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A class on the meaning of being precious to Hashem, inspired by Dr. Paul Kalanithi's message to his daughter.
A 15 min hashkafa shiur by Rabbi Yaakov Klein. 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 Rabbi Yaakov Klein’s own words— taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.
then when a person arrives at this way of thinking of living really living this way then we begin to understand what it means of Alim it's not a metaphor it's not to quote Joe Biden hyperbole anyway says this it's not hyperbole right it's not it's not a metaphor it's not hyperbole it's the most literal of literal Expressions adors us like a father adors and here's the key not a grown-up child that would be beautiful enough perhaps not even uh a uh you know teenager a toddler but the smallest of infants we in all of our mistaken wanderings in all of the our mistaken wanderings in all of the the trouble we think we bring to God and the world and if only we could just get our act together and with all of it we cannot begin to imagine the shash the pleasure as says in Z we cannot begin to imagine the pleasure that takes in us just as we are for who we are for what we are and we're almost conditioned to not believe this it almost like insults us to hear this it almost like insults us to hear this it's it's it's it's very sad we don't know how to feel love anymore we just don't know so I want to read you something that's going to help us remember okay but this will end there's a book that I discovered yesterday in the home where I was uh privileged enough to stay with my family for chabas and it was one of those books that I had to stay up till 2:30 in the morning last night
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- 0:01then when a person arrives at this way of thinking of living really living this way…
- 1:38it almost like insults us to hear this it's it's it's it's very sad we don't…
- 3:10to finish you know actually finish his schooling at 36 years old he was diagnosed with…
- 4:41old so I want to read you it's a selection of different parts of the book…
- 6:11smart a chief resident will advise a junior learn to be fast now you can learn…
- 7:43administrative tasks before leading the hospital leaving the hospital however far post Meridan use stood feels…
- 9:16never meaningless now the time of day meant nothing the day of the week scarcely more…
- 10:47recurrence and eventually death perhaps later than I think but certainly sooner than I desire there…
- 12:19future my daughter Katie I hope I'll live long enough that she has some memory of…
- 13:51are we are precious Das as we are we are a blessing to the world that…
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K'Rachem Av: Precious to Hashem, As We Are15:01
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