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Women's Pesach Lecture - We Tried to Hold It Together for So Long; G-d Is Cracking Us All Open
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Welcome everybody. Good morning. Thank you for gracing us with your presence. I'm always uh amazed on the crowd that comes right before Pesak. I know this is a quite intense week for so many on many different levels. So it means so much that you come and [snorts] thank you very much for gracing us and special welcome to Bryindy who we missed. A welcome back. Thank you. It's a bigus to have you and whenever you're here in the class, it gives the class so much more uh authenticity and depth and meaning. So, thank you very much and you should be blessed among all of us. Today's class is dedicated by some special friends. Number one, it's dedicated by Harry and Dina Dornbush for the continued recovery of the child kava yael and for a complete and speedy recovery for the child, Elan Ben Rifka and Amen. Also dedicated in the merit of Mikall Raya Bas lea, may Hashem grant her complete healing in body and soul, comfort and strength and many happy years. May she be blessed with renewed strength, light, days filled with true joy ahead, dedicated with love by her family. Amen. Also dedicated by Anne Crane Loey in honor of her husband Rudolph for his dedication to Torah learning which has inspired her and her son to do more. Great. Beautiful. Amen. also dedicated by Kani and Israak Kaplan in honor of the 124th birthday of the labba on the 11th of Nissan Alfissa and Alenu. Thank you so so much for everybody and may you all be blessed especially our brothers and sisters in the holy land and the air force and everybody involved in America and Israel to obliterate the amalikum of our times. Amen. So,
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- 0:01Welcome everybody. Good morning. Thank you for gracing us with your presence. I'm always uh amazed…
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- 12:24very interesting way and that is known as denu. It would have been enough this with…
- 18:36this is what we say in the hagada. We also know that the second half of…
- 24:46it's an incredible experience because you go under the water and suddenly there's like a whole…
- 30:55alive. But what makes it alive? that it's actually not separate even for a moment. The…
- 37:21inches. The holes in the net were 10 inches. So there were no fish smaller than…
- 43:32separate. The eye just wants to channel the source which is Hashem. And that's why avoid…
- 49:40forgive my arrogance and I'm thinking like I agree and then the person says and after…
- 55:49the ray in the other house. Stop shining. Why should I stop shining? We're both manifesting…
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