FAMILY REUNION

Episode 49 February 20, 2022 01:32:25
FAMILY REUNION
Purim With Rabbi Kaplan
FAMILY REUNION

Feb 20 2022 | 01:32:25

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Show Notes

Talmud Tisch - Intermediate Talmud Masechet Megillah Daf/Page - 16b - Class # 49 Opening on the hems of a seeming Wardrobe Malfunction, in this episode we continue to focus on an early period of our unique Jewish Saga, when we were comprised of only Jacob's nuclear family. Clearly, our Sages saw the details of patriarchal precedents presaging the future. In their illuminated view, these actions taken in antiquity were impelled by prophetic intuitions. A story of larger larger-than-life spiritual titans battling dark forces in distant watershed moments at events occurring many centuries later. In looking beyond the obvious drama of a predictable emotional outburst, the Sages discerned more than ordinary tears, or weeping symptomatic of a typical Family Reunion that healed historic Sibling Separation! Mysterious messages to be deciphered include a secret message encoded into the choice of a gift item for an old man. Does every dog really have his day as a clever fox, and can smoke actually extinguish fire? Most of all, what in Heaven does any of this have to do with the story of Purim! Rabbi Mendel Kaplan

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