The Significance of Small Jugs | Rabbi Menachem Feifer

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[music] >> The Torah tells us by you will see Yakov Lavado and that night preceding the meeting between Yakov and Esau of Russia, Yakov was left by himself and because I will tell us a very strange idea that he left his family and was all by himself. He went back to get Pahim Ketanim which translates as small jugs. What was the significance of these small jugs? Why would Yakov put himself in danger over Pahim Ketanim? I'm no expert in Gematrias, but I saw a I'm no expert in Gematrias, but I saw a Gematria in a safer that explains this in a very unique, remarkable way. Pahim Ketanim said this vowel safer this Mahaber stands for the small noises in a person's life, the trivial, seemingly meaningless, small tests that the Ribono shel Olam is constantly throwing our way. This was the battle between Yakov Avinu and the Malach shel Esau otherwise known as the Yetzer Hara and the Satan. This is where a person becomes great. This is

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2. 0:35I'm no expert in Gematrias, but I saw a Gematria in a safer that explains this…
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