Lessons on Parshat Vayishlach

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

Shalom so I've lost my voice and I found this sweetest teaching on this week's Pasha this week's Pasha Yakov is coming back to Israel and Yakov represents Purity godliness and spirituality and he has to face off with asav his brother and asav represents physicality and ego and selfishness and all evil B basically and their brothers all evil B basically and their brothers so obviously this meeting it's like amazing meeting is the archetypal meeting of good versus evil of the versus the of your Godly side against your animal side this is what's going on here basically is basically the greatest para in the Torah because it's setting the scene for all of each person's personal battle and the whole of history that Battle of light versus dark this is that Battle of light versus dark this is what's happening here obviously we're reading it as we're coming up to kanah and Kaneka is all about finding the light in the darkness so basically he prepares in three ways yakob prepares in three ways he prays it's always the best preparation for anything get Hashem in the game he sends gifts to appease his brother obviously cabalistic the gifts are a message and you don't have time time for that today and he prepares for time for that today and he prepares for war you got to do all of these things got to get ready you got to preparing for war is normal human effort it's very good to have imuna I rely on hasem has will do everything but hasem want Hashem helps those who help themselves so you do rely on Hashem you DAV but you're like I'm going to prepare for war and then he brings everyone across the river and then he goes back to get some little stuff it's like why do you care

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1. 0:02Shalom so I've lost my voice and I found this sweetest teaching on this week's Pasha…
2. 2:32so it was a very important piece but it basically says yov was left alone and…
3. 5:06praise Hashem so firstly amazing thing that all angels are working for Hashem there's no even…
4. 7:50psychedelic experience really and he damaged his his sen what's it called sciatic nerve right yeah…
5. 10:23okay you didn't kill me ma that's not enough so when we teach about Jewish survival…
6. 13:29stuff that we don't gain from him this I I spoke to First not about hasem…
7. 16:02for our fight which means basically he goes on to say that I'll just read it…
8. 18:40after all the terrible things we go through there should be Redemption and salvation that's what…
9. 21:13him you you're called Israel because s you struggled you fought with God and man and…
10. 23:51alone and not be influenced by the world around him and Hashem he had a deep…

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