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Video Study for Parasha Vayeitzei : Yaakovs Ladder and more

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muman613:
Shalom my JTF friends,

I am writing this on Thanksgiving while home on 'holiday' from work. According to my belief that a Jew finds happiness and joy through the deep study of Torah I am spending this day doing just that. I try to spend at least 1-2 hours a day studying Judaism and Jewish issues and even more time lending my opinion and support to Israel and Jewish causes. So let me offer some videos and commentary on the portion we are reading this Shabbat. I will be spending this Shabbat at one of my close Rabbis simcha. Last week his wife delivered his fifth child and his second son and I will celebrate with them at the Brit Milah {Baruch Hashem!}.

We are reading the portion of Vayeitzei which is another EPIC portion. We read about Jacobs incredible vision of the angels going up and coming down from the ladder to heaven. We also learn about how Jacob fled from his brother to find a wife in the house of his uncle, the crooked Laban. It is here that he is tricked into marrying the older sister Leah and had to work another seven years in order to marry his original love Rachel.

Yaakov and his wives and their handmaids (concubines) have many children, twelve in all, from Rueben to Yosef... Eventually, after twenty years working for crooked old Laban, the family wants to leave Labans home and build his (and the Jewish peoples) legacy.

Here is the 'Parasha in a Nutshell' from the Chabad site:


--- Quote ---Jacob leaves his hometown of Beersheba and journeys to Charan. On the way, he encounters “the place” and sleeps there, dreaming of a ladder connecting heaven and earth, with angels climbing and descending on it; G‑d appears and promises that the land upon which he lies will be given to his descendants. In the morning, Jacob raises the stone on which he laid his head as an altar and monument, pledging that it will be made the house of G‑d.

In Haran, Jacob stays with and works for his uncle Laban, tending Laban’s sheep. Laban agrees to give him his younger daughter, Rachel—whom Jacob loves—in marriage, in return for seven years’ labor. But on the wedding night, Laban gives him his elder daughter, Leah, instead—a deception Jacob discovers only in the morning. Jacob marries Rachel, too, a week later, after agreeing to work another seven years for Laban.

Leah gives birth to six sons—Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar and Zebulun—and a daughter, Dinah, while Rachel remains barren. Rachel gives Jacob her handmaid, Bilhah, as a wife to bear children in her stead, and two more sons, Dan and Naphtali, are born. Leah does the same with her handmaid, Zilpah, who gives birth to Gad and Asher. Finally, Rachel’s prayers are answered and she gives birth to Joseph.

Jacob has now been in Charan for fourteen years, and wishes to return home. But Laban persuades him to remain, now offering him sheep in return for his labor. Jacob prospers, despite Laban’s repeated attempts to swindle him. After six years, Jacob leaves Charan in stealth, fearing that Laban would prevent him from leaving with the family and property for which he labored. Laban pursues Jacob, but is warned by G‑d in a dream not to harm him. Laban and Jacob make a pact on Mount Gal-Ed, attested to by a pile of stones, and Jacob proceeds to the Holy Land, where he is met by angels.
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Rabbi Shafiers short talk:


Rabbi Richman on the Parasha (What is the foundation stone?):


The difference of vision of the 'Makom/Place' between the Patriarchs:


Rabbi Weisblum on Vayeitzei (on negotiating with Laban) :

muman613:
Rabbi Finklestein talking about Jewish prayer in the Parasha:


Another great Rabbi Richman dvar Torah:


Rabbi Herschel Finman on the Parasha:


Another Rabbi Shafier 'Shmuz':

muman613:
The 'kabbalah' inclined Rabbi Chaim Miller giving his 'Torah in Ten' talk on this parasha...



Rabbi Yitzak Ginsburg gives another 'kabbalah' inspired talk about the Parasha, relating it to giving thanks to Hashem...

muman613:
And here is Rabbi Trugmans Chassidic Parasha which runs 1h10m...

muman613:
Rabbi Jacobson gives a long 1h25m talk on appreciation. He relates todays portion, the relationship between Yaakov and Laban, as a lesson on showing appreciation...

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