Vayhi: Leaders Smile | Rabbi Ariel Mizrahi

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

Okay, good morning everyone. Thank you for joining us on this beautiful Tuesday morning. Tuesday morning. Today is actually a fast. Today is the fast of where put a siege around Jerusalem and it lasted for a few months until eventually he breached through the walls in Tamuz and he destroyed the temple a few weeks later. [snorts] So it's a day of introspection. It's a day to think about the beta mikdash and what we can do to rebuild it. We fast today in order to be able to focus and maybe think to be able to focus and maybe think about uh what's important and uh not to be distracted uh with food and with being joyful. So we try to take the day a little bit more seriously today. [snorts] And of course we know the beta mikdash was destroyed because of because of hatred that we had. And I think it ties in to a beautiful idea that I want to share with you in this week's parasa. this week's he is blessing his children and each one he is blessing his children and each one gets a blessing one by one we spoke yesterday about the blessings that he gave to the first few sons and how they all had this characteristic this common denominator of when it comes to Yehudah he says to him the following your eyes will be red from wine. It means you're going to have a lot of wine, right? If you ever saw a guy drunk, his eyes they get red. It's a

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1. 0:00Okay, good morning everyone. Thank you for joining us on this beautiful Tuesday morning. Tuesday morning.…
2. 2:30says he stretches it to a different lesson. He says he is being told by his…
3. 5:04And that is the that is such a false idea. It's such a mistake because true…
4. 7:40"I am not giving you power. I'm giving you servitude. You're sure you want it?" That's…
5. 10:48father is sitting with his family, every normal father make sure his kids eat first. Here,…
6. 13:24people. Not on top. Not on top. But ultimately a true leader is a servant. And…
7. 16:01Your job as a king is to make people smile. Your job as a king is…
8. 19:06like how they make me feel. They're always thinking about me. They're always, you know, buying…
9. 21:39quickly we realize we can't just take. No one's going to want to be our friends.…
10. 24:11to be a ruler to be a demander. I said a dictator that is not a…

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