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Who Sells a Brother for Shoes? • Shabbos Lesson, Parshas Bo

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Who Sells a Brother for Shoes? • Shabbos Lesson, Parshas Bo

A Shabbos Kodesh lesson on Parshas Bo, delivered at the Kiddusha Rabba by Rabbi Berland shlit"a—about the sale of Yosef, the secret of “shoes,” how the holiness of Eretz Yisrael was overturned into a klipah, and the rectification of da’as in the parshah of Geulah.

Here is the full lesson:

They sold Yosef for a pair of shoes. Who sells a brother for shoes? There’s no such thing in the world. Didn’t they have shoes? Couldn’t they arrange shoes for themselves? Why didn’t they take care of getting shoes? How could Reuven not have had shoes? He was already so grown—he was already twenty-three years old; and Shimon was already twenty-two; and Levi was twenty-one. So what—Reuven, at twenty-three years old, is walking around without shoes?

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