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Rabbi Kessin On Kever Rachel And Its Relationship to Purim

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A discussion on the significance of Kever Rachel and its connection to Purim.

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Okay. So, you're in the house of Rachel's children. Um, this house was purchased about 12 years ago. Before we purchased the house, we came here and there was nobody at Keer Ruckle. There was nobody on the bus. Somebody told me they were the only one on the bus. But when I went on the bus, when they wanted to cut it out, I was when they wanted to cut it out, I was the fourth person on the bus. So I handed out flyers. And in a week and a half, I had 32 people on the bus. So when the inspector came to cancel the bus, he walked up the stairs and saw 32 people. Well, that's almost a full bus. So, he collected all our tickets and that saved the bus. So, sometimes activism makes a difference. When nobody was coming here and nobody was connected, they were going, it was the beginning of Oslo Oslo and they wanted to give away Kev Ruckle or move it and my Shoul Man Beach Jewish Center decided to adopt a community. That was our meeting. But in the meeting I went home and nobody did anything. So I took this on just by myself to do this and I need everybody to support the work I'm doing. So sometimes at at the beginning when we did the haknosis safer to Torah that was after the writing

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  1. 0:09Okay. So, you're in the house of Rachel's children. Um, this house was purchased about 12
  2. 6:40>> says my connection is it's my birthday. >> Yeah. So, it's my birthday and it's
  3. 12:55enough Jews engage for whatever time period requires, he actually the Jewish people succeed in changing
  4. 19:04Jewish person is there are several ways that he does. One of them is chuva. What
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  7. 37:53Deal with the evil, destroy the evil and then bring down the kush. That's always the
  8. 44:05you know to do battle with the Sultan to to have messiness and fight to re
  9. 50:12he's doing some evil and you got to sit there and look at this guy and
  10. 56:26unbelievable. So therefore I did so said to so don't be jealous about the fact about

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