L'Histoire incroyable d'Hillel l'Ancien - Rav Eliaou Benloulou

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Shalom dear friends, I would like to share with you a story from the Talmud, the Talmud, Shabbat chapter 30. This story continues in chapter 30, verse 2, and chapter 31, verse 1. If you wish to find it in the words, the Talmud will teach us a particular virtue that each and every one of us must cultivate in this world, a rare commodity called savlanut, patience. Ilel, the great master of the Torah, the Tanna, Ilel, the great master of the Torah, the Tanna, everyone knows him. He was the Zaken, descended from King David, the King of Israel. He himself was Nass, meaning prince of the Celestial Council of Israel, head of the Sanhedrin. There was no sage more eminent than him in his time. For the people of Israel, the greatest scholars wanted to ask him for advice; they asked him questions from all over the world. One day, two men, while conversing, spoke of him. "He is the Zaken, never sirite," said one. "He has legendary composure; no one can ever reach him." " can ever reach him." " Nothing ever angers him," the first one asserted, and the other said, "No, I don't agree with you. You'll see that if I want, I can manage to anger the great master Ilel to the point where he gets severely angry and scolds me." The second one said, "Go ahead, try it, but I think you won't succeed." The other one said, "I'm ready to bet if you really anger Ilel." The other one said, "I'll pay you 400 zou coins." It was

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1. 0:09Shalom dear friends, I would like to share with you a story from the Talmud, the…
2. 0:40Ilel, the great master of the Torah, the Tanna, everyone knows him. He was the Zaken,…
3. 1:42The other one said, "I'll pay you 400 zou coins." It was a fortune even back…
4. 2:12shower when the man who had vowed to do the truth headed towards his house. He…
5. 3:16master thinks he would have said this: "I have a question to ask you: why are…
6. 4:17the head is still a little deformed. The man left, he waited a while, an hour,…
7. 4:49afraid." The man chose another question, another one of no particular importance for Friday afternoon: "…
8. 5:51problem.' He hasn't lost his passion. 'There's no problem.' Prayer and so on, 'And answer the…
9. 6:23irritate them, he said, "Okay." He didn't know what to do anymore. He thought, " I'm…
10. 7:24told him. "Isn't it better to lose 400, 400, that's it, and even the dou rather…

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