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Project Likkutei Sichos — Vayeitzei 5784

Выпуск: Project Likkutei Sichos — Vayeitzei 5784. Темы: не определены автоматически. Reciting the fifteen psalms of the stones of the place and placed [them] corresponding to the overlapping lifespans at his head, and he lay down in that place.” of Avraham, Yitzchak, and Yaakov, alludes to (Bereishis 28:11) Yaakov’s marshaling the forces of all these The sages inferred from the phrase, “he lay emotions in his battle against Lavan. Yaakov This is alluded to in the first chapter of the understood that the descent into exile was fifteen psalms, “I come in peace, but when I only in order to allow him to reap greater speak, they come to wage war.” (Tehillim spiritual light from the darkness. Therefore, 120:7) A Jew does not seek out darkness even if the experience of exile itself was and confrontation, “I come in peace,” but painful and dark, he was able to “sing” when G-d nonetheless places a Jew in exile, within it because he knew it was leading to he does not cower, he sings. The question “what did Yaakov say'' during those twenty sleepless years is not simply Singing in the Dark: “what was he occupied with?” We know he These psalms are called “songs of ascent,” was busy shepherding Lavan’s flocks. Hamaalos, in Tehillim.” (Bereishis Rabbah Similarly, Yaakov contended with his enemy 68:11) by concentrating all his spiritual weaponry, The Explanation: love, awe, and compassion, one one negative entity at a time. down in that place” that Yaakov only slept During the Alter Rebbe’s lifetime, a war was there, on the way to Lavan, but during his fought where the victor concentrated all twenty years with Lavan he did not sleep. The patriarchs each embodied one of the three “He arrived at the place and lodged there primary Divine emotions, love, awe, and because the sun had set, and he took some compassion. The Midrash: The Chidah explains that the fifteen psalms Yaakov fled Eisav for his uncle Lavan in correspond to the fifteen years when all Charan. He recited the fifteen the enemy, overwhelming that one division chapters of “Song of Ascents,” Shir and paving the way for an easy conquest. How was Yaakov “singing” as Yaakov maintain his connection with G-d, he entered into exile with Lavan?

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Project Likkutei Sichos

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