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Speaker 1: Welcome to Timeless Wisdom with Dennis Prager. Here thousands of

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Speaker 2: Parts.

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Speaker 3: And since this is verse five verse, that's the way

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Speaker 3: I promise it, and I figured, well, walk, I'll come

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Speaker 3: in and I'll apologize to the clinics.

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Speaker 2: I'll say, look, it is my obligation to read you

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Speaker 2: all the stories. There's not much to.

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Speaker 3: Be learned, and we'll move on. And the more I study,

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Speaker 3: the more.

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Speaker 2: I fell in love with chapter twenty four.

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Speaker 3: Which is the longest chapter I believe in the Bora,

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Speaker 3: and certainly in Genesis. Twenty three has its own interesting parts,

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Speaker 3: but it is more narrative. And we're up to twenty three.

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Speaker 3: And you'll see what I mean. Let me get to

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Speaker 3: twenty four, okay, with some speed so that but you

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Speaker 3: don't have to look in just listening, I hope there's enough.

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Speaker 3: Since I'm not delineating every sentence in this case so carefully,

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Speaker 3: I'm not going to do Freighter's translation like I often

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Speaker 3: don't to give you the literal, but rather mean from

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Speaker 3: Monsostick make.

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Speaker 2: Up for times all right.

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Speaker 3: Verse one twenty three, Chapter twenty three, Genesis, Sarah's lifetime.

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Speaker 3: The span of Sarah's life take to one hundred and

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Speaker 3: twenty seven years.

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Speaker 2: Already, there's something interesting to know here.

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Speaker 3: Number one, that one hundred and twenty seven means something.

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Speaker 3: All the years in Genesis mean something. What they generally

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Speaker 3: don't mean is precision. One twenty seven is not how

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Speaker 3: long she lived. We don't know how long she lived.

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Speaker 3: Maybe she didn't live that long, but that's not the

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Speaker 3: point being conveyed here. The point being conveyed here is

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Speaker 3: the number one twenty seven in Atio of one hundred

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Speaker 3: and twenty is the ideal lifespan. That's Moses' lifespan, and

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Speaker 3: seven is a sacred number from the set up in

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Speaker 3: Days of Creation through many uses of seven in the Tooro.

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Speaker 3: So she is so special that she lived the idea

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Speaker 3: lifetime plus the sacred number seven.

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Speaker 3: They read this a long time ago. Remember we have

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Speaker 3: our mindset. A week or twenty five hundred years ago,

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Speaker 3: or more likely a listener whould have said, wow, one

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Speaker 2: But we in the science and mathematical age are thinking, well,

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Speaker 2: she lived one hundred and twenty seven, that she died a.

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Speaker 3: Year earlier, she would have lived one hundred and twenty six.

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Speaker 3: That's how we think. That's not how they thought. Hearing

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Speaker 3: as I pointed out with the forty days of the

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Speaker 3: of the flood, forty is it a forty invataural.

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Speaker 2: Means one thing Allah, that's all it means.

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Speaker 3: It never means forty forty years in the desert forty

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Speaker 3: forty again the knights on sine eye forty of the flood.

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Speaker 3: It means a lot one twenty seven is a great number.

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Speaker 3: Wasn't to this interesting point which I read in one place?

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Speaker 3: And unless you know it to be false, I assume

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Speaker 3: age is given. That's how special she is. And by

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Speaker 3: the way, I keep bringing this out as a subtext

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Speaker 2: And I need to do it again. You know, I

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Speaker 3: Any special eye that I am aware of to look

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Speaker 3: for something. For example, I don't read the Bible with

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Speaker 3: feminist eyes. I try to read them with my eyes period,

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Speaker 3: looking for affirmative action for the limit of the Bible.

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Speaker 2: When I tell you that.

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Speaker 3: You cannot read Genesis honestly and hope that the mainstree

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Speaker 3: overcome by the power of this because it's so not

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Speaker 2: They're not they. Whoever wrote this from God.

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Speaker 3: Say that that Sarah is our matriar almost than Abraham

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Speaker 3: From Isaac and Neveecca, you learn far more about Rebecca

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Speaker 3: begins with the life of Sarah.

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Speaker 2: And by the way, there's a very interesting redundancy.

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Speaker 3: The literal Hebrew, which I'm only going to do sporadically

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Speaker 3: Of the life of Sarah. That's the way that Hebrew

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Speaker 2: This woman mattered, Her years mattered. Twenty three two.

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Speaker 2: That's only about individuals and their suffering.

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Speaker 2: Okay, twenty three the verse verse three.

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Speaker 3: All right, so Abraham wrote from besides Davia spoke to

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Speaker 2: I'm a resident alien.

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Speaker 3: Hear us, my lord, you are the elect of God

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Speaker 3: First of all, put your hand under my thigh.

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Speaker 2: How do you make a deal with someone today? You

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Speaker 2: Correct.

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Speaker 3: Then in those days you would take an oath putting

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Speaker 2: It meant one of them. And by the way, we

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Speaker 3: And I haven't seen mentioned again, but I am convinced

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Speaker 3: Put put puts your hands on my on my testies,

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Speaker 3: Get with a hand under the thigh and the deathbed.

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Speaker 3: This has made your stuff from Abraham that you won't

446
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Speaker 3: let my son.

447
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Speaker 2: Marry a girl from the Canaanites.

448
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Speaker 3: Now why not, m You might say, well, he wants

449
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Speaker 3: them to marry a Jew, but.

450
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Speaker 2: There are no Jews. So that question is do they

451
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Speaker 2: go way might say wanted them to marry a Monothy's

452
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Speaker 2: whole Monothy is in those days.

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Speaker 3: The issue has nothing to do with race and ethnicity or.

454
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Speaker 2: Even have to do with Monotheism.

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Speaker 3: It has to do, I believe, because I went through

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Speaker 3: a lot of sources on.

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Speaker 2: This, overwhelmingly with one simple fact. The Torah has deep

458
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Speaker 2: contemned for the Canadius. It considers them.

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Speaker 3: To be the lowest of the law, with their with

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Speaker 3: their child's sacrifice, with their horrible rituals, with their sacred

461
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Speaker 3: prostitution and so on. It considers them the lowest of

462
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Speaker 3: the low. And if you look in Leviticus eighteen three,

463
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Speaker 3: you will see that the Jews are ordered. You may

464
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Speaker 3: not act the way that Egyptians, and you may not

465
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Speaker 3: act in the way the Canaanitites act.

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Speaker 2: All the nations are not mentioned.

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Speaker 3: Doesn't say, no'mact like the Philistines, go act like the

468
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Speaker 3: Gilgamines of the Babylonians.

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Speaker 2: It says, don't act life.

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Speaker 3: The Egyptians who enslave you, so that'll really get home,

471
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Speaker 3: or the Canaanites.

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Speaker 2: They are a miserable group.

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Speaker 3: And that is the reason that I am convinced that

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Speaker 3: Abraham says this, because it doesn't say he ends up Isaac.

475
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Speaker 2: This is where you can get shripped. Isaac does end.

476
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Speaker 3: Up marrying the relevant, but that is not what Abraham

477
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Speaker 3: had asked his servant to do. Remember that you can

478
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Speaker 3: get stripped up, tripped up by the tradition on this. Yes,

479
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Speaker 3: it is true Isaac ends up marrying Abraham's brothers grandchild, granddam,

480
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Speaker 3: but that is not whom a servant was told to

481
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Speaker 3: have married Isaac. He was called, simply go back to

482
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Speaker 3: my home land, find somebody, get out of Canan, go

483
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Speaker 3: back there, have and then take her back to hear.

484
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Speaker 2: That's what you must do, is you will see. So

485
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Speaker 2: that's why this is a little involved. Okay. That that

486
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Speaker 2: is the death is the oath that he takes.

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Speaker 3: By the way, remember the way it is, because he

488
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Speaker 3: will repeat the whole.

489
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Speaker 2: Story later the servant and drops his parents. So remember

490
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Speaker 2: if you can, what he is taking an oath to do.

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Speaker 2: Go to the land of my birth, get a life

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Speaker 2: of my son Isaac. By the way, you might notice

493
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Speaker 2: on my just mention, already.

494
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Speaker 3: Isaac doesn't play a single role in the choosing of

495
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Speaker 3: his wife. Even this, and he's already, you know, because

496
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Speaker 3: it's after Sarah's death, he's already in his forties, and

497
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Speaker 3: yet he doesn't do anything about it.

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Speaker 2: Even this is.

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Speaker 3: Done solely by his father, just as he was taken

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Speaker 3: for the sacrifice by his father, no parallel, intendant, he

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Speaker 3: is taken to.

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Speaker 2: The altar by his daughter. I consider marriage much much

503
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Speaker 2: better than sacrificing. I just want to make that clear.

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Speaker 2: For some people, they all requitment.

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Speaker 3: Unfortunately, that's not that's not the parrel of Lion and

506
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Speaker 3: LOI favored market Town police.

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Speaker 2: Don't forget it on the holy plenty of time.

508
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Speaker 3: But I know all was my.

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Speaker 2: Track, thank you.

510
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Speaker 3: Verse five, And the servant said to him, what if

511
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Speaker 3: the woman does not consent to follow me to this land?

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Speaker 2: All right? Did you get it? Remember he has to

513
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Speaker 2: go find a life in the home land, but a

514
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Speaker 2: bigger back to Canaan. Right.

515
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Speaker 3: So the servant has a very good question, what if

516
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Speaker 3: the woman doesn't consent to follow me to his land?

517
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Speaker 3: Shall I then take your son back to the land

518
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Speaker 3: from which he came, in other words, in effect leave

519
00:29:21,720 --> 00:29:22,120
Speaker 3: him there?

520
00:29:22,960 --> 00:29:23,400
Speaker 2: Okay?

521
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Speaker 3: So Noahs, by the way, an interesting thing here, which

522
00:29:29,800 --> 00:29:31,920
Speaker 3: again a lot of readings made me aware of it.

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Speaker 2: He didn't say, what if the woman doesn't consent to

524
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Speaker 2: brry Isaac that much? They didn't have freedom.

525
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Speaker 3: Women in those days, but she could have the freedom

526
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Speaker 3: not to move. For a woman to choose her husband

527
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Speaker 3: is unheard of in most of the world to this

528
00:29:50,080 --> 00:29:53,920
Speaker 3: day in some ways, and certainly in rap history. But

529
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Speaker 3: what she did have a right to say was I

530
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Speaker 3: don't want to leave my family. So she that's the

531
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Speaker 3: question he asks, not why if she said no?

532
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Speaker 2: We why if she doesn't want to move? Okay?

533
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Speaker 3: So Abraham answers him verse six. On no account, I mean,

534
00:30:10,400 --> 00:30:13,760
Speaker 3: this is really the Hebrew is very direct. Must you

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Speaker 3: take my son back there? The Lord heaven who took

536
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Speaker 3: me from my father's house and from my native land,

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Speaker 3: who promised me on oath saying I will give this

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Speaker 3: land to your offspring. He will send his angel before you,

539
00:30:33,200 --> 00:30:36,200
Speaker 3: and you will get a wife for my son from there.

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Speaker 3: And if the woman doesn't consent to follow you, you

541
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Speaker 3: shall then be clear of this oath to me. But

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Speaker 3: do not take my son back there. In other words,

543
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Speaker 3: only don't don't come back for Isaac, and we'll move

544
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Speaker 3: him there. In other words, Canaan has to be where

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Speaker 3: he stays, because Israel is what promise to us. This

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Speaker 3: is where we stay. If you don't get.

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Speaker 2: A life for him. If you don't get a life.

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00:31:00,040 --> 00:31:04,120
Speaker 3: For him, you did what you could do. It didn't work. Fine,

549
00:31:04,280 --> 00:31:05,760
Speaker 3: but Isaac doesn't.

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Speaker 2: Move clear, Okay, that is what he demands. That can.

551
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Speaker 3: By the way, I have not seen commentaries on this,

552
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Speaker 3: but no angels showed up. It's funny that the NEIGHBORHM

553
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Speaker 3: says to the servant, an angel will help you do

554
00:31:22,320 --> 00:31:26,280
Speaker 3: this whole ask, but no angel actually does show up later.

555
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Speaker 3: I've not seen commentary on it, and I find that

556
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Speaker 3: of interest.

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Speaker 2: I guess Abraham was so used to angels showing up

558
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Speaker 2: and helping out of these difficult things.

559
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Speaker 3: I need it.

560
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Speaker 2: That's probably what happens. Listen, where's the worst? Does like?

561
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Speaker 2: And they will have an angel show on, you know

562
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Speaker 2: when you know, when you get into angels. That's the

563
00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:46,840
Speaker 2: problem with expectations and luck, you know. But we'll trouble

564
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Speaker 2: get an angel. But anyway, as I say, no angel

565
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Speaker 2: does show up. Now, okay, we.

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Speaker 3: Continue, all right. Nine, So the servant put his hands

567
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Speaker 3: under the thigh of his master Abraham and swore to

568
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Speaker 3: him as biddeness.

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Speaker 2: Okay, then a servant can then a servant the ten

570
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Speaker 2: of his master's camels. This will come in report in

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Speaker 2: the story ten Camels, and set out thinking with him

572
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Speaker 2: all the bauty of his master.

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Speaker 3: I think that that did more than an angel. If

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Speaker 3: you want to get a light and camels is a

575
00:32:39,640 --> 00:32:44,640
Speaker 3: better idea. That's really comes out here because this wealth

576
00:32:45,160 --> 00:32:49,240
Speaker 3: definitely overwhelms Laban, who has the final say of regard

577
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Speaker 3: for Rebecca later as we.

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Speaker 2: See, I mean, if he took all of Abraham's balty.

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Speaker 3: I mean he gave four hundred schos of silver to

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Speaker 3: the hit bike, like nothing like you know pocket chain.

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00:32:59,280 --> 00:33:02,400
Speaker 3: He was clearly wealth the Abraham, and that helps in

582
00:33:02,520 --> 00:33:03,160
Speaker 3: getting a woman.

583
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Speaker 2: There's just nobody around them.

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00:33:04,960 --> 00:33:07,840
Speaker 3: There's got a whole weekend on relationships, and pointed out

585
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Speaker 3: that this is a fact of life, and it is

586
00:33:10,440 --> 00:33:13,680
Speaker 3: an unfortunate fact, but it is matched by other unfortment

587
00:33:13,760 --> 00:33:16,360
Speaker 3: facts in the other direction, which he will see as well.

588
00:33:16,920 --> 00:33:17,680
Speaker 2: But he goes.

589
00:33:17,800 --> 00:33:20,000
Speaker 3: He wants to make a very impression that if you

590
00:33:20,040 --> 00:33:23,800
Speaker 3: want to get somebody a daughter to bury your son.

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00:33:24,040 --> 00:33:27,320
Speaker 2: It helps the brink and candles and all of your bounty.

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00:33:28,240 --> 00:33:31,520
Speaker 3: So he takes all the valley of mess imagely through

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Speaker 3: Aram Naharayan to the city of Nahor. He made the

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Speaker 3: camels kneel down and buy the well outside the city.

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Speaker 2: This servant is a genius.

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00:33:43,800 --> 00:33:48,960
Speaker 3: This servant is so impressive because remember everything that the

597
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Speaker 3: servant does, he.

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Speaker 2: Came up with. None of this was told all Abraham.

599
00:33:53,920 --> 00:33:56,680
Speaker 2: Pol was what to do, and Abraham didn't even all

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Speaker 2: the works and is it veils come back. Just don't

601
00:33:58,680 --> 00:34:01,440
Speaker 2: take Isaac to back to my own life. Right.

602
00:34:02,200 --> 00:34:04,480
Speaker 3: He doesn't give him a word on how to go

603
00:34:04,680 --> 00:34:07,960
Speaker 3: about getting a wife or Isaac.

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Speaker 2: The servant has to create the whole scenario on his own.

605
00:34:12,040 --> 00:34:15,520
Speaker 2: And it's as you will see. It is brilliant, and

606
00:34:15,800 --> 00:34:19,600
Speaker 2: I found to be one of the most touching in

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Speaker 2: the Bible. On what he does to figure out who

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00:34:23,680 --> 00:34:27,080
Speaker 2: is the right person to be the daughter in law

609
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Speaker 2: of Abraham, to be a.

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Speaker 3: Matriarch of this succession of Abraham and his religion?

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Speaker 2: What does he do?

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00:34:35,239 --> 00:34:38,239
Speaker 3: He made the camels of Versila and kneel down by

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00:34:38,320 --> 00:34:42,360
Speaker 3: the well outside the city at evening.

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Speaker 2: Time, the time when women come out to droll water.

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00:34:47,280 --> 00:34:49,319
Speaker 3: Ay thing is he comes to a city, where is

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Speaker 3: the best place to find.

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00:34:51,800 --> 00:34:55,719
Speaker 2: Single women by the way out the No.

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Speaker 3: That's exactly That's exactly what I said. Where else abody

619
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Speaker 3: gonna find them? When you didn't have single bars in

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00:35:01,480 --> 00:35:03,399
Speaker 3: the os arey got to show up there anyway. It's

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Speaker 3: not the type of person he want for Isaac. He

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00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:08,719
Speaker 3: went to the well where you where you fe the

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Speaker 3: where you fed the animals, where the women come at

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Speaker 3: and where they feed their families come out for droll water.

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Speaker 2: I tell you, if.

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Speaker 3: Somebody would make a film of this, it would be

627
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Speaker 3: so overwhelming.

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00:35:19,920 --> 00:35:22,759
Speaker 2: It's so beautiful because the details are so rich.

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Speaker 3: Twelve And he said, Oh Lord, God of my Master, Abraham,

630
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Speaker 3: grant me good fortune this day, and deal graciously with

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Speaker 3: my master Abraham. Here I stand by the spring, as

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00:35:42,800 --> 00:35:45,879
Speaker 3: the daughters of the townsmen come out to draw water.

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00:35:47,280 --> 00:35:52,200
Speaker 3: Let the maiden to whom I say, please lower your

634
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Speaker 3: jar that I may drink, and who replies drink.

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Speaker 2: And I will also order your cattles.

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Speaker 3: Let her be the one whom you have decreed for

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00:36:03,040 --> 00:36:07,480
Speaker 3: your servant, Isaac. Thereby shall I know that you have

638
00:36:07,600 --> 00:36:09,400
Speaker 3: dealt graciously with my master.

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Speaker 1: This episode of timeless wisdom will continue right after this.

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Speaker 1: Now back to more of Dennis Prager's timeless wisdom.

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Speaker 2: This is his plan.

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00:36:25,640 --> 00:36:29,000
Speaker 3: It's really it is. It's overwhelming in its beauty, and

643
00:36:29,040 --> 00:36:31,959
Speaker 3: it's touching on many First of all, you might find

644
00:36:31,960 --> 00:36:35,920
Speaker 3: it of interest. This is the first individual petitionary prayer

645
00:36:35,960 --> 00:36:40,680
Speaker 3: in the Bible, and I would like to know the following.

646
00:36:41,480 --> 00:36:46,120
Speaker 3: It is the petitionary prayer not of a patriarch, not

647
00:36:46,280 --> 00:36:47,200
Speaker 3: of a matriarch.

648
00:36:48,160 --> 00:36:51,439
Speaker 2: It is not of a Hebrew, and it is not

649
00:36:51,520 --> 00:36:53,000
Speaker 2: even of a person with a name.

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Speaker 3: I find that very moving that the first prayer to

651
00:36:58,120 --> 00:37:03,680
Speaker 3: God in this way of making a request is nothing

652
00:37:03,719 --> 00:37:08,200
Speaker 3: you would have expected. It's an anonymous human being race

653
00:37:08,719 --> 00:37:09,960
Speaker 3: origin unknown.

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Speaker 2: And why does that say anyone can talk to God,

655
00:37:15,040 --> 00:37:19,160
Speaker 2: anyone can ask God to come into his or her life.

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00:37:20,040 --> 00:37:22,520
Speaker 2: I find that very moving. And that's the person to

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Speaker 2: whom attributed the first prayer.

658
00:37:24,560 --> 00:37:27,279
Speaker 3: As such, others talk to God, but this is the

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Speaker 3: first prayer because we have no record of God appearing

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00:37:30,600 --> 00:37:33,640
Speaker 3: to this person. It wasn't like God and this servant

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00:37:33,719 --> 00:37:40,320
Speaker 3: were on biological grounds like with Noah or with Abraham.

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00:37:40,520 --> 00:37:43,520
Speaker 2: Not at all, just a spontaneous prayer.

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Speaker 3: I ask you God for the following. What is very powerful, though,

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Speaker 3: that you might have missed is this and.

665
00:37:52,680 --> 00:37:55,560
Speaker 2: What does it resonate with me? He did not pray

666
00:37:55,600 --> 00:38:00,680
Speaker 2: for himself. The first petitionary prayer is for somebody else.

667
00:38:03,080 --> 00:38:06,160
Speaker 2: I have a sense that those are that, in a

668
00:38:06,280 --> 00:38:10,040
Speaker 2: certain sense, is almost the ideal that you are. You

669
00:38:10,200 --> 00:38:14,359
Speaker 2: ask for God on another's hand. That's why he had asked,

670
00:38:14,480 --> 00:38:16,960
Speaker 2: is Oh, God, let me have the following so I

671
00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:18,279
Speaker 2: can do my job right.

672
00:38:19,080 --> 00:38:21,440
Speaker 3: Can't rewarded, which is a very logical thing for an

673
00:38:21,480 --> 00:38:23,040
Speaker 3: employee to say, Okay.

674
00:38:22,920 --> 00:38:25,080
Speaker 2: They do a great job of being Rachel mebail.

675
00:38:24,880 --> 00:38:28,440
Speaker 3: Me whatever, no, let me fulfill what is needed for

676
00:38:28,600 --> 00:38:33,600
Speaker 3: abramham O God that's his request. Now not only that,

677
00:38:33,800 --> 00:38:36,759
Speaker 3: but it's very interesting. Of course, he requests very specific

678
00:38:36,800 --> 00:38:39,680
Speaker 3: things from God. God and I have to do the

679
00:38:39,760 --> 00:38:43,239
Speaker 3: following test, and I want the I'll know the right

680
00:38:43,560 --> 00:38:47,160
Speaker 3: girl or Isaac on the basis of her fulfilling it

681
00:38:47,200 --> 00:38:50,239
Speaker 3: with the following response. I mean, he was asking for

682
00:38:50,280 --> 00:38:52,200
Speaker 3: a great deal. But on the other handles and us

683
00:38:52,320 --> 00:38:57,680
Speaker 3: or not on being sent by Abraham on the test,

684
00:38:57,840 --> 00:39:00,959
Speaker 3: so he had cloud that some of us in some

685
00:39:01,040 --> 00:39:02,080
Speaker 3: sense may not have had.

686
00:39:02,120 --> 00:39:03,920
Speaker 2: But that of course would invalidate the.

687
00:39:03,840 --> 00:39:07,120
Speaker 3: Idea that anybody could pray aditionarily, which is clearly an

688
00:39:07,160 --> 00:39:10,320
Speaker 3: important idea. Anyway, Why is his thing?

689
00:39:10,680 --> 00:39:13,759
Speaker 2: What is the test? This is critical that we follow this.

690
00:39:14,960 --> 00:39:17,960
Speaker 2: How will he know the right person for Isaac? This

691
00:39:18,080 --> 00:39:20,200
Speaker 2: is the part that Welling in.

692
00:39:20,239 --> 00:39:29,160
Speaker 3: Reading it purely based on fooitness, it's so fuschy. That

693
00:39:29,360 --> 00:39:32,960
Speaker 3: is the one grounds upon which I will know what

694
00:39:33,120 --> 00:39:34,920
Speaker 3: you write for Isaac.

695
00:39:35,400 --> 00:39:37,720
Speaker 2: Is she kind and good?

696
00:39:39,440 --> 00:39:46,640
Speaker 3: None of the other stuff, not her career, not her well,

697
00:39:47,640 --> 00:39:51,319
Speaker 3: not her view need. So that comes in later, as

698
00:39:51,360 --> 00:39:54,359
Speaker 3: we'll see. But that's not Nyana's boy. He says, I'll

699
00:39:54,360 --> 00:39:58,480
Speaker 3: know who's right for Isaac based on the way she responds.

700
00:39:58,239 --> 00:40:01,319
Speaker 2: To my request for water, And why does he.

701
00:40:01,320 --> 00:40:05,400
Speaker 3: Say I want to review review it. It's not only

702
00:40:05,520 --> 00:40:08,120
Speaker 3: enough that she will say, please lower your jar that

703
00:40:08,239 --> 00:40:14,040
Speaker 3: I may drink. Excuse me that she replies drink, yes,

704
00:40:14,120 --> 00:40:18,160
Speaker 3: here is my jar, but that she volunteers and I

705
00:40:18,239 --> 00:40:20,080
Speaker 3: will also water your camels.

706
00:40:20,640 --> 00:40:24,880
Speaker 2: How many camels? Ten camels? Can you imagine going to

707
00:40:24,920 --> 00:40:27,120
Speaker 2: somebody and saying, can I have a drink? Sure? Let

708
00:40:27,200 --> 00:40:31,239
Speaker 2: me do your ten cattle Wallerado. I actually get so

709
00:40:31,360 --> 00:40:34,000
Speaker 2: much research on this. I found out how long it

710
00:40:34,080 --> 00:40:37,799
Speaker 2: takes for a camel to fill up. Okay, I did

711
00:40:38,440 --> 00:40:39,520
Speaker 2: it tens ten minutes.

712
00:40:40,440 --> 00:40:43,040
Speaker 3: That's a long time to drink ten minutes the camel

713
00:40:43,120 --> 00:40:46,880
Speaker 3: drinks to fill up ten camels is one hundred minutes.

714
00:40:47,239 --> 00:40:50,480
Speaker 2: That's one hour and forty minutes of just camel drinking.

715
00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:55,000
Speaker 2: That's a very very big deal to a stranger and talking.

716
00:40:55,480 --> 00:40:56,799
Speaker 2: You have to understand.

717
00:40:57,120 --> 00:40:59,880
Speaker 3: It almost does board on the miraculous. I mean, I

718
00:40:59,920 --> 00:41:03,040
Speaker 3: think I'm a good guy. I could imagine saying okay,

719
00:41:03,239 --> 00:41:05,720
Speaker 3: I'll help your camel too, But if the guy comes

720
00:41:05,760 --> 00:41:06,759
Speaker 3: with an army.

721
00:41:07,120 --> 00:41:09,719
Speaker 2: I'd say, listen, let me show you where the water is.

722
00:41:10,040 --> 00:41:12,600
Speaker 2: I have a wonderful day, right, I mean, I even

723
00:41:13,040 --> 00:41:14,120
Speaker 2: I think I'm a good guy.

724
00:41:14,920 --> 00:41:18,000
Speaker 3: So he is asking you have to remember not just

725
00:41:18,120 --> 00:41:23,960
Speaker 3: for Kiyas, but someone of extraordinary, almost miraculous goodness. To

726
00:41:24,120 --> 00:41:27,760
Speaker 3: have said that to a stranger like that is just extraordinary.

727
00:41:28,760 --> 00:41:30,960
Speaker 3: And by the way, you will recall, so I won't.

728
00:41:30,760 --> 00:41:31,560
Speaker 2: Go over it again.

729
00:41:31,760 --> 00:41:35,759
Speaker 3: How I kept emphasizing how treatment that the stranger is

730
00:41:35,800 --> 00:41:39,800
Speaker 3: the greatest statement of ethics of decency in the world.

731
00:41:40,640 --> 00:41:44,759
Speaker 3: And this is a deeply, deeply even biblical notion that

732
00:41:44,840 --> 00:41:49,120
Speaker 3: you must treat strangers well. You will also find, of course,

733
00:41:49,200 --> 00:41:52,680
Speaker 3: the parallels here and why Moses was chosen by God?

734
00:41:53,680 --> 00:41:55,600
Speaker 2: Why Moses? Why not somebody else?

735
00:41:56,440 --> 00:42:00,240
Speaker 3: How simple kindness is the issue, and we're going to come.

736
00:42:00,120 --> 00:42:03,320
Speaker 2: To that when you see what happens. Anyway, this is

737
00:42:03,400 --> 00:42:05,200
Speaker 2: quite a request he's making of God.

738
00:42:05,239 --> 00:42:08,640
Speaker 3: You must understand that the person should be this remarkable.

739
00:42:10,680 --> 00:42:18,759
Speaker 2: However, I want to make one.

740
00:42:18,440 --> 00:42:30,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, where he has made this request is verse eighteen right, none, No, fourteen, sorry,

741
00:42:30,920 --> 00:42:34,279
Speaker 3: like eighteen almost reduplications. I want to read fourteen the

742
00:42:34,360 --> 00:42:40,920
Speaker 3: Hebrew to make sure. Yeah, it doesn't say all the camels.

743
00:42:41,320 --> 00:42:43,960
Speaker 3: It says the camels in Hebrew. You have that an

744
00:42:43,960 --> 00:42:45,720
Speaker 3: English dude, Yeah, they're camels.

745
00:42:46,160 --> 00:42:49,920
Speaker 5: It doesn't say all the camels, so in a sense,

746
00:42:50,200 --> 00:42:54,359
Speaker 5: she could have passed the test not doing all ten camels. Okay, No,

747
00:42:54,400 --> 00:42:56,960
Speaker 5: I think that is important because, as I said, the

748
00:42:57,080 --> 00:43:00,160
Speaker 5: nature of the request is almost superhuman that.

749
00:43:00,200 --> 00:43:04,680
Speaker 3: Somebody would volunteer that after being just asked for a drink. Okay,

750
00:43:05,040 --> 00:43:11,080
Speaker 3: So we go to verse fifteen. He had scarcely finished

751
00:43:11,120 --> 00:43:20,399
Speaker 3: speaking when Rebecca, who was born to the two al

752
00:43:21,160 --> 00:43:24,759
Speaker 3: the son of Milcop, the wife of Abraham's brother, not

753
00:43:24,880 --> 00:43:31,120
Speaker 3: far In other words, cases that confuses you, Rebecca is

754
00:43:31,200 --> 00:43:38,239
Speaker 3: the daughter of Abraham's nephew, or if you will, abraham

755
00:43:38,440 --> 00:43:40,279
Speaker 3: brother's granddaughter.

756
00:43:41,480 --> 00:43:43,840
Speaker 2: Great niece. Yeah, that will never would have helped me.

757
00:43:44,800 --> 00:43:46,640
Speaker 2: I mean, I thank you. I don't know what a

758
00:43:46,680 --> 00:43:47,400
Speaker 2: great niece.

759
00:43:47,239 --> 00:43:51,120
Speaker 3: Is, and that it's through confusing his brother's granddaughter struck me.

760
00:43:51,160 --> 00:43:52,680
Speaker 3: He's the easiest way to figuring out I am so

761
00:43:52,800 --> 00:43:55,080
Speaker 3: made a family connections deal that I actually drew out

762
00:43:55,080 --> 00:43:56,800
Speaker 3: a chart for myself with all these names.

763
00:43:57,000 --> 00:43:58,760
Speaker 2: I couldn't figure it out through the text.

764
00:43:59,239 --> 00:44:01,640
Speaker 3: So whichever one is easier for you, because it is

765
00:44:01,719 --> 00:44:05,040
Speaker 3: obviously important, Either you would hold it as the daughter

766
00:44:05,120 --> 00:44:06,240
Speaker 3: of Abraham's nephew.

767
00:44:07,880 --> 00:44:10,040
Speaker 2: So think of your nephew, and then think of your

768
00:44:10,080 --> 00:44:12,680
Speaker 2: nephew having a daughter. That would be it your.

769
00:44:12,560 --> 00:44:17,280
Speaker 3: Abraham or your brother's granddaughter, if that's easy.

770
00:44:17,440 --> 00:44:19,239
Speaker 2: Anyway, that's who she is, it tells you here.

771
00:44:19,760 --> 00:44:22,440
Speaker 3: Of course, he doesn't know that.

772
00:44:22,440 --> 00:44:24,879
Speaker 2: That's very important. The servant doesn't know that at all.

773
00:44:25,000 --> 00:44:29,000
Speaker 2: He just sees women who are at the wealth. She

774
00:44:29,120 --> 00:44:31,200
Speaker 2: came out with her job on her shoulder.

775
00:44:35,520 --> 00:44:40,880
Speaker 3: The mazing was very The girl was very beautiful, a virgin.

776
00:44:40,560 --> 00:44:41,839
Speaker 2: Whom no man had known.

777
00:44:42,360 --> 00:44:44,360
Speaker 3: By the way, it's very interesting you would think that

778
00:44:44,440 --> 00:44:48,680
Speaker 3: that's redundant. That's exactly what virgins are, women who no

779
00:44:48,800 --> 00:44:52,840
Speaker 3: man has known. And I figured out the reason, and

780
00:44:53,080 --> 00:44:56,920
Speaker 3: this was actually a revelation to me. The live Hebrew

781
00:44:57,200 --> 00:45:01,719
Speaker 3: is always translated as virtuine, but it doesn't always mean

782
00:45:01,800 --> 00:45:05,600
Speaker 3: technically virgin. It could simply mean woman of marriageable agent

783
00:45:06,280 --> 00:45:10,000
Speaker 3: who is not technically a virgin. That's the reason the

784
00:45:10,040 --> 00:45:11,120
Speaker 3: words in Hebrew are read.

785
00:45:11,280 --> 00:45:12,000
Speaker 2: I didn't know that.

786
00:45:12,719 --> 00:45:15,120
Speaker 3: By the way, in this regard, Christians here will find

787
00:45:15,120 --> 00:45:18,680
Speaker 3: this particular interest because so often Isaiah with a virgin

788
00:45:18,719 --> 00:45:21,320
Speaker 3: shel And see who decided with regard to the birth

789
00:45:21,360 --> 00:45:24,640
Speaker 3: of Jesus, the word there is not even bit du La.

790
00:45:24,960 --> 00:45:28,520
Speaker 3: It's Almah, which is even less a virgin. Then, and

791
00:45:28,719 --> 00:45:31,920
Speaker 3: my point is God forbid not to undermine any faith.

792
00:45:32,239 --> 00:45:34,760
Speaker 2: It's only to be honest to the text. It isn't

793
00:45:34,800 --> 00:45:35,759
Speaker 2: even bitdu.

794
00:45:35,560 --> 00:45:38,600
Speaker 3: Lah, which is closer to virgin, than Almah, which is.

795
00:45:38,719 --> 00:45:39,479
Speaker 2: Just young woman.

796
00:45:40,239 --> 00:45:42,960
Speaker 3: So it's very important to know what words we're using here,

797
00:45:43,000 --> 00:45:45,040
Speaker 3: and that is why it says a virgin whom no

798
00:45:45,160 --> 00:45:48,640
Speaker 3: man had known, she went down to the spring, filled

799
00:45:48,680 --> 00:45:54,360
Speaker 3: her jar, and came up. Now, it is important here

800
00:45:54,600 --> 00:45:58,680
Speaker 3: it says she was beautiful, and it's important that it

801
00:45:58,760 --> 00:46:00,280
Speaker 3: says it for a number of reasons.

802
00:46:00,280 --> 00:46:01,160
Speaker 2: I am convinced.

803
00:46:02,200 --> 00:46:05,400
Speaker 3: One of the reasons is, after all, he has his choice,

804
00:46:05,440 --> 00:46:06,239
Speaker 3: the serpent.

805
00:46:06,000 --> 00:46:09,040
Speaker 2: Of whom to choose, and he didn't know that she

806
00:46:09,239 --> 00:46:12,879
Speaker 2: was decent any more than any of the other women there.

807
00:46:12,960 --> 00:46:16,280
Speaker 3: He obviously picked a beautiful or the most beautiful girl

808
00:46:16,600 --> 00:46:19,840
Speaker 3: who was at the weather. Right, And that's just something

809
00:46:20,120 --> 00:46:22,799
Speaker 3: that the text is telling you, because well, why not

810
00:46:22,880 --> 00:46:24,040
Speaker 3: start with the most beautiful?

811
00:46:24,360 --> 00:46:27,080
Speaker 2: We can always go down from there. But the but

812
00:46:27,320 --> 00:46:29,839
Speaker 2: there was another, right, there was another element I think

813
00:46:29,880 --> 00:46:30,160
Speaker 2: in this.

814
00:46:31,680 --> 00:46:35,880
Speaker 3: I think it's the text is saying to you she

815
00:46:36,120 --> 00:46:37,680
Speaker 3: was very beautiful.

816
00:46:37,960 --> 00:46:41,240
Speaker 2: And yet despite that, look at how she acted.

817
00:46:42,680 --> 00:46:45,400
Speaker 3: I think that that, frankly, is as much part of

818
00:46:45,480 --> 00:46:46,280
Speaker 3: lot as being.

819
00:46:46,120 --> 00:46:49,759
Speaker 2: Said about Rebecca. It makes clear why he chose her.

820
00:46:49,840 --> 00:46:52,600
Speaker 3: But I think can answer to her greatness, because it

821
00:46:52,680 --> 00:46:55,640
Speaker 3: is very easy for a particularly beautiful woman or particularly

822
00:46:55,719 --> 00:46:59,000
Speaker 3: handsome man to be particularly arrogant, to.

823
00:46:59,040 --> 00:47:01,440
Speaker 2: Rely solely on that in life to get ahead. And

824
00:47:01,760 --> 00:47:03,960
Speaker 2: while white father being kind, who needs it.

825
00:47:03,960 --> 00:47:08,279
Speaker 3: I'll get all the attention. Okay, so this is the

826
00:47:08,320 --> 00:47:13,240
Speaker 3: woman he's doing the test. That's all we know right now. Okay,

827
00:47:13,520 --> 00:47:16,239
Speaker 3: let's continue. The servant ran to her and said, please

828
00:47:16,320 --> 00:47:20,240
Speaker 3: let me sip a little water from your jar, just as.

829
00:47:20,120 --> 00:47:23,239
Speaker 2: He said in his prayer that God would do.

830
00:47:23,680 --> 00:47:26,000
Speaker 3: He says to her, if you have never read this

831
00:47:26,080 --> 00:47:28,600
Speaker 3: story before, aren't you at your seat's edge?

832
00:47:28,880 --> 00:47:31,160
Speaker 2: I mean, isn't it, Facett? What's gonna happen? Why does

833
00:47:31,239 --> 00:47:38,240
Speaker 2: she do? This? Beautiful woman? And eighteen? Drink, my lord?

834
00:47:38,560 --> 00:47:44,360
Speaker 3: She said, And she quickly lowered her jar upon her hand.

835
00:47:44,080 --> 00:47:50,960
Speaker 2: And let him drink so far apart on his past. Correct. Okay,

836
00:47:51,000 --> 00:47:54,520
Speaker 2: and I will show you how the text goes.

837
00:47:56,920 --> 00:48:00,799
Speaker 3: There's a word in this sentence which albody tells you

838
00:48:00,960 --> 00:48:02,440
Speaker 3: she's going to pass this test.

839
00:48:02,640 --> 00:48:11,360
Speaker 2: What's the word nope?

840
00:48:11,960 --> 00:48:15,720
Speaker 3: Nope, nope?

841
00:48:16,719 --> 00:48:22,680
Speaker 2: Are not many words like guys? Quickly quickly? That tells

842
00:48:22,760 --> 00:48:24,320
Speaker 2: you what was the hint?

843
00:48:24,600 --> 00:48:28,440
Speaker 3: She not only did what he requested, she quickly did it.

844
00:48:28,800 --> 00:48:32,000
Speaker 2: And those adverbs are gonna show up like crazy now

845
00:48:32,280 --> 00:48:32,959
Speaker 2: to tell you.

846
00:48:32,920 --> 00:48:36,280
Speaker 3: What, Michael, the person is Rebecca is. She didn't merely

847
00:48:36,360 --> 00:48:38,960
Speaker 3: give him to drink. She quickly gave him to drink.

848
00:48:39,440 --> 00:48:41,520
Speaker 3: Now you know she's gonna pass the test.

849
00:48:41,880 --> 00:48:44,040
Speaker 2: That's the giveaway. This is the kind of person you

850
00:48:44,160 --> 00:48:47,040
Speaker 2: give by the way, I get the chills. Why he says,

851
00:48:47,080 --> 00:48:49,600
Speaker 2: where do you see such a thing? Where character is

852
00:48:49,680 --> 00:48:52,879
Speaker 2: everything in choosing a spouse and to show you how

853
00:48:52,920 --> 00:48:54,719
Speaker 2: it's done. And I will have a lot to say

854
00:48:54,719 --> 00:48:58,120
Speaker 2: about that, because this is what I always talking about.

855
00:48:58,280 --> 00:49:01,200
Speaker 2: My singles don't think about. When they often while to

856
00:49:01,320 --> 00:49:03,360
Speaker 2: meet somebody, they think about why do they like it?

857
00:49:03,480 --> 00:49:06,279
Speaker 2: Allian food? And what kind of movies they like it.

858
00:49:06,520 --> 00:49:09,319
Speaker 2: Character never shows up and it's the only thing here.

859
00:49:09,320 --> 00:49:11,399
Speaker 2: Can you imagine if the guy drink, I really hope

860
00:49:11,440 --> 00:49:12,319
Speaker 2: she likes message that.

861
00:49:12,360 --> 00:49:24,000
Speaker 4: A need boot, So she says, drink my order.

862
00:49:24,120 --> 00:49:26,759
Speaker 2: She quickly lowered her genre upon her hand and let

863
00:49:26,800 --> 00:49:27,760
Speaker 2: him drink. Quickly.

864
00:49:29,000 --> 00:49:32,520
Speaker 3: When she had let him drink his fill, she said,

865
00:49:33,520 --> 00:49:38,640
Speaker 3: I will also draw for your camels until they finished drinking,

866
00:49:40,520 --> 00:49:44,000
Speaker 3: and adds again, I won't nearly start it. I will

867
00:49:44,040 --> 00:49:47,640
Speaker 3: stay till the end. Listen to this woman. I will

868
00:49:47,680 --> 00:49:50,360
Speaker 3: stay in the end for watching have end, for stumping

869
00:49:50,400 --> 00:49:54,440
Speaker 3: a cowl, drink all of this water. It's unbelievable what

870
00:49:54,560 --> 00:49:57,880
Speaker 3: she does, ten of them.

871
00:49:58,040 --> 00:50:01,880
Speaker 2: What's the first word in the next level? Quickly you

872
00:50:01,960 --> 00:50:04,960
Speaker 2: see what I mean? Affects is telling you what kind

873
00:50:04,960 --> 00:50:09,280
Speaker 2: of person this is. It's like almost unreal. Quickly emptying

874
00:50:09,320 --> 00:50:12,320
Speaker 2: her genre into the truck, she ran back to the

875
00:50:12,400 --> 00:50:16,000
Speaker 2: well to draw. She ran back to the well. She

876
00:50:16,160 --> 00:50:17,680
Speaker 2: didn't merely go back.

877
00:50:18,120 --> 00:50:22,319
Speaker 3: She's in Washington, do a stranger of favor, and she

878
00:50:22,600 --> 00:50:25,239
Speaker 3: drew for how many camels?

879
00:50:25,840 --> 00:50:29,120
Speaker 2: All Disney apples? Which you think? The effect is pretty

880
00:50:29,120 --> 00:50:31,040
Speaker 2: clear on what kind of what you did? You ask?

881
00:50:31,120 --> 00:50:35,319
Speaker 3: That guy must be standing there, absolutely awe, that's right,

882
00:50:35,440 --> 00:50:36,439
Speaker 3: an absolute lawe.

883
00:50:36,760 --> 00:50:40,239
Speaker 2: This is a giant. He's probably also thinking, God, if

884
00:50:40,320 --> 00:50:45,840
Speaker 2: I think want you, why I think for me? Everybody didn't.

885
00:50:46,880 --> 00:50:49,719
Speaker 3: And that is exactly what happens in the next verse

886
00:50:50,040 --> 00:50:52,799
Speaker 3: The man meanwhile stude gays me had her.

887
00:50:53,200 --> 00:50:57,040
Speaker 2: He was awestruck silently.

888
00:50:56,880 --> 00:51:00,920
Speaker 3: The Hebrew is incredible. There is I mean, it's new.

889
00:51:01,600 --> 00:51:05,080
Speaker 3: He was at its death and new. He is totally

890
00:51:05,600 --> 00:51:10,799
Speaker 3: speechless because he doesn't want to say anything here, but

891
00:51:11,040 --> 00:51:14,719
Speaker 3: wondering whether the law had made his errand successful or not.

892
00:51:15,239 --> 00:51:18,439
Speaker 3: He really watched the herder say these things, but now

893
00:51:18,520 --> 00:51:19,560
Speaker 3: he was going to watch.

894
00:51:19,360 --> 00:51:20,239
Speaker 2: That she really did it.

895
00:51:21,719 --> 00:51:24,880
Speaker 3: At this point we have a suspicion, of course, that's

896
00:51:24,960 --> 00:51:34,279
Speaker 3: exactly what will happen. Three times between verses nineteen and

897
00:51:34,360 --> 00:51:38,480
Speaker 3: twenty two, three times it notes that she.

898
00:51:38,600 --> 00:51:42,200
Speaker 2: Let them drink until they were all filled. Isn't that something?

899
00:51:42,640 --> 00:51:43,600
Speaker 2: And sure enough.

900
00:51:43,440 --> 00:51:47,240
Speaker 3: Again in verse twenty two, when the camels had finished drinking,

901
00:51:48,200 --> 00:51:49,200
Speaker 3: the man took.

902
00:51:49,040 --> 00:51:53,920
Speaker 2: A gold nosering weighing a half shekelt and two gold

903
00:51:54,000 --> 00:51:58,920
Speaker 2: bands for her arms ten khols in waiting. Now, a

904
00:51:58,920 --> 00:52:00,640
Speaker 2: few things for a moment.

905
00:52:01,560 --> 00:52:05,319
Speaker 3: One of the things that all the commentators know is

906
00:52:05,360 --> 00:52:09,280
Speaker 3: that her tenderness to the animals is also a big factor,

907
00:52:09,719 --> 00:52:13,759
Speaker 3: as you may recall with Moses as well later and.

908
00:52:13,760 --> 00:52:17,879
Speaker 2: The heaven Bible treatment of animals decently is an actually

909
00:52:18,040 --> 00:52:20,720
Speaker 2: very important thing. And remember is one of the seven

910
00:52:21,080 --> 00:52:23,640
Speaker 2: laws of the whole world.

911
00:52:23,719 --> 00:52:27,520
Speaker 3: That Judaism holds the whole world is boundary, and that

912
00:52:27,520 --> 00:52:29,400
Speaker 3: one is that you can't cut the limb off a

913
00:52:29,400 --> 00:52:33,040
Speaker 3: living animal, which is why people did prior to refrigeration

914
00:52:33,160 --> 00:52:34,400
Speaker 3: to keep animals fresh.

915
00:52:34,680 --> 00:52:37,200
Speaker 2: Oh, I'll take a chicken. I'll take a chicken leg

916
00:52:37,320 --> 00:52:37,880
Speaker 2: And they pulled a.

917
00:52:37,920 --> 00:52:41,440
Speaker 3: Leg off, And this was one of the seven things

918
00:52:41,480 --> 00:52:44,880
Speaker 3: the world is commanded not to do. That tenderness to

919
00:52:45,040 --> 00:52:45,960
Speaker 3: animals is a.

920
00:52:46,080 --> 00:52:47,280
Speaker 2: Very important factor.

921
00:52:47,360 --> 00:52:54,200
Speaker 3: It certainly a large basis of les of Kusher as well. Anyway,

922
00:52:56,000 --> 00:53:00,080
Speaker 3: let me just see, Oh I missed one little point here.

923
00:53:00,120 --> 00:53:04,120
Speaker 3: There were so many points in this thing. In verse seventeen,

924
00:53:05,480 --> 00:53:11,040
Speaker 3: he said, please let me sit a little warmer, He said,

925
00:53:11,080 --> 00:53:11,800
Speaker 3: a little warmer.

926
00:53:11,880 --> 00:53:16,279
Speaker 2: He purposely understated his request to make the test that

927
00:53:16,440 --> 00:53:19,680
Speaker 2: more difficult. She could have easily said gears over the

928
00:53:19,719 --> 00:53:22,880
Speaker 2: water and felt that she was doing fine. Okay, I

929
00:53:22,920 --> 00:53:25,600
Speaker 2: just wanted to remark on that.

930
00:53:27,719 --> 00:53:30,600
Speaker 3: So all the quickly is, all the running to do things,

931
00:53:30,719 --> 00:53:33,200
Speaker 3: all the filling up of all the camels, which took

932
00:53:33,239 --> 00:53:37,080
Speaker 3: one hour and forty minutes without any time between camels

933
00:53:37,520 --> 00:53:42,640
Speaker 3: between camels, and her concern for animals is just a

934
00:53:42,760 --> 00:53:43,600
Speaker 3: number of questions.

935
00:53:50,520 --> 00:53:51,960
Speaker 2: That's right, that's very possible.

936
00:53:52,160 --> 00:53:58,480
Speaker 3: She wasn't that impressive, so what I know about camel feeding.

937
00:53:59,480 --> 00:54:01,600
Speaker 3: But I would think though, that she'd keep coming back

938
00:54:01,640 --> 00:54:02,759
Speaker 3: and forth pouring.

939
00:54:02,560 --> 00:54:04,759
Speaker 2: And it so probably puts somewhere between ten minutes and

940
00:54:04,800 --> 00:54:07,879
Speaker 2: an hour and forty minutes. Fair enough, but it's still

941
00:54:08,280 --> 00:54:09,959
Speaker 2: but it's right, But it's still a lot of water.

942
00:54:10,280 --> 00:54:12,440
Speaker 2: All right. That'd be maybe not as much time, but

943
00:54:12,520 --> 00:54:13,440
Speaker 2: a lot of water.

944
00:54:15,719 --> 00:54:19,360
Speaker 3: While we're her parents thinking during that time, back his

945
00:54:19,440 --> 00:54:30,560
Speaker 3: holly helping strangers again. Okay, twenty, let's see hold on, yeah, right,

946
00:54:31,400 --> 00:54:32,880
Speaker 3: my notes. I just want to make sure if she

947
00:54:32,960 --> 00:54:36,080
Speaker 3: runs back quickly and he's all his panels. Oh, let

948
00:54:36,160 --> 00:54:37,120
Speaker 3: me read to you about a.

949
00:54:37,160 --> 00:54:39,440
Speaker 2: Russian rabbi in the nineteenth century.

950
00:54:40,120 --> 00:54:49,880
Speaker 3: The malbem said about her here, okay, if he he

951
00:54:50,080 --> 00:54:54,279
Speaker 3: points out her her kindness and greatness this way, the

952
00:54:54,400 --> 00:54:57,920
Speaker 3: ordinary reaction of the girl would be to the to

953
00:54:58,000 --> 00:55:00,960
Speaker 3: the servant who was there. You're standing by the well,

954
00:55:01,280 --> 00:55:05,040
Speaker 3: help yourself to the water. Number two, they would money

955
00:55:05,080 --> 00:55:07,680
Speaker 3: of girls going out to fetch water. She could say,

956
00:55:07,920 --> 00:55:11,200
Speaker 3: why pick on me when I've already replaced the job

957
00:55:11,280 --> 00:55:14,440
Speaker 3: on my shoulder? They've got another girl who's still holding

958
00:55:14,480 --> 00:55:17,160
Speaker 3: the water on her head in her hand.

959
00:55:17,200 --> 00:55:19,799
Speaker 2: Excused me they could look some of the sites I

960
00:55:19,800 --> 00:55:20,840
Speaker 2: saw in the middle eighty.

961
00:55:20,680 --> 00:55:23,880
Speaker 3: Third, I shall ask her to filter the jug herself

962
00:55:24,200 --> 00:55:27,640
Speaker 3: to enable me to drink. This means a special effort

963
00:55:27,680 --> 00:55:30,400
Speaker 3: for her to let down the dreadful water jug in

964
00:55:30,480 --> 00:55:31,640
Speaker 3: order to give me a drink.

965
00:55:32,200 --> 00:55:34,000
Speaker 2: She would be justified in being.

966
00:55:33,840 --> 00:55:37,120
Speaker 3: Annoyed and saying, filter the jar yourself from my shoulder

967
00:55:37,200 --> 00:55:39,840
Speaker 3: and drink, But don't will bother me to do it myself?

968
00:55:40,160 --> 00:55:42,719
Speaker 2: It upwards out he's putting out even more goodness is

969
00:55:42,800 --> 00:55:44,399
Speaker 2: here than I had noted him.

970
00:55:44,480 --> 00:55:47,759
Speaker 3: For her offer to give my camels a drink, too,

971
00:55:47,960 --> 00:55:51,919
Speaker 3: would indicate their thoughtfulness and understanding, showing that she had

972
00:55:51,920 --> 00:55:56,200
Speaker 3: said to herself, this man is obviously handicapped and cannot

973
00:55:56,280 --> 00:55:59,640
Speaker 3: draw the water himself from the well and lowered the jug.

974
00:56:00,160 --> 00:56:03,319
Speaker 3: If he can't give himself a drink, then he most

975
00:56:03,320 --> 00:56:05,719
Speaker 3: certainly isn't up for water, and the camels too.

976
00:56:06,680 --> 00:56:07,560
Speaker 2: Isn't that interesting?

977
00:56:07,719 --> 00:56:11,799
Speaker 3: This would indicate her finest to animals, not forgetting the thirst.

978
00:56:11,520 --> 00:56:12,280
Speaker 2: Of the camels.

979
00:56:12,680 --> 00:56:16,399
Speaker 3: So while this rabbi nineteen century Russia was saying it

980
00:56:16,440 --> 00:56:19,160
Speaker 3: is she really thought, if this guy can't even for

981
00:56:19,400 --> 00:56:23,359
Speaker 3: his own war, he's obviously not physically capable of doing this.

982
00:56:23,520 --> 00:56:25,280
Speaker 2: Now I feel sorry for his candles.

983
00:56:26,480 --> 00:56:28,680
Speaker 3: I mean, now, how many people give the benefit of

984
00:56:28,719 --> 00:56:30,359
Speaker 3: the doubt from a stranger like that.

985
00:56:30,280 --> 00:56:34,440
Speaker 2: And wouldn't just say lazy? Right, It's a very interesting

986
00:56:34,560 --> 00:56:38,120
Speaker 2: twist on this that this nineteenth century Russian rabbi.

987
00:56:37,920 --> 00:56:57,360
Speaker 6: Notes, Yeah, so you think.

988
00:56:57,200 --> 00:57:09,280
Speaker 3: That she had ulcurier motives because she liked the guy? Yeah, well,

989
00:57:09,920 --> 00:57:12,480
Speaker 3: it's a modern reading that this gentleman has at that

990
00:57:12,600 --> 00:57:15,800
Speaker 3: it was really a good pickup line of the ancient areas.

991
00:57:17,160 --> 00:57:18,360
Speaker 2: Who knows? Who knows?

992
00:57:18,680 --> 00:57:21,360
Speaker 3: I understand what you're saying. I don't fully see it

993
00:57:21,400 --> 00:57:23,000
Speaker 3: that way, but I appreciate it. Let me let me

994
00:57:23,040 --> 00:57:26,080
Speaker 3: just continue here because this is a very long chapter

995
00:57:26,160 --> 00:57:29,680
Speaker 3: and I want to finish it. We are up to

996
00:57:29,760 --> 00:57:34,520
Speaker 3: one person, my friends twenty three? Yeah, okay, Now, when

997
00:57:34,520 --> 00:57:35,680
Speaker 3: the count finished.

998
00:57:35,360 --> 00:57:39,160
Speaker 2: Drinking on only then the man put the gold nose ring,

999
00:57:40,960 --> 00:57:43,160
Speaker 2: which by only gives you an idea of the antiquity

1000
00:57:43,160 --> 00:57:46,520
Speaker 2: of this of this the story is, it's obviously not

1001
00:57:46,600 --> 00:57:47,280
Speaker 2: the sort of thing.

1002
00:57:47,120 --> 00:57:49,880
Speaker 3: You would relate to, though it seems to be making

1003
00:57:49,920 --> 00:57:55,600
Speaker 3: a comeback in some parts of noetrect the Biblical times.

1004
00:57:55,640 --> 00:58:03,000
Speaker 7: On Melrose, okay, the man took the gold nose ring

1005
00:58:03,040 --> 00:58:05,760
Speaker 7: way and half shik el and two gold bands for

1006
00:58:05,880 --> 00:58:06,400
Speaker 7: her arms.

1007
00:58:06,480 --> 00:58:07,920
Speaker 2: Ten shekels, invited, no words.

1008
00:58:07,920 --> 00:58:11,880
Speaker 3: Obviously very very wealthy stuff, very rich slipping things.

1009
00:58:12,680 --> 00:58:15,080
Speaker 2: Pray tell me, he said, who's door arey? This is

1010
00:58:15,200 --> 00:58:20,040
Speaker 2: very important. He did not know who she was. The

1011
00:58:20,240 --> 00:58:24,040
Speaker 2: only reason he picked her was because of her acts

1012
00:58:24,440 --> 00:58:26,560
Speaker 2: he had. And that's you don't I can't tell you

1013
00:58:26,560 --> 00:58:29,200
Speaker 2: I'm poor. That is because some traditions try to hold

1014
00:58:29,240 --> 00:58:31,360
Speaker 2: well deep down. He really knew that this was developed

1015
00:58:31,400 --> 00:58:34,840
Speaker 2: in the Abraham nonsense that expells you. He doesn't know

1016
00:58:34,880 --> 00:58:36,560
Speaker 2: who she is. Still, the acts.

1017
00:58:36,880 --> 00:58:40,000
Speaker 3: It's the acts that make her deserving to be the matriarch,

1018
00:58:40,440 --> 00:58:45,680
Speaker 3: not a bird. Okay, merit by action, not by birth.

1019
00:58:47,720 --> 00:58:49,160
Speaker 3: Whose daughter are he is?

1020
00:58:49,160 --> 00:58:51,720
Speaker 2: Is there room in your father's house for us to

1021
00:58:51,720 --> 00:58:52,360
Speaker 2: spend the night?

1022
00:58:55,720 --> 00:58:58,280
Speaker 3: She replied, I am the daughter of the two al

1023
00:58:58,400 --> 00:58:59,600
Speaker 3: the son of milk.

1024
00:58:59,440 --> 00:59:01,400
Speaker 2: Up, whom she worked enough for.

1025
00:59:02,840 --> 00:59:05,400
Speaker 3: And she went on, there's plenty of straw and feet

1026
00:59:05,400 --> 00:59:08,919
Speaker 3: at home, and also room to spend the night. Again,

1027
00:59:08,960 --> 00:59:12,440
Speaker 3: do you remember the story with Moses Later and Sipora,

1028
00:59:13,160 --> 00:59:18,560
Speaker 3: and where he goes to her home. The man bowed

1029
00:59:18,680 --> 00:59:22,400
Speaker 3: love in homage to the Lord, that's to God, and said,

1030
00:59:22,720 --> 00:59:26,200
Speaker 3: blessed be the Lord, the God of my master Abraham,

1031
00:59:26,880 --> 00:59:29,960
Speaker 3: who has not who had held his steadfast kindness from

1032
00:59:29,960 --> 00:59:33,440
Speaker 3: my master, For I have been guided on my errand

1033
00:59:33,520 --> 00:59:35,120
Speaker 3: by the Lord to the.

1034
00:59:35,120 --> 00:59:37,160
Speaker 2: House of my master's kinsmen.

1035
00:59:38,840 --> 00:59:42,480
Speaker 3: Now he knows that there is that they are related.

1036
00:59:43,000 --> 00:59:45,120
Speaker 3: I'd also like to point out here a lot of

1037
00:59:45,120 --> 00:59:48,960
Speaker 3: people make petitionary prayers to God, and a lot of

1038
00:59:49,000 --> 00:59:50,480
Speaker 3: people get their prayers answered.

1039
00:59:50,560 --> 00:59:52,640
Speaker 2: Let's be honest. There a lot of you who have

1040
00:59:52,680 --> 00:59:54,880
Speaker 2: created somebody, be well the person as well.

1041
00:59:55,520 --> 00:59:57,959
Speaker 3: How often have you then said a prayer thanking God

1042
00:59:58,040 --> 01:00:01,800
Speaker 3: for having happened. I would say that requests are far

1043
01:00:01,840 --> 01:00:05,960
Speaker 3: more common than gratitude. This is very impressive on the

1044
01:00:06,000 --> 01:00:09,440
Speaker 3: part of the servant. He didn't forget to say it

1045
01:00:09,560 --> 01:00:11,960
Speaker 3: thank you, which was just as long.

1046
01:00:12,000 --> 01:00:16,480
Speaker 2: As the request was. I was moved by that. Twenty eight.

1047
01:00:22,000 --> 01:00:25,760
Speaker 3: The maiden ran and told all this to her mother's household.

1048
01:00:27,160 --> 01:00:29,280
Speaker 2: Now that apparently that.

1049
01:00:29,480 --> 01:00:33,840
Speaker 3: Her father is either dead or comatos, he has a

1050
01:00:33,960 --> 01:00:37,840
Speaker 3: very non existent role. That's the mother's household, that's her

1051
01:00:37,840 --> 01:00:42,240
Speaker 3: brother Lavian, who plays their major role, and so on. Now,

1052
01:00:42,320 --> 01:00:46,000
Speaker 3: Rebecca had a brother whose name was Laban or Lavana.

1053
01:00:47,360 --> 01:00:51,160
Speaker 2: Laban ran out to the man at the spring when

1054
01:00:51,200 --> 01:00:53,800
Speaker 2: he saw the nose ring and the vans.

1055
01:00:53,440 --> 01:00:56,800
Speaker 3: On his sister's arms, and when he heard his sister

1056
01:00:56,840 --> 01:00:58,160
Speaker 3: Rebecca say, thus.

1057
01:00:58,080 --> 01:00:59,120
Speaker 2: The man spoke to me.

1058
01:01:00,160 --> 01:01:02,440
Speaker 3: He went up to the man who was still standing

1059
01:01:02,480 --> 01:01:04,040
Speaker 3: beside the camels of the spring.

1060
01:01:04,960 --> 01:01:08,000
Speaker 2: Now you can read this either as this is normal.

1061
01:01:07,840 --> 01:01:11,360
Speaker 3: Human conduct or an implication by the Torah that Laban

1062
01:01:11,480 --> 01:01:16,560
Speaker 3: is very touched by money. Okay, what does Lagan see

1063
01:01:16,880 --> 01:01:18,680
Speaker 3: a nose ring?

1064
01:01:19,040 --> 01:01:21,400
Speaker 2: Okay, it's just you know, it's two nobles. We don't

1065
01:01:21,400 --> 01:01:24,800
Speaker 2: know yet. Nolion know Labor later. That's the assumption. And no,

1066
01:01:25,000 --> 01:01:28,439
Speaker 2: Layman is not the love lightman, that is clear from

1067
01:01:28,480 --> 01:01:29,280
Speaker 2: the text.

1068
01:01:29,440 --> 01:01:31,760
Speaker 3: Anyway, he went up to the man who was still

1069
01:01:31,800 --> 01:01:33,520
Speaker 3: standing beside the camels.

1070
01:01:33,120 --> 01:01:33,880
Speaker 2: In the spring.

1071
01:01:34,840 --> 01:01:38,160
Speaker 3: Come in, oh, blessed of the Lord, He said, why

1072
01:01:38,160 --> 01:01:40,760
Speaker 3: do you remain outside when I have made ready the

1073
01:01:40,800 --> 01:01:43,600
Speaker 3: house in a place for the camels. So the man

1074
01:01:43,760 --> 01:01:47,360
Speaker 3: entered the house and the camels were unloaded. The camels

1075
01:01:47,360 --> 01:01:50,480
Speaker 3: were given straw and feed, and water was brought to

1076
01:01:50,560 --> 01:01:53,280
Speaker 3: Bathe his feet and the feet of the men with him.

1077
01:01:53,960 --> 01:01:54,800
Speaker 2: But when food was.

1078
01:01:54,800 --> 01:01:57,360
Speaker 3: Set before him that as a servant, he said, I

1079
01:01:57,400 --> 01:01:59,200
Speaker 3: will not even feel like old mac tail.

1080
01:01:59,960 --> 01:02:02,280
Speaker 2: This is some worker, huh. I mean he is really

1081
01:02:02,320 --> 01:02:05,600
Speaker 2: extraordinary everybody. First of all, he's the one who thought

1082
01:02:05,720 --> 01:02:08,480
Speaker 2: up this whole thing, not an him. You've just got

1083
01:02:08,480 --> 01:02:09,840
Speaker 2: to remember that that he's.

1084
01:02:09,680 --> 01:02:14,560
Speaker 3: The one who's this character orientation, ethics, decency, goodness orientation.

1085
01:02:15,080 --> 01:02:17,320
Speaker 2: And he's not going to take food until he finishes

1086
01:02:17,360 --> 01:02:17,880
Speaker 2: his desk.

1087
01:02:19,160 --> 01:02:26,600
Speaker 3: I am Abraham's servant, he began verse thirty four. The

1088
01:02:26,720 --> 01:02:30,479
Speaker 3: Lord has greatly blessed my master, and he has become rich.

1089
01:02:30,640 --> 01:02:33,960
Speaker 2: He is very shrewd. He knows what more?

1090
01:02:34,160 --> 01:02:37,320
Speaker 3: Lady, Okay, telling you layman, I want you to know

1091
01:02:37,400 --> 01:02:39,000
Speaker 3: this man is an ethic anopy is.

1092
01:02:40,800 --> 01:02:45,440
Speaker 2: That would not go over. What does he do? He

1093
01:02:45,600 --> 01:02:49,200
Speaker 2: is given him sheep and cattle, not even enough to

1094
01:02:49,240 --> 01:02:51,400
Speaker 2: tell him he's rich. I want you to know how rich.

1095
01:02:51,840 --> 01:02:55,880
Speaker 3: Sheep and cattle, silver and gold, male and female servants,

1096
01:02:56,120 --> 01:02:57,200
Speaker 3: camels and acids.

1097
01:02:57,920 --> 01:03:01,600
Speaker 2: Oh that's who you're representing me talking. That's an effect

1098
01:03:01,680 --> 01:03:03,920
Speaker 2: what one is being said here Now.

1099
01:03:03,760 --> 01:03:06,360
Speaker 3: I'm not this I will plays him in two minutes

1100
01:03:06,480 --> 01:03:09,640
Speaker 3: now and Sarah my master's wife or my master a

1101
01:03:09,800 --> 01:03:13,160
Speaker 3: son in her old age, and he has given him

1102
01:03:13,240 --> 01:03:14,520
Speaker 3: everything he owned.

1103
01:03:14,800 --> 01:03:19,200
Speaker 2: Again, very rich son in law or actually you're his

1104
01:03:19,320 --> 01:03:20,000
Speaker 2: brother in law, O.

1105
01:03:20,040 --> 01:03:25,640
Speaker 3: Lagan that I'm talking about. See he The beauty of

1106
01:03:25,720 --> 01:03:29,840
Speaker 3: this servant is he is smart enough to know what

1107
01:03:29,960 --> 01:03:34,120
Speaker 3: you have to do when he cares about goodness and ethics.

1108
01:03:33,800 --> 01:03:36,560
Speaker 2: When it comes to choosing his spouse for Isaac. But

1109
01:03:36,760 --> 01:03:39,760
Speaker 2: he totally thoughts money. But it comes to getting Urda

1110
01:03:39,800 --> 01:03:43,040
Speaker 2: Mary Isaac to talking to Laban, you get it. This

1111
01:03:43,280 --> 01:03:45,760
Speaker 2: is a smart man. You have to know what to say,

1112
01:03:45,960 --> 01:03:47,520
Speaker 2: who to do what you need.

1113
01:03:47,840 --> 01:03:49,680
Speaker 3: If he is at all, you're very fine. And your

1114
01:03:49,720 --> 01:03:52,240
Speaker 3: daughter has such wonderful epics. The guy had been shown

1115
01:03:52,240 --> 01:03:56,760
Speaker 3: at tend door. That's that's what's obtuous now and will

1116
01:03:56,800 --> 01:03:57,680
Speaker 3: see the proof here.

1117
01:03:58,280 --> 01:04:02,360
Speaker 2: Now, My master made me swear saying you shall not.

1118
01:04:02,280 --> 01:04:05,680
Speaker 3: Get a wife for my son from the daughters of

1119
01:04:05,720 --> 01:04:11,400
Speaker 3: the Cannanites in whose land I dwell? Now what was

1120
01:04:11,440 --> 01:04:15,080
Speaker 3: the actual swear that Abraham made him?

1121
01:04:15,520 --> 01:04:17,840
Speaker 2: You will know this. You will ask the question I

1122
01:04:17,880 --> 01:04:18,840
Speaker 2: asked when I study this.

1123
01:04:18,800 --> 01:04:21,800
Speaker 3: Why does the hat to recount the whole story in

1124
01:04:21,880 --> 01:04:23,800
Speaker 3: the servant's words, why.

1125
01:04:23,600 --> 01:04:24,439
Speaker 2: Don't you just say?

1126
01:04:24,520 --> 01:04:28,440
Speaker 3: And the servant pulled labor in the story, and to

1127
01:04:28,520 --> 01:04:29,920
Speaker 3: show you the brilliance of the.

1128
01:04:29,880 --> 01:04:33,040
Speaker 2: Servant and what to feel for labor. What did he drop?

1129
01:04:33,560 --> 01:04:36,640
Speaker 3: Notice he said, now, my master made me swear, saying right,

1130
01:04:36,800 --> 01:04:39,040
Speaker 3: go back, please to verse three.

1131
01:04:41,000 --> 01:04:48,880
Speaker 2: What was the actual swear? Verse three? I made you swear?

1132
01:04:48,960 --> 01:04:50,680
Speaker 2: This is Abraham booking to the servant.

1133
01:04:50,840 --> 01:04:53,360
Speaker 3: I made you swear by the Lord, the God of

1134
01:04:53,400 --> 01:04:56,480
Speaker 3: Aan and the God of Earth. Now what does it

1135
01:04:56,560 --> 01:05:00,440
Speaker 3: say here in thirty seven when he recounts it, God

1136
01:05:00,720 --> 01:05:02,040
Speaker 3: is invention.

1137
01:05:03,320 --> 01:05:05,880
Speaker 2: And in one of the great lines.

1138
01:05:06,120 --> 01:05:09,720
Speaker 3: Of the Humble labors who as she is one of

1139
01:05:09,720 --> 01:05:11,640
Speaker 3: the great scholars in the world.

1140
01:05:13,680 --> 01:05:17,920
Speaker 2: She has written commentaries on all on all the books, compilations,

1141
01:05:17,920 --> 01:05:21,080
Speaker 2: and they're just wonderful. She has one life.

1142
01:05:21,160 --> 01:05:23,400
Speaker 3: She's not going for a sense of humor. But I

1143
01:05:23,520 --> 01:05:29,720
Speaker 3: found very raw line she writes. The servant doesn't mention

1144
01:05:29,800 --> 01:05:32,560
Speaker 3: the oath and full from verse three about Jehovah.

1145
01:05:32,160 --> 01:05:34,040
Speaker 2: Daughter Heaven and daughter of her quote.

1146
01:05:34,880 --> 01:05:40,000
Speaker 3: This would not be appreciated in layman's circles. I love

1147
01:05:40,160 --> 01:05:43,720
Speaker 3: the under statement from the theme. So you notice how

1148
01:05:43,800 --> 01:05:46,440
Speaker 3: he drops Bundy has to and as money has to.

1149
01:05:46,840 --> 01:05:50,880
Speaker 2: That's why it's recounted. He doesn't mention any guy. I

1150
01:05:50,880 --> 01:05:52,440
Speaker 2: didn't take an old than God's name.

1151
01:05:52,480 --> 01:05:57,200
Speaker 3: I just sworecas Laban's crowd, God, God of heaven, God

1152
01:05:57,240 --> 01:06:00,280
Speaker 3: of hurt. Who is this guy? They would have been suspicious.

1153
01:06:00,560 --> 01:06:02,600
Speaker 3: They can swear everybody has those old.

1154
01:06:02,440 --> 01:06:04,240
Speaker 2: Cultures, but not in the name of.

1155
01:06:04,240 --> 01:06:06,520
Speaker 3: God, because this is not that she writes, going to

1156
01:06:06,560 --> 01:06:10,920
Speaker 3: be appreciated by layman circles. All right, let's come finally.

1157
01:06:10,960 --> 01:06:14,240
Speaker 3: I'm thirty seven. Yeah, you make me swear did.

1158
01:06:13,760 --> 01:06:15,840
Speaker 2: Not get a life from my son from the daughters

1159
01:06:15,880 --> 01:06:18,440
Speaker 2: of the conn ice in whose land I twelve? But

1160
01:06:18,560 --> 01:06:20,920
Speaker 2: you should go to my father's house, my kindred, get

1161
01:06:20,920 --> 01:06:25,760
Speaker 2: away from my son. That's not true. He never said that. Abraham.

1162
01:06:25,840 --> 01:06:28,520
Speaker 2: He made his whole thing up. He just said, come

1163
01:06:28,560 --> 01:06:31,000
Speaker 2: to my whole land. He makes help, go to my

1164
01:06:31,160 --> 01:06:33,720
Speaker 2: family and my kidred. Now he gives all I got

1165
01:06:33,720 --> 01:06:35,560
Speaker 2: to the family. Why I'm throwing him because this is

1166
01:06:35,600 --> 01:06:36,440
Speaker 2: exactly along.

1167
01:06:36,560 --> 01:06:40,160
Speaker 3: So now not only is he unbelievably rich your future

1168
01:06:40,200 --> 01:06:40,600
Speaker 3: brother in.

1169
01:06:40,640 --> 01:06:43,360
Speaker 2: Law, but there are fates involved.

1170
01:06:42,920 --> 01:06:46,040
Speaker 3: Here because he sent me to find a lookalife out

1171
01:06:46,600 --> 01:06:48,680
Speaker 3: and the guy is a real He get sharped.

1172
01:06:49,080 --> 01:06:53,160
Speaker 2: He is truly sharp. And I said to my master,

1173
01:06:53,520 --> 01:06:55,200
Speaker 2: a lot of the women does not follow me.

1174
01:06:55,840 --> 01:06:58,880
Speaker 3: He replied to me, the Lord whose ways I have followed,

1175
01:06:59,160 --> 01:07:02,760
Speaker 3: will send his angel with you and make your errand successful.

1176
01:07:03,720 --> 01:07:05,560
Speaker 3: I still don't know why the angel showed up, but

1177
01:07:05,640 --> 01:07:06,760
Speaker 3: he figured out why not.

1178
01:07:06,960 --> 01:07:10,560
Speaker 2: It shows that angels were involved. So the faith's angels money.

1179
01:07:10,760 --> 01:07:15,840
Speaker 2: This is he's doing everything possible to get Rebecca.

1180
01:07:15,920 --> 01:07:22,240
Speaker 3: So angels where what? Where's one fortune? And will send

1181
01:07:22,240 --> 01:07:24,360
Speaker 3: an angel with you and make your marriage successful. You

1182
01:07:24,360 --> 01:07:26,480
Speaker 3: will get a wife from my son, from my kindred,

1183
01:07:26,680 --> 01:07:27,720
Speaker 3: from my father's house.

1184
01:07:27,720 --> 01:07:30,840
Speaker 2: And keeps repeating it, even though it's pure belonging forty one.

1185
01:07:31,400 --> 01:07:34,200
Speaker 3: Thus, only shall you be free for my adjuration, for

1186
01:07:34,320 --> 01:07:36,760
Speaker 3: my errand if when you choot, when you come from

1187
01:07:36,800 --> 01:07:40,040
Speaker 3: my kindred, they recuse you, only then shall you be

1188
01:07:40,160 --> 01:07:44,840
Speaker 3: freed from my errand for my open I came today.

1189
01:07:44,560 --> 01:07:46,880
Speaker 2: To the spring, and I said, oh, Lord, God of

1190
01:07:47,000 --> 01:07:49,760
Speaker 2: my Master Abraham. Now he throws it any figures. Maybe

1191
01:07:49,760 --> 01:07:52,640
Speaker 2: at this point he could actually invoke God. But who

1192
01:07:52,640 --> 01:07:55,360
Speaker 2: which God, God of my Master Abraham, knock gone at

1193
01:07:55,360 --> 01:07:57,360
Speaker 2: the heavens? And God of the earth in whose name

1194
01:07:57,440 --> 01:08:01,320
Speaker 2: he took the spare. Remember that God of my master Abraham. Okay,

1195
01:08:01,320 --> 01:08:04,720
Speaker 2: Abraham has a god. Okay, if you would indeed grant

1196
01:08:04,800 --> 01:08:07,800
Speaker 2: success to the errand on which I am engaged. As

1197
01:08:07,840 --> 01:08:09,439
Speaker 2: I stand by the spring of water.

1198
01:08:09,760 --> 01:08:12,240
Speaker 3: But the young woman who comes out to draw, and

1199
01:08:12,360 --> 01:08:14,959
Speaker 3: to whom I say, please let me drink a little water,

1200
01:08:15,120 --> 01:08:17,639
Speaker 3: you repeat it, exactly, a little water from your jar,

1201
01:08:18,040 --> 01:08:20,999
Speaker 3: and who answers you may drink, and I will also

1202
01:08:21,120 --> 01:08:24,320
Speaker 3: drive for your camels. Told it exactly right here, led her,

1203
01:08:24,320 --> 01:08:27,400
Speaker 3: who the life, who the Lord has decreed for my

1204
01:08:27,520 --> 01:08:28,280
Speaker 3: master's son.

1205
01:08:28,920 --> 01:08:30,800
Speaker 2: This is pretty intimidating.

1206
01:08:30,200 --> 01:08:32,200
Speaker 3: For later me and I have to admit it, right,

1207
01:08:32,360 --> 01:08:35,360
Speaker 3: I mean, all the things involved here and it works.

1208
01:08:35,439 --> 01:08:39,360
Speaker 3: I mean it's intimidating as sulf work. I had scarcely

1209
01:08:39,400 --> 01:08:42,720
Speaker 3: finished praying in my heart when Rebecca came out with

1210
01:08:42,800 --> 01:08:44,080
Speaker 3: her jar on her shoulder.

1211
01:08:44,160 --> 01:08:45,360
Speaker 2: By the way, how does he know her name?

1212
01:08:45,360 --> 01:08:47,640
Speaker 3: We don't know exactly the assumption as he heard it

1213
01:08:48,280 --> 01:08:50,960
Speaker 3: in conversation there went down to the spring and drewers.

1214
01:08:50,960 --> 01:08:53,559
Speaker 2: Remember he didn't ask her name. He asked where her

1215
01:08:53,600 --> 01:08:57,320
Speaker 2: father was, and I said to her, please give me

1216
01:08:57,360 --> 01:09:00,920
Speaker 2: a drinking. She quickly see that he got it right.

1217
01:09:01,120 --> 01:09:03,960
Speaker 3: She quickly lowered her jar and said drink, and I

1218
01:09:04,000 --> 01:09:05,479
Speaker 3: will also water your cattles.

1219
01:09:06,200 --> 01:09:08,519
Speaker 2: So I drank, and she also ordered the camels. I

1220
01:09:08,520 --> 01:09:10,160
Speaker 2: ain't quired of her. Whose daughter are you?

1221
01:09:10,200 --> 01:09:12,679
Speaker 3: And she said daughter to two elson of the hooker

1222
01:09:12,760 --> 01:09:14,479
Speaker 3: who milk up board hand.

1223
01:09:14,960 --> 01:09:17,200
Speaker 2: And I put the ring on her nose and the

1224
01:09:17,320 --> 01:09:22,600
Speaker 2: bands on her arms is not true? Did you patch that?

1225
01:09:24,160 --> 01:09:30,519
Speaker 2: That's not true? In that worse d now he put

1226
01:09:30,520 --> 01:09:32,920
Speaker 2: it on her nose. That's not the problem. He got

1227
01:09:32,920 --> 01:09:34,840
Speaker 2: the order totally reversed. Purposely.

1228
01:09:35,760 --> 01:09:37,800
Speaker 3: He didn't know who she was when she when he

1229
01:09:37,880 --> 01:09:41,400
Speaker 3: gave her the nose ring, He says, I asked, oh

1230
01:09:42,040 --> 01:09:43,120
Speaker 3: you are in that family.

1231
01:09:43,439 --> 01:09:49,840
Speaker 2: Here's the nosery. He lies through his thea because to

1232
01:09:49,920 --> 01:09:52,439
Speaker 2: tell Laban in his crowd, when I saw what a

1233
01:09:52,479 --> 01:09:54,760
Speaker 2: beautiful human beings she is, that's what I gave for

1234
01:09:54,840 --> 01:09:56,360
Speaker 2: the nose ring. But I can't give me a break.

1235
01:09:56,600 --> 01:09:59,839
Speaker 2: Oh no, he tellsn't it. I knew she's in your family.

1236
01:10:00,160 --> 01:10:03,400
Speaker 2: I gave her the nose ring. They got his leaving

1237
01:10:03,520 --> 01:10:05,720
Speaker 2: that whole story here. That is why I say this

1238
01:10:05,760 --> 01:10:07,719
Speaker 2: thing would make such a great film. He keep looking

1239
01:10:07,760 --> 01:10:11,639
Speaker 2: at the camera dark and then called back to Laban

1240
01:10:11,720 --> 01:10:14,240
Speaker 2: and you know, and Laban is sucking it up and

1241
01:10:14,400 --> 01:10:14,880
Speaker 2: loving it.

1242
01:10:15,160 --> 01:10:18,360
Speaker 3: Oh my family, of course, like he gave a move

1243
01:10:19,120 --> 01:10:19,880
Speaker 3: care who it was.

1244
01:10:19,920 --> 01:10:22,639
Speaker 2: It wasn't supposed to be family. It didn't matter if

1245
01:10:22,640 --> 01:10:27,160
Speaker 2: to Abraham it didn't matter. But deserving him, then I bowed.

1246
01:10:26,880 --> 01:10:29,120
Speaker 3: Him low and homage to the Lord, and bless the Lord,

1247
01:10:29,160 --> 01:10:31,599
Speaker 3: the God of my master Abraham.

1248
01:10:31,280 --> 01:10:33,040
Speaker 2: Who led me on the right way to get the

1249
01:10:33,120 --> 01:10:37,000
Speaker 2: daughter of my master's brother for his selling Ruffian right?

1250
01:10:37,520 --> 01:10:40,360
Speaker 2: Is that a right? Big? Why not? Great? Why I'll

1251
01:10:40,439 --> 01:10:40,640
Speaker 2: use it?

1252
01:10:41,240 --> 01:10:43,600
Speaker 3: And now if you mean to treat my master with

1253
01:10:43,680 --> 01:10:46,920
Speaker 3: true kindness, Eli, and if not, tell me also that

1254
01:10:47,040 --> 01:10:47,920
Speaker 3: I may turn right on it.

1255
01:10:48,040 --> 01:10:52,040
Speaker 2: Okay, it's decision time. He's not even eating yet. He's

1256
01:10:52,120 --> 01:10:54,840
Speaker 2: also small on this issue. He doesn't want him to dally.

1257
01:10:55,120 --> 01:10:56,360
Speaker 2: He doesn't even want to kneel.

1258
01:10:56,800 --> 01:11:01,800
Speaker 3: He wants bombarding him with God, angels, faith, diamonds and

1259
01:11:01,960 --> 01:11:03,519
Speaker 3: camels to get the answer.

1260
01:11:05,120 --> 01:11:08,160
Speaker 2: And sure enough, he was right to demand it.

1261
01:11:08,160 --> 01:11:11,360
Speaker 3: Soon Verse fifty. Then Laban and the two hal answered

1262
01:11:11,600 --> 01:11:14,680
Speaker 3: the duel. The duelf the father shows up like he

1263
01:11:14,760 --> 01:11:17,240
Speaker 3: had an answer to him. I think he's just thrown

1264
01:11:17,280 --> 01:11:20,720
Speaker 3: in there for good measure. The matter was decreed by

1265
01:11:20,760 --> 01:11:23,519
Speaker 3: the Lord. We cannot speak to you better. In other words,

1266
01:11:23,520 --> 01:11:26,439
Speaker 3: we can't tell you whether we have no answer to

1267
01:11:26,479 --> 01:11:29,400
Speaker 3: give you. Here is Rebecca. In other words, it is,

1268
01:11:29,439 --> 01:11:32,760
Speaker 3: it is true. But oh, actually, excuse me. Where is

1269
01:11:32,800 --> 01:11:34,640
Speaker 3: the program that said the ten days I want her

1270
01:11:34,680 --> 01:11:36,439
Speaker 3: to get the diary. Well, they'll come up.

1271
01:11:36,920 --> 01:11:37,680
Speaker 2: I'm sorry.

1272
01:11:38,360 --> 01:11:39,840
Speaker 3: Oh, it comes a little later. So I have this

1273
01:11:39,960 --> 01:11:42,920
Speaker 3: mixed up anyway, he says. He says, Look, it was

1274
01:11:43,000 --> 01:11:43,920
Speaker 3: decreed by the Lord.

1275
01:11:44,080 --> 01:11:47,120
Speaker 2: In other words, the argument's work of the of the

1276
01:11:47,479 --> 01:11:50,960
Speaker 2: of the messenger. Here is Rebecca before you take her

1277
01:11:51,000 --> 01:11:54,000
Speaker 2: and go. Ah, Now, I'll tell you that's why I'm

1278
01:11:54,160 --> 01:11:56,479
Speaker 2: like that. He wants a decision now that they will valley,

1279
01:11:56,680 --> 01:11:57,479
Speaker 2: not on the.

1280
01:11:57,400 --> 01:12:00,880
Speaker 3: Wife part, but on the moving part. Remember he has

1281
01:12:00,960 --> 01:12:04,400
Speaker 3: two major requests here. Wife is one, but that's not

1282
01:12:04,960 --> 01:12:07,000
Speaker 3: that's not the whole thing at all. She has to

1283
01:12:07,040 --> 01:12:10,040
Speaker 3: be able to move and leave her family. So here

1284
01:12:10,120 --> 01:12:12,720
Speaker 3: is Rebecca, before you take her and go and let

1285
01:12:12,760 --> 01:12:14,439
Speaker 3: her be a wife to your master's son.

1286
01:12:14,479 --> 01:12:17,160
Speaker 2: As the Lord is spoken, in other words, I even

1287
01:12:17,200 --> 01:12:18,320
Speaker 2: see the hand of God in here.

1288
01:12:18,360 --> 01:12:20,920
Speaker 3: There's no question, And I mean the happiness be anything

1289
01:12:21,080 --> 01:12:22,000
Speaker 3: but that, Okay.

1290
01:12:22,320 --> 01:12:23,559
Speaker 2: I also I like your money.

1291
01:12:24,040 --> 01:12:27,320
Speaker 3: When abraham servant heard their words, he battleoaded the ground

1292
01:12:27,360 --> 01:12:28,000
Speaker 3: before the war.

1293
01:12:28,479 --> 01:12:31,200
Speaker 2: The servant brought out objects of sumer and gold.

1294
01:12:31,400 --> 01:12:34,160
Speaker 3: Why why if he's already said yes, is he gonna

1295
01:12:34,280 --> 01:12:36,719
Speaker 3: still bring out more money because he has.

1296
01:12:36,600 --> 01:12:40,120
Speaker 2: The big request to make. Now the life part is

1297
01:12:40,160 --> 01:12:44,040
Speaker 2: the easy part. This is the felt part. He brings

1298
01:12:44,080 --> 01:12:46,280
Speaker 2: out more silver and gold than garments, and gave it

1299
01:12:46,400 --> 01:12:48,800
Speaker 2: to Rebecca, and gave presents to my brother and our mother.

1300
01:12:49,400 --> 01:12:53,160
Speaker 2: Guy smart. Then he and the man with him aiden's rake,

1301
01:12:53,240 --> 01:12:54,280
Speaker 2: and then spent the night.

1302
01:12:54,640 --> 01:12:57,559
Speaker 3: When they arose next morning, he said, give me leave

1303
01:12:57,640 --> 01:12:58,559
Speaker 3: to go to my master.

1304
01:12:59,720 --> 01:13:02,599
Speaker 2: But her brother and her mother said, let the maiden

1305
01:13:02,680 --> 01:13:07,200
Speaker 2: remain with us some ten days. See that it's one

1306
01:13:07,240 --> 01:13:09,479
Speaker 2: thing to give it to give her away and get

1307
01:13:09,479 --> 01:13:11,320
Speaker 2: all this money. That's great, and we can get rich

1308
01:13:11,360 --> 01:13:13,080
Speaker 2: because we stay here with all our money.

1309
01:13:13,360 --> 01:13:14,960
Speaker 3: But now he's saying, I want to take her to

1310
01:13:15,120 --> 01:13:18,680
Speaker 3: her master, to my master, I wanted to take her away. No,

1311
01:13:19,160 --> 01:13:22,479
Speaker 3: say ten days, then you may go. Now, what's gonna

1312
01:13:22,479 --> 01:13:25,000
Speaker 3: happen in ten days? Probably dally again, because we all

1313
01:13:25,040 --> 01:13:28,360
Speaker 3: know about dalaying later, as you recall, with working for

1314
01:13:28,800 --> 01:13:31,519
Speaker 3: just work a little time on another seven years. By

1315
01:13:31,560 --> 01:13:33,600
Speaker 3: the way, you'll see how that happens here. Anyway, you

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Speaker 3: said to them, do not delay me. Now that the

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Speaker 3: Lord has made my errand successful, he's invoking God.

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Speaker 2: Now, okay, listen, you you start with me.

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Speaker 3: You're starting with God, which is a great line to

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Speaker 3: have if you can do it successfully.

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Speaker 2: You're not delay me. Now that the Lord has made

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Speaker 2: my errand successful, give me leave that I can go

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Speaker 2: to my master. And then they said, this is very touching.

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Speaker 2: Let us call the girl and ask for her reply.

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Speaker 2: Remember when I sent to you from the very beginning.

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Speaker 3: She doesn't have any say on who she marries, but

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Speaker 3: she does have a say on whether she leaves her family.

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Speaker 3: So I say, okay, let's ask for Rebecca. They called

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Speaker 3: Rebecca and said to her, will you go with this man?

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Speaker 3: And she said, with a brother like you, I leave

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Speaker 3: in a second.

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Speaker 2: That isn't very or not. Many of your texts happen

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Speaker 2: for sure, and she said I will, So they sent it.

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Speaker 2: So they sent off their.

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Speaker 3: Sister, Rebecca and her nurse, along with abraham servant that

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Speaker 3: is mad.

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Speaker 2: And they bought Rebecca and said to her, oh, sister,

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Speaker 2: when you grow in the.

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Speaker 3: Thousands of myriads, may your offspring seas the gates of

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Speaker 3: their boats, the typicult thing you say to your sister

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Speaker 3: once you leaves to Then Rebecca and her maids are

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Speaker 3: rose mounted the camels and followed the man. So the

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Speaker 3: servant took Rebecca and went his way. Why do you

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01:14:50,720 --> 01:14:51,479
Speaker 3: think of that, folks?

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Speaker 2: Then does that guy deserve an ovation? I tell you

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01:14:54,160 --> 01:14:54,599
Speaker 2: he really does.

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Speaker 7: Who did?

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Speaker 2: Pat kid doesn't even have a name, And look at

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01:15:00,040 --> 01:15:03,479
Speaker 2: how terrificated wite harry O. Let's just finish this chapter.

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Speaker 2: Isaac had just come back.

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Speaker 3: From the vicinity of their leftire elite or he was

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01:15:07,720 --> 01:15:10,719
Speaker 3: settled in the region of the degad. He was, so said,

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01:15:11,720 --> 01:15:15,400
Speaker 3: now Isaac shows up, everything's done for him again.

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Speaker 2: It's really I've gonecause I don't wish to luck him

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Speaker 2: in any way. It's a sense of sadness here.

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Speaker 3: You'll see the way the thing ends is particularly true

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01:15:25,200 --> 01:15:25,759
Speaker 3: about Isaac.

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Speaker 2: And Isaac went out walking in the field for an evening,

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Speaker 2: and looking up, he saw Cavell's approaching. Raising her eyes,

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01:15:31,880 --> 01:15:35,800
Speaker 2: Rebecca saw Isaac. She suspected that this is the man.

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01:15:36,280 --> 01:15:38,639
Speaker 3: She alighted from the camel and said to the servant,

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01:15:38,880 --> 01:15:41,439
Speaker 3: who's that man walking in the field for us, and

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01:15:41,520 --> 01:15:44,920
Speaker 3: the servant said, that's my master. So she took her

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01:15:44,960 --> 01:15:46,920
Speaker 3: veil and covered herself from which.

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01:15:46,760 --> 01:15:49,040
Speaker 2: We get the veiling and unveiling to.

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01:15:49,000 --> 01:15:53,679
Speaker 3: This day in Jewish marital ceremonies. And the servant called

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01:15:53,800 --> 01:15:57,639
Speaker 3: Isaac all the things that he had done. Isaac then

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01:15:57,720 --> 01:16:00,960
Speaker 3: brought her into the tent of his mother, Sarah, and

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01:16:01,040 --> 01:16:08,760
Speaker 3: he took Rebecca as his wife. Isaac loved her and

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Speaker 3: thus found comfort after his mother's death. This is very

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Speaker 3: powerful ending. Now it's the tenth of his mother Sarah,

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Speaker 3: and the she is dead, but it also implies that

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01:16:22,280 --> 01:16:24,400
Speaker 3: that's when he went to live with after the binding,

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01:16:24,800 --> 01:16:29,160
Speaker 3: that he went to his mother, which is understandable. This

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01:16:29,320 --> 01:16:31,559
Speaker 3: is that you made my father again is likely another job.

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Speaker 2: He died like it, and so it's good. It's clearly

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01:16:41,280 --> 01:16:44,439
Speaker 2: life to live with Sarah all. What it's also clear

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01:16:44,760 --> 01:16:47,880
Speaker 2: is that his attachment was beyond the norm.

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01:16:49,000 --> 01:16:53,080
Speaker 3: There are profound psychological insights and genesis, and certainly one

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01:16:53,240 --> 01:16:56,200
Speaker 3: is ear this man is deeply attached.

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Speaker 2: To his mother.

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01:16:56,880 --> 01:17:00,000
Speaker 3: It's his mother's tend He put Rebecca for a white,

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01:17:00,080 --> 01:17:02,439
Speaker 3: loved her, and thus found comfort after his mother's death.

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Speaker 2: And I am very unhappy that that's the translation. That's

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Speaker 2: not what he who says the Hebrew has no word.

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01:17:08,360 --> 01:17:13,120
Speaker 2: Then the Hebrew just says and thus found comfort after

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01:17:13,280 --> 01:17:18,400
Speaker 2: his mother. Period and the chapter they end the but.

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01:17:20,120 --> 01:17:28,639
Speaker 3: Hurtz just says after his mother. Oh, and the Hebrew

1389
01:17:28,760 --> 01:17:32,120
Speaker 3: is after his mother, and it has to be after

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01:17:32,280 --> 01:17:39,760
Speaker 3: his mother. The point here is also his loss with

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01:17:39,880 --> 01:17:41,680
Speaker 3: his mother's death is overwhelming.

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01:17:43,360 --> 01:17:45,920
Speaker 2: This woman whom he loves, he loves as a replacement

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01:17:46,000 --> 01:17:50,080
Speaker 2: for his mother. That's the statement that's being made. It's

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01:17:50,240 --> 01:17:52,840
Speaker 2: terrible that they added an English depict. That's not the point.

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01:17:53,560 --> 01:17:56,760
Speaker 2: It's after his mother. He found comfort after his mother.

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01:17:57,160 --> 01:18:00,280
Speaker 2: This is my substitute mother. And that, by the way,

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01:18:00,400 --> 01:18:03,360
Speaker 2: is what happens later. In fact, she mothers him in

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01:18:03,439 --> 01:18:06,960
Speaker 2: the sense that she runs the household. That is what

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01:18:07,200 --> 01:18:10,120
Speaker 2: Isaac's faded life is. And I'm not saying good or bad.

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01:18:10,160 --> 01:18:12,760
Speaker 2: I'm just explaining it. And the tow is clear about that.

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Speaker 2: One final little interesting point in this statement.

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01:18:17,880 --> 01:18:23,320
Speaker 3: You see the view of the tradition rather than madernity

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01:18:23,479 --> 01:18:24,759
Speaker 3: about love and marriage.

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01:18:25,720 --> 01:18:30,000
Speaker 2: We love first and then married. They marry first and

1405
01:18:30,160 --> 01:18:33,559
Speaker 2: then love, And that's the order given here.

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01:18:33,680 --> 01:18:38,880
Speaker 3: If you see it in the sentence, and he couldn't

1407
01:18:38,960 --> 01:18:46,360
Speaker 3: Rebecca as his wife. Isaac loved her, and that is

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01:18:46,640 --> 01:18:49,040
Speaker 3: in that is the best of.

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01:18:49,120 --> 01:18:52,559
Speaker 2: The traditional world. It doesn't work often, obviously, and ours

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01:18:52,600 --> 01:18:56,840
Speaker 2: doesn't work often either, but the best in that world.

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01:18:56,960 --> 01:19:02,559
Speaker 2: As one very traditional Hassitic rabbi was holding, he said.

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01:19:02,400 --> 01:19:05,240
Speaker 3: Denis, I just did I believe that we believe the

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01:19:05,280 --> 01:19:10,080
Speaker 3: opposite of modernity. We believe that you marry and then

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01:19:10,120 --> 01:19:11,639
Speaker 3: you gradually get to love.

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01:19:12,200 --> 01:19:14,240
Speaker 2: And what most people today do is they love and

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01:19:14,320 --> 01:19:17,040
Speaker 2: then gradually that they marry and then gradually fall out

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01:19:17,080 --> 01:19:20,160
Speaker 2: of love. So that is the way we do it.

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01:19:20,840 --> 01:19:23,360
Speaker 2: But that is the way it was done, and it worked.

1419
01:19:23,720 --> 01:19:25,240
Speaker 2: But how he loved her?

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01:19:25,880 --> 01:19:29,080
Speaker 3: Are what those very powerful little words that end this

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01:19:29,520 --> 01:19:35,559
Speaker 3: unbelievable chapters of men and women, of dignity of character

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01:19:35,720 --> 01:19:39,640
Speaker 3: and so on, and this is you know what I

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01:19:39,720 --> 01:19:40,880
Speaker 3: have begun studying it.

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01:19:41,479 --> 01:19:44,200
Speaker 2: The commentators. Modern commentators said, this is one of the

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01:19:44,280 --> 01:19:48,160
Speaker 2: most beautiful chapters in all of literature. And I had

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01:19:48,200 --> 01:19:50,120
Speaker 2: read it. Who hasn't read this?

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01:19:51,320 --> 01:19:54,320
Speaker 3: But they're right when you really look at it, and

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01:19:54,560 --> 01:19:59,280
Speaker 3: the subtle he's involved, it's just it is, it's overwhelming,

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01:19:59,439 --> 01:20:02,759
Speaker 3: and God knows the message on how to choose a spouse.

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01:20:03,720 --> 01:20:06,800
Speaker 3: It's so interesting because many of you may know what

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01:20:06,960 --> 01:20:08,640
Speaker 3: I always say to singles.

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01:20:08,240 --> 01:20:09,400
Speaker 2: And half for so many years.

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01:20:09,479 --> 01:20:11,280
Speaker 3: I say, you know, of course you should.

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01:20:11,080 --> 01:20:14,080
Speaker 2: Fight out the character. And I even say, there's a test.

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01:20:14,200 --> 01:20:16,960
Speaker 3: I have prayed his liftus test on how to check

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01:20:17,040 --> 01:20:18,679
Speaker 3: on a person's character quickly?

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01:20:19,240 --> 01:20:23,080
Speaker 2: What is it? Watch? How they treat a stranger from

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01:20:23,160 --> 01:20:24,479
Speaker 2: whom they don't need anything?

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01:20:25,040 --> 01:20:29,000
Speaker 3: And the example I always get is a later or waitress,

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01:20:30,040 --> 01:20:33,080
Speaker 3: And sure enough, what's his watch?

1441
01:20:33,160 --> 01:20:36,519
Speaker 2: How she treats the stranger from whom she doesn't need anything?

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01:20:37,680 --> 01:20:38,519
Speaker 2: And he was right.

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01:20:39,160 --> 01:20:42,240
Speaker 3: And it's a great lesson in our age of not

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01:20:42,400 --> 01:20:45,000
Speaker 3: taking this stuff seriously and then wondering why you get

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01:20:45,080 --> 01:20:47,600
Speaker 3: hurt by friends or by spouses.

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01:20:47,920 --> 01:20:50,360
Speaker 2: I'll have to take questions next week. I thank you

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01:20:50,560 --> 01:20:51,240
Speaker 2: very very much.

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