The Story of Reb Avner - Parsha Haazinu - By Rabbi YY Jacobson

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There is an ancient Jewish tradition that every man, every woman, every event, everything that ever was or will be, can be found in the tiny Torah Portion of Haazinu. This claim seems preposterous, but it is true, and documented in the name of one of the greatest of all Medival Sages, Nachmanides. (Rabbi Moses ben Nachman, born in Gerona, Spain, 1194, and died in the Land of Israel, 1270.)" This class will analyze an episode concerning one of Nachmanide’s students who became a terrible apostate upon hearing this teaching. Yet Nachmindes refuted him, and we will also find this students name in Haazinu and see how the words that spell his name also prophesized his end. We will discover the limits of repentance, and answer the question: ‘Can one go just too far?’

[@Francesj399Maloney]

Rabbi Jacobson, Shana Tova. THANK YOU. It would never have occurred to me, to think about accepting pardon and forgivess so deeply as to entail courage!

[@yankeehayward7916]

hello rebbi, thanks for this great shiur! i had i thought afterward and im writing this comment to perhaps hear your thoughts or anyone elses . perhaps we can say that reb avner did indeed do a powerful teshuva and the proof is,the negative aspect of the verse ''i will eradicate their remembrance from mankind' did NOT happen to him because as we see that, most likely his name and story is repeated year after year hundreds of years later , so he was not forgotten and the lessons from this story live on.
Gmar chasima tovah!

[@motog4-75]

😂wow this guy looks & sounds familiar

[@chodeshadar18]

Wow.