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An inspiring episode about Rabbi Aharon Kotler and the growth of Lakewood Yeshiva and its impact on the Jewish community.
A 1h 17m chizuk shiur by Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz. Like every video on Lehallel, it was judged and approved under the Lehallel law before it ever appeared — no unreviewed result is ever shown.


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The opening of this shiur, in Living Lchaim’s own words— taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.
and he says to me you learned everything you learned is because you were teaching hashem's children and media connected media he let you learn and everything you learned was not because you were smart or because you're capable or because you're in the right circumstance it's because you taught hashem's children he may try your heart and he says if you stop teaching hashem's children you will not have that slice of me that connected me to that really really scared me welcome back to another episode of inspiration for the nation I episode of inspiration for the nation I have been trying to get rid of iron color for a long time and I am so excited that I finally got him in his home in Lakewood irheit to talk to him about BMG his experiences and the Catskills and his his unique relationship with Russia shivas and how he did it all and what is he up to now and his view on on yirushkai he is a very amazing micro but also macro look at how things work but also macro look at how things work this episode is Lily nishmas in memory of shiman David as well as merum Sarah and you'll hear throughout the episodes I have a few gems for you uh where to buy your sric uh which which books your children should be reading and maybe you as well as another fantastic book so you'll hear more about it in this week's episode we can all use some inspiration to help
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- Chizuk — 1h 17m, by Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz
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