Pesach: Embrace the Light | Rabbi Naftali Reich

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The opening of this shiur, in Vayimaen’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

[music] >> Some of us may worry at times. Messiah is on his way and we're all familiar with the words of Hazal. Vayakhel Moshe Malu, a small fraction came [music] out but many perished in the plague of darkness. And we want to know, will we be Zoche to leave? [music] Let me share with you a story that I heard from my dear Hava, Reb [music] Shayale Ostroff. In the medieval times, the church ruled supreme and they were the church ruled supreme and they were extremely suspicious, dogmatic, [music] superstitious. Anybody that counted their influence was immediately imprisoned and silenced. There was a fellow, a renaissance man, a philosophical thinker, a musician, a mathematician and the church were intimidated by him and they threw him into the dungeon in the city square underneath the courthouse. It was a horrible place. Mold, rats. It It was a horrible place. Mold, rats. It didn't take long before he fell into depression. One morning, he woke up and he heard outside the prison cell the sound of amazing music and he pushed the beds to the wall. He pulled the table on top of the bed and the chair on top of the table and he climbed up holding onto the bars of the prison window and he beheld the most amazing sight. Outside there was a regiment of soldiers that were marching through the town plaza and

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1. 0:05[music] >> Some of us may worry at times. Messiah is on his way and we're…
2. 0:35the church ruled supreme and they were extremely suspicious, dogmatic, [music] superstitious. Anybody that counted their…
3. 1:05It was a horrible place. Mold, rats. It didn't take long before he fell into depression.…
4. 1:35marching through the town plaza and there was an army band next to them and the…
5. 2:06accompany the king from his [music] winter residence to his summer residence and sure enough, a…
6. 2:36Their eyes locked. The king looked at him and the king smiled at him and he…
7. 3:07ourselves up, to push the bed to the wall and the table and to recognize the…
8. 3:37the Choshech around them. They embraced the light. Then we know we're guaranteed [music] we too…

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