Parshas Lech Lecha: The Childless Couple

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

even I'm even more uncomfortable sitting up here on the stage like a fish in a fish tank um so between those two things this is not one of the most uh Pleasant experiences right now but okay so we know is married many years and he's not blessed with children so the says the wife of AR takes haar her Egyptian made servant after 10 years that AB had already been living in the land of Canan and she gives her to Abraham her husband as a wife so the pasuk um is giving us a few Clues first of allu is married happily for many years and he's married of course to S and they live in padam for many many decades they're happily married they don't have children they come to Canan they're married 10 years SAR says 10 years we don't have children she takes the maid servant she gives a maid servant to Abraham to live with and immediately this maid servant Hagar becomes pregnant and she conceives a child and yala is born from here the deres look at number two and this is a a very sad you could say uh almost a very unfortunate a pathetic someone gets married and you wait 10 years and unfortunately one does not have children you can't let things be you cannot continue so what do you do says rash here are the two options you have two options either you could divorce your wife or you have to marry someone else we don't allow you to remain as

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1. 0:30even I'm even more uncomfortable sitting up here on the stage like a fish in a…
2. 5:28know name you never know in other words just like the says you teach when you're…
3. 10:56live in Israel only then do we say if you're together 10 years without a child…
4. 16:10right and then went says the rush he didn't go he was he was lazy he…
5. 21:34to know and that is what's the okay we're not going to get involved exactly what…
6. 27:08in by the way you should know rash agrees to the rush and he's against Rashi…
7. 32:06go she loses you could force her to go says by the way I believe a…
8. 37:25circumstances says what about a guy that never made krishma one day in his life he…
9. 42:42have an of living in but still they don't have the positive Merit and the positive…
10. 48:13guy he's a sick guy he thinks he should be happy that that somebody married him…

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