The Ghosts of Gilad -- Time to Confront Our Family Skeletons

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

welcome everybody today's class is dedicated by Dina dornbush with a blessing and a prayer for MIM for the release and liberation of all of our hostages amen thank you very very much next week there will be a classem and uh the week afterwards Tuesdays TSH so there won't be a class and a few weeks there'll be a break after that so next next week will still be a class okay you have a source sheet One Source sheet if you didn't get it should be on the beima we're going to explore something that at the surface would seem not so relevant and even if relevant certainly not so dramatic and even if dramatic not that dramatic and even if dramatic not that dramatic or cataclysmic or so impactful something that at the surface would seem quite I would say maybe anticlimactic if that's the proper word everybody knows what anticlimactic means okay and yet upon a deeper reflection a whole new uh layer of interpretation uh layer of interpretation emerges and we come to see and discover a tapestry that it's easy to dis it's easy to to miss and furthermore one with profound meaning and relevance all the way to this very age and to this very time this week we conclude SA it's the fourth book of or in the English name it's Genesis and numbers and Leviticus I'm sorry Genesis and exodus and Leviticus and numbers and Deuteronomy this week this week we finish sa midbar in many ways you could say that uh saer Bidar is really the conclusion of T to a certain degree because the fifth book is called Mish which means a repetition of and the reason is because all of does not record

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1. 0:03welcome everybody today's class is dedicated by Dina dornbush with a blessing and a prayer for…
2. 6:10the Jordan River which means the Eastern side where today you have the country of Jordan…
3. 12:22anomaly but it's fascinating and T every little detail opens up Vistas to much larger stories…
4. 18:34dimensions and it's a work of intellectual and spiritual archaeology so I credit him and I…
5. 24:46call them as God the ran Compares it to something that we would call today a…
6. 31:02has a name has a different name Lin says this g g is a mound a…
7. 37:14took the blessings now again it says yov is again hiding he once again stole he…
8. 43:20mechanisms and now when you tell this person confront it could sound like a death sentence…
9. 49:50hard it's like if somebody has a disease inside they don't want to deal with it…
10. 56:06beautiful Le it says Le represents the unconscious World The Hidden World you get to the…

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