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Purim: When Rabah “Slaughtered” the Ego of Reb Zeira

7.7K views · Mar 13, 2024

Rabbi YY Jacobson

Torah class on a Talmudic story from Megilah 7b by Rabbi YY Jacobson.

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okay welcome everybody there's one source sheet just one page and today's class is dedicated by Dina dornbush in loving memory and Le nishas her dear friend Sarah B of blessed memory may his soul be bound up in the Eternal Bond of life and remain an eternal source of blessing and inspiration for you and the entire family and all of the Jewish people thank you you very very much somebody shared with me a a beautiful story really very uh extremely touching they didn't know who wrote it I don't know who wrote it but someone someone shared it with me I want know uh I want to share it with you for the beginning of the class this fellow writes he says that for years says he and his wife dreamt of spending a beautiful chabas in the walor aor hotel in hotel in yush and uh this past weekend after a lot of saving money and planning they finally made this happen so he writes the hotel is stunning the food was the next level but I didn't expect the shabas morning that I had he says Friday night they realized he and his wife realized that there was a very large contingency of colorful people staying at the hotel and they didn't seem like the normal clientele the regular clientele of the W of FIA in y so he

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