouse us. As I once told you, it's interesting that in the Tanakh, I don't even think there's one story that ever ends with a good feeling. Um, you know, it's not a bedtime story where, you know, Cinderella makes it out on the top and you could now fall asleep into a tranquil tranquil uh slumber. And the reason for that is because bed

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1. 0:01Welcome everybody and thank you for gracing us. Today's class is dedicated by Rabbor and Rahul…
2. 6:09That's Genesis 29:22. I translate in English, not because I suspect that nobody here knows the…
3. 12:23would extend 100 ft, I would run for my life. Call Hatsah, call Miss Callim, call,…
4. 18:34food." And what did you say? Yes, I'm Asov. Whoa. You guys are impressed with Leia,…
5. 24:48means every single Jew is a descendant of Yakov or Leia or Raul or Bill or…
6. 30:57says when you look at somebody, you're seeing a mirror. It doesn't mean that I can't…
7. 37:09to adult. And this made Leia weep and sob so deeply, so intensely, it affected her…
8. 43:30the second line there was a crisis that she was feeling an existential moral crisis. when…
9. 49:39do he tries to do which means what says not like as what's the telling one…
10. 55:46how can I help you see that and with empathy and compassion find your strength and…

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