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Rabbi Mendel Kessin discusses the significance of Turkey’s earthquake in a hashkafa shiur.
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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Mendel Kessin’s own words— taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.
before I begin there apparently today's Tuesday but yesterday which by the way was to be shot right there was an incredible catastrophe actually that happened in Turkey and from what I understand uh it's absolutely devastating you know but before I begin let me just mention this year should be it should be a blessing and a merit for the health and blessing and a merit for the health and success of the families of Regina basio are you sure you've been Israel the young and wolf Ben two years and burgundy wolf yeah in any case so I wanted to speak a little about that very briefly you know because this kind of thing is obviously uh you know something which uh should be mentioned should be brought about brought down and so on you know anyway what's interesting is that anyway what's interesting is that happened what happened first of all as far as I know I have limited resources here I'm calling I'm giving you shift for marriage as well but it happened uh you know Monday of something like 5 a.m in the morning uh which is uh now tuba shot we know right uh and I'm going to speak about that today uh because it just happened uh you know yesterday and so on but this Devastation this earthquake happened onto vishwat happened onto vishwat and uh in fact what happened was is that it was a 7.8 earthquake on the Richter Scale which is very powerful very powerful it's unusual and I understand that thousands and thousands of people have died somebody told me that 5 000 buildings have collapsed could you imagine and we're not talking about two family houses we're talking about you know maybe 10-story buildings and so on could you imagine
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