Rachel Imenu: Life Lessons from Our Mother Rachel - Rabbi Paysach Krohn

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[Music] a number of years ago in Cleveland Ohio there was a Russia Shiva his name was rabbi mordechai gifter I had the great schools to know him I am NOT a Talmud a student of that yeshiva but I had many cousins who studied there and I spoke to him many many times and Rabbi gifted once asked a young man a question he said tell me he said when you go to heaven or hell and when you go to the Kotel amara v where do you cry more what an interesting question you ever think about that when you go to Kevin I fail or quote Elham Arabi where do you cry more and the young man said you know rabbi I never thought about that but I must tell you by real heaven may know and he said why is that he said I'll tell you rabbi I never thought about it he said I'll tell you why you see because every one of us has or had a mother and every one of us knows the love and the concern and the dedication of a mother for some of us it's very hard to relate to the bay Tomic - that was so many years ago but everyone knows how our mother loves us and I'll tell you the truth when I was preparing this talk I was crying so much because I thought about my own mother when you think about rock Allah may know who's the mother of all of us and you know I saw an expression about mothers all of you that our mothers will be able to relate to it and all of us who have and had mothers especially those who like myself our mother has passed away listen to this beautiful expression about a mother who's talking to her child do you

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1. 0:00[Music] a number of years ago in Cleveland Ohio there was a Russia Shiva his name…
2. 4:57said where is my home where is my car name where are they they are gone…
3. 10:17schwa Levites he was crying at the caber at the gravesite and he said like this…
4. 15:30said little hush I'm fine and the women are hugging and kissing I mean that me…
5. 20:53terrible thing but I am and he fulfills the Xena how could that be in bottle…
6. 26:16eventually I forgot about the story a year later a lady calls me up she says…
7. 31:14I shall watch it somebody's gonna give you when you need it never will be worried…
8. 36:32about ourselves and remembering Vanessa Leu the palindrome right because when you give you're gonna get…
9. 41:55honored to write your letter and of course it's called facing adversity with faith she didn't…
10. 47:18having his Shiva when he was a kid only was sin and when he was 17…

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