The Voice of Yaakov - Parshat Toldot

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

Okay, morning everybody. Paras told us I have to have an interesting conversation with my my kids. Some of them are like uh older than you, some of them are younger than you. And the question goes like this. Is the nooyan more difficult for young people nowadays than it was in previous generations? >> What do you mean? >> Soyan means a challenge. The challenges of you know being from >> being Jewish. So is it more or is it less? less? >> You think it's more? >> So we talk about this quite often. >> It seems to me on the one hand that of course every generation has to have the equipment to stand up to the Nissan otherwise it's not aan. The whole whole idea of the test is on the one hand it has to be hard enough to be a test and easy enough that you aren't going to definitely fail otherwise it's not a test. It's a knockout. So on the other hand there is a concept that as we get further and further closer and closer to Messiah closer and closer to Messiah things become more and more opaque darker more cloudy more difficult to see the truth more difficult to make the correct decisions and decisions that the gashmia so to speak dominates is much more powerful than it was we've been discussing this with throughout the week but I want to speak focus specifically on the on where we are today and the world we live in because everything everything is written in the Torah. It's

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