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BEYOND the STORY | Ep 1 Bereishis

6.5K views · Oct 8, 2026

Rabbi Shais Taub

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Okay. All right. Amazing. Usually the first time of any new technical setup is much harder than that. Okay. I'm going to make a >> If you're watching at home, you can't see this, but we're in a lovely home in Northwood Mir. Our hostess Jaffy has not only made the space available, but basically put together the whole year, the whole idea, the whole concept of it, the whole motivation for it. And um Rev. the whole motivation for it. And um Rev. >> Hm. >> And Rev. >> And Reva. Where's Reva? Okay. Okay. Reva also helped us get the technical side of things set up. And Reva is the best makeup artist probably at least in the five towns, probably the whole tri-state area, [applause] maybe in the world. Okay. Please follow her on Instagram. Okay. Okay. Now the premise of this year first the first class always you know people come out they're excited it's a new thing and then you see if people new thing and then you see if people actually continue to come back but the premise is this we're going to it's it's weekly we're going to go through the the parha but what we're going to do is we're going to look at the stories in the weekly Torah portion that are familiar the stories that we know maybe stories that you've known since you were a but that we haven't gone deeper since we were children and we want to retell the story and go into the depth.

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  1. 0:00Okay. All right. Amazing. Usually the first time of any new technical setup is much harder…
  2. 5:38more or less. Okay. All right. So, let's try to go into it a little bit…
  3. 11:49means he correctly identified the combination of energetic building blocks that come together to create his…
  4. 17:27doesn't explain it because doesn't explain why they're incapable of it. Why wouldn't they be capable…
  5. 23:40hydrodnamics. I want you to split for them, let them through, and then collapse back on…
  6. 29:53point of it is to bring it into again a dwelling place for hem in the…
  7. 35:29though Rashi is explaining it, he says, he says overtly, I'm only talking about simple level.…
  8. 41:42become a physical being. Make sense? Okay. Um, that's also why in the medish, Hashem tells…
  9. 47:25you're this survival impulse which is very selfish and amoral by default, but that's not your…
  10. 53:35refining that spark. So the body is not as much of a distraction as we think…

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