A Short Thought for Parshas Pinchas – Mesirus Nefesh on Kiddush Hashem | by Rav Asher Weiss | 5783

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[Music] I get jobs [Music] and many times I explained in this way and if pop asks about you my son is showing him we don't have miracles when there was a famine in the land when there was a famine in the land he took off one shoe he didn't even have time to took off take off his second shoe and suddenly it was raining and pouring and we Daven and Daven ance Abaya says foreign what is real messages of other but I have walks on the street and it sees a woman that is immodestly dressed he walks over and he tears the shreds her coat or a sweater whatever she was wearing and then people told him this is not a Jewish she's not a Jewish woman she's a gentile she's not even sneeze you have no right to hurt her and he has taken aback and he turns to and he has taken aback and he turns to that woman and he says what is your name and she says my son sounds like mosaim like 200. and he says and he gives her four hundred dollars that's the end of the story and I wonder what do hazal want us to learn from the story an example of mysterious nephesh for caduceus a shame what is the example is a very respectable figure it's one of

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1. 0:01[Music] I get jobs [Music] and many times I explained in this way and if pop…
2. 0:32when there was a famine in the land he took off one shoe he didn't even…
3. 1:43and he has taken aback and he turns to that woman and he says what is…
4. 2:44she was Jewish she was not Jewish she asked her what's your name and he gave…
5. 3:46were safe she's not Jewish then even better no she's a gentile but I hurt her…
6. 4:50this material how much is it worth and I'll pay you as much as it worth…
7. 5:24the old age and he says do you know many people that could say never was…
8. 6:27so let me share with you this feeling that I said many many times probably hundreds…
9. 7:27you're becoming insane when you're mad you no longer control what you're saying what you're doing…
10. 8:36I have children and those are Pinterest genes is was a man of utmost Mercy Minnesota…

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