A Torah shiur by Rabbi Meir Simcha Sperling on the concept of Vayimaen.
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Shalom u’Bracha to the entire Vayimaen family. I want to share a fascinating idea that can give us tremendous Chizuk, in helping us overpower the Yetzer Hara. In the story of Rus, we find that Machlon and Kilyon sinned by marrying non-Jewish women. The Alshich points out that Kilyon, who was the younger brother, was completely forgotten, never to be mentioned again. And Machlon, on the other hand, who did the exact same Aveira, same thing, he was zoche not only to be remembered, but that the Malchus of Dovid HaMelech himself,
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- 0:06Shalom u’Bracha to the entire Vayimaen family. I want to share a fascinating idea that can…
- 0:36where Moshiach comes from, came to be through his wife, Rus, and really through him, with…
- 1:06He was younger. We see from here, says the Alshich, that although it's true that Machlon…
- 1:37so he also ended up copying him and falling to his Yetzer Hara. Now there are…
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