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Vayishlach · Rabbi Benjy's Shiur

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  It's Friday, is it about tariff? The center of Vegas la.
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  Even in the second book of the Torah is called safe,
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  Hashimoto's. The book of names names.
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  Actually play quite a an important role in the opening
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  section of the terror, we re divided the beginning.
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  How the first man was able to name all the different animals
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  and he understood not just what words to use to call the
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  animals, but names speak to her definition to the essence of a
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  thing. There's a prize when cover names
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  her children rather than her husband.
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  All Dom who is gifted this ability to understand the
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  essence of things, why would she Chosen?
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  And not him? We meet avraham and we remind
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  that he was actually called Abram and his wife Sarai and
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  then their names are changed. Its got its given his name.
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  People see a sovereign, they call him a salvin, there's
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  yaakov holding onto the ankle and well, he must be called
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  yaakov because a Kevin we get a sense that names are Really
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  essential key to understanding what's going on in a narrative
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  in this week's edra after the fight, whatever that fight scene
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  was with yaakov and something, we'll leave that for another
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  time. The terror says you will no
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  longer be called Jacob, your name will be used trial.
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  So he named him Israel. This is not just as Rabbi sacks
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  and adjustment of an existing Name by the change of or an
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  addition of a letter like when Hashem changed our vram to
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  avraham authority to Sarah, It's an entirely new name.
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  As if to say you're going to have a complete change of
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  character. It's therefore puzzling that
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  having said twice that its name will no longer be called yaakov
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  the Torah immediately the first image a cough and we do that as
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  well. So avram Yitzhak and Yakov
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  alekseyev Rommel. Okay, let's talk.
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  Hello. Kay Jakob, we don't really sell.
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  Okay, you're strong. So what does that mean?
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  What's going on here? How can the try make the
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  statement you will no longer be called yaakov but years through
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  our land then seemingly forget that the statements just been
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  made. So the reduction of David Kim.
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  He suggests that the meaning of the phrase you will no longer be
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  called Yeager of means your name will no longer only be called
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  Jackal. But that's a bit of a crutch
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  because That Oracle has had only and it didn't.
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  So we'll, what does that mean? There's stuff owner of a job.
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  Of a job Ben yaakov. Thus the Foreigner born in 1470,
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  he said something also little bit strange in the Messianic
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  age, your name will be called. Yes, Rel not yonko, that's also
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  difficult because the terms we speak about the distant future
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  so it's the one that's about to happen.
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  So there's two explanations are troubling, perhaps you like
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  them, but you have to explain The Oddities in that in the
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  language of the pasok. The third approach.
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  Is more fascinating, sweet as follows.
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  Don't read it as a statement, but as a request, a challenge
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  Hashem is issuing an invitation to Yakov don't read as you will
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  no longer be called Jacob but Israel, read it, as let your
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  name no longer be archived. But Israel, meaning don't be
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  what Yakov represents rather be what the name you swear L
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  represents. So the obvious question now is,
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  what does that mean? What does that?
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  How does what does that? What does it represent?
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  Yaakov argues Rabbi sacks represents personality
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  personality. That's a little bit afraid.
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  I'm sure of who he was. It was yaakov that deceived his
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  father in Yakov that pretended to be somebody else.
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  But Israel Australia is strong. You fought you on, you overcame,
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  You Know Who You Are. The fact that the Turin
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  tradition still use the word, Yakov not just useful tells us
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  that the problem is not yet disappeared.
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  Jakob seems to have wrestled. With this concept, the whole of
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  his life and we do today, it takes courage to be different in
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  minority. In a larger culture.
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  It's easy to live in the moment like a soul to be like the
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  peoples of the world as you have skill set.
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  But the prophet said, don't try and be like the peoples of the
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  world to work for you doesn't work for the Jews and in these
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  few days before the Festival of Hanukkah which is all about
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  standing up and saying we've got our own path, we don't need to
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  copy, you don't need to emulate, you don't need to pretend to be
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  which would Proud To Be Who We Are.
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  So that's bless each other. That's bless ourselves to
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  discover the history, L quality, and all of us, the Courage, The
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  Bravery to stand upright and walk tall and the path of Faith.
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  The path of our ancestors, have a fantastic day, and the
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  wonderful shops.