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Yaakov speaks with Shlomo Mirsky and Elana Silber about Rochelle Shoretz's cancer battle and the founding of Sharsheret.
A 58 min 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.
we also say stick to the facts we like to be our own authors and write a whole fiction story before we know any information if I had like a backache I'm like writing I'm like okay I'll start maybe I should do a will and yeah and like exactly it's a good point we slow you down but I think there it can be these concerns about you know as big as worrying about dying or as little as if I'm going in for chemotherapy and I have to lose my hair and I have to put my kids to bed tonight and they're gonna see me bald how is that going to affect my kids from those people could be worried about finances people could be worried about finances people could be worried they're making a simcha right their daughter is getting married or their sister's getting married and how do they go to the simcha looking like a cancer patient so there's a lot of things that people are concerned about welcome back to another episode of inspiration for the nation I'm yako linger and what if I told you that you're going to die you will you are going to die I am telling you that but what if I told you you're gonna die a lot sooner than you anticipated that is something no one wants to hear and in this week's episode we talk about
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- 0:00we also say stick to the facts we like to be our own authors and write…
- 5:13something way bigger than I think she thought at the time and and how old were…
- 10:52remission it was around 2004 or so but like she's you know once she started she…
- 16:30bring her work that's what she wanted to do she wanted to work and her family…
- 22:03mother's side on your father's side did they have cancer what kinds of cancer because all…
- 27:40cancer and and all that or have been going through it so I think about even…
- 33:15you just don't have the energy you're you know lying in bed and you just need…
- 38:54everything is free which I actually had a call with someone in Israel who is interested…
- 44:25to to calling Charter is that you in your own mind I mean I I've never…
- 51:06shoulders when they can really use you know the good people around you to help you…
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- Chizuk — 58 min, by Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz
- Approved by the Lehallel judge before appearing — never an unreviewed result
- Watch free during prelaunch on Lehallel
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