Vayeitzei | Likkutei Sichos Vol. 1

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

Welcome to the Soul Words house, just a half a block from the aisle. We're joined by Well, first I'll mention the front row, our two friends from Los Angeles, California. Um I didn't even ask your names, but you could say your names if you want or not. Could be Rifka >> Chaya. >> and Chaya. Classic names. Rifka was in the parsha last week. It was your birthday last week? Happy birthday. Amazing. Chaya is an evergreen name. I have a Chaya. Yeah. You know, that's funny. I have a daughter named Chaya. Can you believe that? Um okay. And we have all the way from Philadelphia students from Penn with my friend Levi Yitzchok Halevi, who I've known for decades. Known him Well, since we were not wee lads, but when we were definitely uh young rabbinic students. in Lawrence or is it Inwood? Where is Kosher? Well, we only use Kosher for all of our needs. Okay. Um today's shiur is dedicated l'illui nishmas in the uh memory of for the elevation of the soul of Yitzchok Yankev Halevi or Yitzchok Yankev ben Ben Zion Halevi by his daughter Batsheva, which I'm just going to use my little Sherlock Holmes uh powers of deduction here, but I'm assuming that Batsheva is named after her grandfather, her paternal grandfather Bentzion. My paternal great-grandfather was also named Bentzion. Grant my grandfather's father was named Bentzion. Um and his yahrzeit was yesterday, base Kislev. Um Batsheva actually

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1. 0:00Welcome to the Soul Words house, just a half a block from the aisle. We're joined…
2. 6:41Torah says two reasons for the name of Beersheba. Why is Beersheba called Beersheba? Because of…
3. 12:52the world. Okay. So young giving is going to set up the archetypical Jewish home and…
4. 19:06walked the walk, talked the talk, right? He should have assimilated a little bit to the…
5. 24:42Very good. The Rebbe's and the Rebbe and the Rebbe's um anniversary is Do we know?…
6. 30:47Base, the other way is you give you get reish cho. Toil of the head. Er…
7. 37:00getting into this new phase of his life was to make sure that his head was…
8. 42:41Discipline. And that means not seichel, not hergesh. The Rebbe said it's not seichel, it's not…
9. 48:51dem." But the oath that you've already taken forces you to do it, compels you to…
10. 55:29eager as is get no man meet us as lame as in the end it all…

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