Vayetze: Staying on the Ladder | Rabbi Ariel Mizrahi

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Okay, good morning everyone and thank you for joining us on this beautiful Monday morning as we are studying together a new and we have with us today begins is running away from his brother from if you remember we read last week's parasa Yakovinu stole all the blessings parasa Yakovinu stole all the blessings from his brother. His brother is very upset. His brother wants to kill him and so Rifka um almost commands her son to run away and to go to uh her brother Lavan. And so the para begins we know he goes out he travels towards But all of a sudden he encounters the But all of a sudden he encounters the place he lodges there and he has a dream. One of the most famous dreams and I'm not sure and correct me if I'm mistaken. I think this is the first dream recorded in the Torah. Could it be? Okay, I'm going to say that right now. I'm just trying to jog my memory. But I think this is the first time a dream is recorded. Correct me if I'm wrong, please, in the chat. But either way, he has a dream. And in the dream, there is a ladder that is standing on earth. And the head of the ladder is in the heavens. And there are angels going up and there are angels going down. God is on top of this ladder. And he says to God says to Jacob, "I'm the God of your father, of your grandfather, and [clears throat] the land that you're on is holy." And God is promising over here. He's promising him that his children will be like the earth, like the afar of the world, soil of the earth. Wow. You will proliferate west, east,

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1. 0:00Okay, good morning everyone and thank you for joining us on this beautiful Monday morning as…
2. 2:35Wow. You will proliferate west, east, north, south. All the families of the earth shall be…
3. 5:13He bumped in. That's what it means. He bumped into a wall for Yakov. Right now…
4. 7:47And all of a sudden, Yakov right here, he's at a crossroad. He's very nervous because…
5. 10:20flights, $1,200. I got to go there now for this meeting. Not excited to leave my…
6. 13:28They have a few minutes. Open up. You're staying in the framework of holiness. Many times…
7. 16:00Surround yourself with holiness. Stay in the framework of Kadusha. You don't need to be in…
8. 18:32have right there on top of the of the ark four beautiful words. I have Hashem…
9. 21:06to punish you. So when you're a child, you have a fear of punishment. As you…
10. 23:43a and a sperm and maybe in a hundred years put them in a in a…

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