Parshat Toldot: Choices in Life - Rabbi Meyer Yedid

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

[Music] in this parish shall we find the intersection on a road that each person on that road made a decision it took a different turn at that intersection it's like a it's like you have two people driving on the highway two people driving on the highway as far as the onlooker sees they're going through the same place and then comes the intersection and is at that intersection on the highway that we're able to see where each one is going in the history of the world there has been one great nation called army-style a nation that has accomplished more than any other nation in the world a nation whose existence allows the world exist a nation who has a very very special and unique mission a nation of great individuals there's literally giving humanity a different look a nation of kedusha a nation that we are all to be proud to be part of and then they are the other nations all the great empires the Roman Empire the Greeks and throughout history all the powerful nations and when we look at history we find that at some point they were on the same highway going what seemingly looked like the same place these nations primarily came from I sell ice Avenue Yaakov represent two great nations and they were together on the highway and at some point there was an intersection or maybe an exit and I stopped got off the highway and this exit that he took from the highway forever changed his destiny and changed the world and the acog did not get off Yaakov continued and it's important for all of us to know what was the exit that made I serve I sell what is it about Assad that didn't allow him to continue the course so the

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