Introduction
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Lesson series
Yonah Journey of the Soul
In Aderes Eliyahu, the Vilna Gaon presents a deeper dimension to the Book of Yonah/Jonah. He explains it as an allegory of the story of the human soul and its struggle with and victory over a body and planet inhospitable to its spiritual mission. Adapted from the Gaon’s commentary by Rabbi Moshe Schapiro.
And it came to pass..
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Arise Go To Nineveh ...
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But Jonah Arose...
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Then Hashem...
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There was such a mighty tempest in the sea
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That the Ship Threatened To Be Broken Up...
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The Sailors...
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The Ship's Master Approached Him...
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Come Let Us Cast Lots....
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Tell us, now...
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He Said To Them, I am a Hebrew...
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What is it that you have done...
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What Must We do....
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Lift Me Up and Heave Me Into the Sea...
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Nevertheless, the men rowed hard..
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Then They Called Out To Hashem And Said...
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And They Lifted Yonah...
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Then the Men Feared...
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Them Hashem Designated a Large Fish...
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Yonah Prayed to Hashem...
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He said, I called in my distress...
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You Cast Me Into the Depths...
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Then I Thought I Was Driven...
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Waters encompass me, to the soul...
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While my soul was faint within me...
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Those Who Observe Folly, they Foresake their Kindness
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But as for me, with a voice of gratitude
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Then Hashem Addressed the fish...
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So Yonah rose up and went to Nineveh...
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Yonah Commenced to enter the city...
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And the people of Nineveh believed in Gd
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The Matter Reached the King of Nineveh...
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And he had it promulgated and declared..
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They Are To Cover Themselves with Sackcloth...
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He Who Knows
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And Gd saw their deeds
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And it displeased Yonah greatly...
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He Prayed to Hashem..
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So now Hashem please take my life..
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Yonah left the city..
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Hashem Gd designated a Kikayon
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Then Gd Designated a Worm..
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Haftarah
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