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A hashkafa shiur on tragedy and its connection to current events, given by Rabbi Mendel Kessin.
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tonight which is interesting well I really should say tomorrow is she was about Thomas that's what tomorrow is tonight is the you know sort of like the before she was about Thomas so I thought it would be interesting in a certain sense to talk a little about Thomas sort of like talk about what I think is very significant on that day you know uh so before I begin let me just say that this year should be a blessing and a merit for the health and success of the families of Regina pacioseph and and yes [Music] she should be uh of these people in any case you know what we're really doing I mean obviously we're entering the period of What's called the nine the three weeks which obviously culminates in the nine days which ends really with Tish above you know so we're familiar with the concept of Tish above and obviously the the main concept of Tish above is where the first space Amigos and the second base to make this were destroyed actually in the same day Tish above which is the ninth day above you know so really we have to think about is what the concept of horben really is and some of the ideas that are connected to the idea of Holborn you know and one of the things that I want to mention is um is there some type of a consolation for that and I believe there is and I have a fact it even has a name foreign [Music]
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- 0:00tonight which is interesting well I really should say tomorrow is she was about Thomas that's…
- 5:39reality is the nishama is this of the ain't safe you see now again we have…
- 11:56physical body but the body was uh very fine not like what we have therefore he…
- 18:09completely neutral we've got zayama in us and it drives us crazy you see so much…
- 24:23see because devotion was really there was a level of intensity of the srina that we…
- 31:40already had World War II going on you had Hitler or the roads and so on…
- 37:22that war absorbed the brutality of the Messianic war of course no it's there still will…
- 43:41when did that have 1776 that was the birth of the United States July 4th 1776…
- 49:52which is Messianic because on that day evil entered the Zooma entered but on that day…
- 56:08Messianic but the requirement as the evil has to have its last stand there has to…
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