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An inspirational story from Rav Asher Freund zt"l, dedicated in memory of Mrs. Klari Safran z"l.
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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.
there was a story with the Moon it Rose and it began to shine upon the Earth and it illuminated Hills mountains and valleys and forestsman began to think to itself foreign the darkness of the Earth is a blessing to me is a blessing to me kolamar meaning to say if the Earth didn't exist and if it wasn't dark so the moon thinks to itself my light would be imperceptible Clum and it wouldn't accomplish anything and it repeated and it said to itself again the darkness of the Earth had such a blessing to me because that's the way that my light is able to be demonstrated and comes to expression in a meaningful way but suddenly vishim all of a sudden it began to hear Shah Shemesh that the sun was saying [Music] the darkness of the moon is such a the darkness of the moon is such a blessing to me this is what the moon hears the sun saying the Moon is busy saying that it's such a blessing that the Earth is dark because its light is then able to extend and spread over the darkness of the Earth and it's able to illuminate that Darkness but in the meantime the sun is saying the darkness of the moon is such a blessing to me and then the mahaber ends this story with these four enigmatic words
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- 0:30there was a story with the Moon it Rose and it began to shine upon the…
- 1:00is a blessing to me kolamar meaning to say if the Earth didn't exist and if…
- 1:31the darkness of the Earth had such a blessing to me because that's the way that…
- 2:01the darkness of the moon is such a blessing to me this is what the moon…
- 2:33with these four enigmatic words and further than this the moon was too terrify to listen…
- 3:04meaning to say the moon began to understand that the same way the Earth wasn't essentially…
- 3:35this that the moon was afraid to hear more than this could be hinting to us…
- 4:07then those calim make it seem as if they become the light source to the calim…
- 4:38doesn't have light it gets its light from the Moon and the moon doesn't have light…
- 5:08vessels that all each and every one of them without exception rely on Whose illumination alone…
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