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Surgery

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Rabbi Fischel Schachter

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Give you an idea of the Messiah when he had his open heart surgery. And somebody asked me to say his name. Show me the first. When he had his open heart surgery, he asked very much of the doctor that the doctor should take him off the oxygen before Shabbos. The doctor said he was he wanted it very badly. He said he said, "Rabbi, why?" So he said the oxygen is bottled oxygen from before. He wants to breathe in the Shabbos air. That was his That was a little bit of a mussar. He asked the doctor, "Is there any lavush that he could possibly put on that he would be allowed to wear even in the news when he goes to the ICU?" So

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