Becoming an Elevated Jew - Rabbi Paysach Krohn

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[Music] [Applause] [Music] so I want to begin by telling you a very interesting story I have a daughter-in-law her name is Mrs gendel Crone she's married to my son Abraham and she's a teacher in the third grade grade in a school in Waterberry Connecticut now all of us know that the school begins in September and that's right around the time of elul so she waited the first three days you know till she got to know the girls and then on the third day she said to the girls I want to show you something I'm going to take out my cell phone now usually a teacher does not take out a cell phone and class and she said but I want to show you something I'm going to put it on speaker so that everybody can hear the call that I am about to make and she put the phone on the desk and she dialed the White House and the operator says this is the White House can I help you and my daughter-in-law says I am a teacher and we are here with 30 girls in Waterberry Connecticut in the BET Yakov and we would like to speak to President Obama so the operator says you can't speak to President Obama he's very busy so she says but we have 30 citizens of the United States isn't he the president of the citizens of the United States we would like to speak to him well he's very busy I could give him a message maybe she says well what happens if we would write him a letter do you think that he would read the letter so the operator says well President Obama gets 10,000 letters a day and we

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2. 4:41yes Hashem also Al always doesn't always say yes but he listens and that's the thing…
3. 10:21that it's going to be answered more it's obvious you don't need the to tell us…
4. 15:35one that looked like me and that right before Kabal chabbat the rabbi said now we're…
5. 20:43get in the mail something a young fellow look at this look at this beautiful poster…
6. 25:53realize is that when I was 21 my father passed away now I've had this to…
7. 31:04want to tell you a great great story and always remember this this is a story…
8. 36:15reconnect to Hashem and when we reconnect to Hashem then hopefully theot will be answered so…
9. 41:29they got the chills just like I have right now every time I tell the story…
10. 46:35look so nice and everybody is so radiant and so happy and she says I came…

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