One Time No | Rabbi Aharon Weinberg

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The opening of this shiur, in Vayimaen’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

The possuk in Eif says "Mi yiten tahor mitomei lo echod." That's in the Yotzros of Shabbos Parah, which means if you want to break out from impurity, from tumah, and you want to become pure and holy, a tahor, explained the heilige Divrei Shmuel chusai Yogan aleinu, the eitzah is "Lo echod." To say "Ein mol nein." Say once no. And the explanation is the way to fight challenges in this yoiness is not by falling in the trap and being busy fighting and battling. and being busy fighting and battling. Make sure you avoid the falling. You avoid the challenge. Escape. Lock yourself out. Say once no. There's a fascinating story that the Vitzener Rov, the K'sav Sofer, told over. When World War II broke out, there was a Yid that was very wealthy that went and he quickly liquidated all his finances, his entire wealth, exchanged it, and bought a very expensive, beautiful diamond. He took the diamond and sewed it into his boot in case of need. And he ran with that. But something even more precious

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2. 0:37and being busy fighting and battling. Make sure you avoid the falling. You avoid the challenge.…
3. 1:07that. But something even more precious that he ran with which was his one and only…
4. 1:37eyes." They locked the room, took off his boot, he tore out the diamond, and he…
5. 2:08into his bed. And he felt it's impossible for me to fall asleep. This is the…
6. 2:38save his child by grabbing a different child. And on the way from his hut to…
7. 3:09into the trees and he yelled, "I DESIRE NO MORE CHALLENGE. I lost the diamond. There's…

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