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We Are Perfectly Imperfect - [Blue Ridge Mishmar] - Parshas Balak

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Rabbi Daniel Kalish

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My wife is here. Together with my son of his wife present in this room right now, but that two Russia Yeshiva started Yeshiva that during the year is in New York. And it's a source for our city that they come learn here in the summer. The last how many summers the last? Six years. The last six summers that they come to extend their time and we're so happy that they bring the Yeshiva to that they bring the Yeshiva to Waterbury. Some of the guys from the Yeshiva are here. It's a It's an amazing source for our city. Amazing source. Very sincere Yeshiva. I I enjoyed the years I was part of I played sports with the guys one or two one and a half years. One year I played a lot of sports with them. I'm slowing down a little and don't like showing that off. But but I was happy to play ball with them for one summer but much more importantly to hang with the guys. My kids and I in the And and to see this Yeshiva in action. It's a beautiful place. The It's Torah is learned and Torah is taught the way I designed it. It's not a family. It's a family. It feels that way. I've been happy to have them bring in sweat to have them love them all to have It feels like a family. That's That's how I taught us. Torah is given over to children. It's not like it's the Torah calls tell

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  1. 0:00My wife is here. Together with my son of his wife present in this room right
  2. 6:12So you see it's not it's not it's not a partial thing. I don't I don't
  3. 13:57>> [singing] >> Why me?
  4. 21:00The secret of the Rambam. The secret of Aaron Akoin. And the emes dik of pshat
  5. 27:08says this many times and many places if a person identifies with the head that he
  6. 33:18the insecurity of one who has to pretend again no moment and perfection. That's That's a
  7. 39:30like kind nishama she to be toyera, to see that in others as well. That's the
  8. 46:23not a lack Others don't see in. Others don't get to weigh it and measure that
  9. 52:35means the exact same thing. And Ulla said that's a good offer. What if you could
  10. 58:50masking. One thing all of us know my brother all of it is amazing and he

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