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Shnayim Yomi - Shemot - Rishon - #1- Rabbi Shlomo Landau
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Rabbi Shlomo Landau Director, Olami Mentors North America Lakewood, NJ Click below for today's text of Shnayim Mikra: https://shnayimyomi.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/1-compressed.pdf ShnayimYomi.org
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it's Rabbi Shalom oando and here is
something incredibly powerful about the
first Aliyah in par sham you know the
first p in the entire sa sh is an
introduction to the formula the secret
recipe of how the Jewish people survived
the decadence and the immorality that
was Egypt take a look at this
P the first component is shise the name
of the book why is names the name of the
book K teach us that in Egypt Leu sham
the Jewish people maintained their
Jewish names they didn't feel a need to
assimilate and integrate and take on
Egyptian names they were proud of their
Jewish names that was the first
ingredient and the recipe for Jewish
survival the second
one that are coming to Egypt in the
present tense shouldn't it be that came
in the past tense the answer is that
even 100 150 years into the Egyptian
existence the Jewish people never for a
moment felt acclimated they felt like
foreigners people who had just come the
society the morals the values the
culture of Egyptian Society is just not
us we are immigrants and we will always
be that
way Yakov they came with Yakov the image
of Yakov sear deeply into their
conscience ysf has a challenge in saer
barus he's about to capitulate to the
wife of potifar all of a sudden his
father's image appears before him and
that gives him the inner strength and
fortitude to pass this incredibly
difficult Challenge and ordeal the
Jewish people when they made decisions
in Egypt it was always as yic what would
Yakov have done and then finally and
perhaps most importantly ish UB
they came with their homes that means
maybe they were living in a culture in a
society where the street was trafe it
was impure it was unethical but when
they closed the front door of their
homes they were transported back to
their homes in Canan in is with their
father amongst the shtim The Jewish Home
was never contaminated it wasn't
impacted and affected by that which was
on the Egyptian Street these ingredients
are the ingredients for the survival the
Eternal survival of the Jewish people we
need to be proud of who we are we need
to retain our Jewish identity we need to
understand who are our role models Yakov
isra and then finally to understand the
power and the preciousness of the Holy
Jewish Home we can close the door to the
street and we can be in a sanctuary and
Abode of Shina of holiness
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