Why Was Moses Afraid to Gaze at G-d? - Parsha Shemos - By Rabbi YY Jacobson

What’s said in this shiur

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

[Music] good evening and welcome to all tonight's class is dedicated by our dear friends ida and david schattenstein in the sacred memory of the kadoshima of mumbai and rabbi gavriel nayak and rivki holzberg the khabar ambassadors to mumbai india the shotensteins also dedicate the class to a young soul alta shula swordlove to a young soul alta shula swordlove the daughter of hindu and rabbayasi swordlove it was my friends the most faithful encounter in jewish history a slow movement in his symphony of life moses is shepherding the flock of his father-in-law jethro father-in-law jethro in the wilderness near midian far away from pharaoh from the israelites from the bitter exile in egypt moses is now alone shepherding his father-in-law's sheep when suddenly he comes across that famous burning bush ablaze with a great fire and yet not being consumed and moses says let me go and consumed and moses says let me go and look and understand the secret of this bush which burns and yet does not get consumed and it is as this moment when an angel of god appears to moses from amidst the burning bush and calls out his name moshe moshe and he says he naini here i am now please open up your curriculum your source sheet and a pdf right below your source sheet and a pdf right below the video to source number one describing this moment this encounter at the burning bush possible it says vayar hashem ki sarlira is god sees that moses look to see and he calls out his name moshe motion he says

Jump to a moment

1. 5:34see this great sight of a bush which burns and does not get burnt up this…
2. 11:15that must be asked we understand the first two instances the talmud quotes moses hides his…
3. 16:51by the almighty as his ambassador to set the hebrews free from their horrible and horrific…
4. 22:31for the pagan for the ancient pagan and for the contemporary atheist this is not a…
5. 28:14appreciate the benefits which come from the pain and when we endure pain which clearly leads…
6. 34:02we just look at pain and we ask why who gains from this what goodness is…
7. 39:45when the mother animal is about to give birth to her offspring but our perspective of…
8. 45:32that he would lose his primary quality as a rapper as a jew to seal the…
9. 51:17why and so we see a fascinating thing in the story of job and this is…

Every second of this shiur plays inside Lehallel — a filtered YouTube library of Torah, music and shiurim. No ads, no comments, no autoplay.