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To Dream the Impossible Dream

To Count the Impossible Count

49 min

Class Summary:

This class, presented to women in Lech Lecha 5770 (October 2010), explores a strange verse: "And G-d took Abraham outside, and He said, 'Please look heavenward and count the stars, if you are able to count them.' And He said to him, 'So will be your children.'"

What do these words mean? Do they mean that the Jews will be uncountable, just like the stars? Well this interpretation is contradicted by the reality of history. In every generation, the members of the Jewish nation could be counted. Before the Holocaust we were 18 million; today we are around 14 million. Yet there are far more than 14 million stars!

 

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    Rabbi YY Jacobson

    • October 15, 2015
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    • 2 Cheshvan 5776
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    Dedicated by David and Eda Schottenstein in honor of Sholom Yosef Gavriel ben Maya Tifchaaka "Schmendrel Nash."

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