Can You Be Nostalgic for the Future? | Parshas Vayigash

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

so this Jewish guy goes into business and he has some success and he wants to show his mother that he made it his mother is you know from the old country so he sends her something very lavish something very classy champagne and caviar and he doesn't get a response so he calls her and he says ah how did you like the gift she says it was very thoughtful he said yeah but it was classy right she says it was very thoughtful it's just it was really you know five-star yeah world class she says I gotta tell you I don't know you know what what fancy means but the ginger ale was sour and the poppy seeds tasted like Herrick anyways so this week Joseph is discovered alive as the ruler of mitzrayim and he sends word back to his father and he sends gifts will obvious to his father a man in this week's partial pressures for you gosh Derrick mem hey pasa cough mo 45:23 of it to his father Shalala his icy scent like this Sarika made him ten donkeys nice him carrying me to mitzrayim the best of Egypt or the goodness of Egypt what's the goodness of Egypt you know I don't know how much you guys are connoisseurs a fine you know American culture but there's a very there's a very gourmet drink called Milwaukee's best that's like I'm joking because it's like this is this beer that you get for like 20 cents a can or any place but it's called Milwaukee's best so what's Milwaukee's best it's a beer right okay so what's a specced tools mitts ryan what's egypt's best so what did he send this father I don't know what that means so Rashi tells me machinima talmud I find in the founders in the gomorian good morning become on a megillah' mashaallah la yaani ocean

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1. 0:00so this Jewish guy goes into business and he has some success and he wants to…
2. 1:46me to mitzrayim the best of Egypt or the goodness of Egypt what's the goodness of…
3. 3:17when they met him they drank wine so you could and and the case of himself…
4. 4:49question to think about so I'll tell you a story that I remember it sounds like…
5. 6:23llevaba chewed-up at 770 Sunday dollars ok 1991 that I was still giving dollars in total…
6. 7:55gave him two dollars and this time said basura Stivers good news may there be good…
7. 9:31ten years after he got the bracha passed he gave birth meaning seventeen years after they…
8. 11:01in one sense in one sentence explains what is be talking such a tangible practical accessible…
9. 12:33this with me the whole time from the day we were separated I knew there would…
10. 14:05joke they say why was he famous a bigger miracle than Hanukkah because Hanukkah what enough…

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