Simchas Torah - Breaking Down Walls | Rabbi Chaim Mintz

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[Music] so everybody i hope that you're all enjoying a wonderful joyous holiday sook is the time of our happiness time of our joy and now we're getting ready for the ultimate of all the holidays till now the day of the rejoicing with the time we take the turtle in our hands and we dance around with it an important idea to think about mumbai an important idea to think about mumbai dancing with the torah a whole circus till now every day the torah was in the middle those people go to shul they know they take out the torah in the morning prayer stand by the beam in the middle and we all walk around it with a little of a nest week every day walking around with it this seventh day we walk around seven times around the toilet the tire is away from us it's in the middle and we're walking around sometimes territory's with us we're holding it in our hands because torah is holy because torah is holy and we want to connect with torah we have to be holy but as physical human beings we have ultimate types of character traits that have to be fixed up stinginess uh laziness uh different voice of being very conceited or aloof from other we have different types of characteristics that we have to fix up in order to make ourselves holy to be worthy of being connected to the torah

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1. 0:01[Music] so everybody i hope that you're all enjoying a wonderful joyous holiday sook is the…
2. 0:31an important idea to think about mumbai dancing with the torah a whole circus till now…
3. 1:02because torah is holy and we want to connect with torah we have to be holy…
4. 1:32worthy of being connected to the torah the studying torah to keeping tyrant holding the torah…
5. 2:02had in order to get the holy land they have to make themselves holy break down…
6. 2:33all the word days of such that's who we're trying to accomplish and by the time…
7. 3:03of leading a a jewish terror life of being good people and taking care of our…
8. 3:33everybody and we hope they'll reach these high levels of connection to hashem…

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