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A Time of Hunger | Rabbi Reuven Schmeltzer

948 views · Jan 20, 2026

Vayimaen

A Torah shiur on the spiritual hunger and its role in personal growth.

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[music] Ravul Rosengarten from Switzerland had a friend who wanted to see the he arrived very late at night. When he came to the house they told him that the [music] is not available tonight. It's too late. So he slept in the shul and in the morning he went to the house [music] and of course he was waiting there and as the d was very often the would talk and it was well known the of the was [music] the he would say things and people would think hey why is he saying that the started talking there's a hunger in the heaven talking there's a hunger in the heaven there's a famine the desires the mitzvah of the yidden there's so many yidden who are lost and there's so many yidden who are not being mim the mitzvah the [music] way they should theamm values Everyone's actions even small ones even a simple theam values as the is talking this buffer thinks to himself one second I forgot the dire last night I arrived so late the is talking to me this is what frozen got heard from this bak in a similar instance one time I asked the a

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