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Surrender, Unblending, Sweetening: The Baal Shem Tov’s 3-Step Program to Authentic Living
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Welcome everybody. Thank you very much for gracing us. Welcome back and may all of you and all of us be blessed with a beautiful healthy spring and summer materially and spiritually and emotionally with abundance of blessings for you and your loved ones. May we see complete victory and complete redemption speedily in our days. Amen. Today's class is dedicated by Rabb Ben Miriam and his family who graciously dedicate the class in memory of his dear parents Schlima Ben Yakov and Rifka and his mother Miriam Marav and Bella Nishma. May their souls be an everlasting source of inspiration and love and empowerment and thank you so very much. Today's class is also dedicated by Rabbitson Esther Marowitz. That's Hindi's mother. Hindi's mother. Famous Hindi's mother in honor of Hindi's grandmother's yard site. Rabbit said Marowitz's mother's yard site which is today. >> Mrs. Marowitz. Okay, Hindi, you agree? >> Yeah. >> Okay, I'll follow your order. So, Mrs. is Marowitz's mother's yard site is today, Kava Bas Reb Ezrael, whose yard site is on the fourth day of year. She was a Holocaust survivor who witnessed her parents being taken to the gas chambers as the youngest child. She couldn't bear to be separated from her mother. She ran after her and her older sister struggled to pull her back from the line of death, but saved her life and she survived. And after the war, she and her sister, the only survivors of a very very large family, immigrated to and she built a large, beautiful family of uh generations and generations of uh dedicated,
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- 0:01Welcome everybody. Thank you very much for gracing us. Welcome back and may all of you…
- 6:18because in hill sandwich first of all it was a lafa second of all there were…
- 12:26be recorded in the Tanakh is the Nvi Malaki who lived in the beginning of the…
- 18:41descended on the mountain with his mer with his chariot and over there there's some mystical…
- 25:00to sweeten the judgments in their source. This is the secret of davening that my teacher…
- 31:16there's which my teacher explained. So the first thing Hashem was telling the first Jew is…
- 37:36Shal by the creator of the world to focus on one agenda which is survival. It…
- 43:45thinks more in terms of what is going to contribute or take away from my survival.…
- 49:58I may be a wreck. Those emotions are really, really overwhelming. And you know what? One…
- 56:08judge has to listen to the opinions and choose the verdict. Take the hammer, bang it…
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