The King and the Mountain Man

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

[singing] [music] [singing] [music] [singing] >> Hashem's loving grace, welcome to Moon hour. Tonight's lesson is entitled The King and the Mountain Man. And we're going to tell a parable. It's an exciting story based on an adaptation an exciting story based on an adaptation of an ancient Hasidic parable that was first told some 250 years ago by the Hasidic master Rebbe Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev. And last year at this time of the year, the Melitzer Rebbe told it. So let me give it over. He told it in the original Yiddish, I translated it in English, and you get to be the first ones to hear it. Bezrat Hashem, this particular Right now it's after sundown in Israel, and this is the beginning of the month of Elul. This is already considered the high holidays, and because we holidays, and because we said the Yom Kippur Katan prayer, the miniature Yom Kippur prayer on the eve of Elul, and Baruch Hashem, our Sefardi brothers, they begin saying Slichot, and we're all preparing for the high holidays. This corresponds to the 40 days, the 30 days between now and Yom Kippur corresponds to the 40 days. So 30 days between now and Rosh Hashanah, and another 10 days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, together 40 days. This corresponds to the 40 days that Moses spent on Mount Sinai with Hashem atoning

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1. 0:01[singing] [music] [singing] [music] [singing] >> Hashem's loving grace, welcome to Moon hour. Tonight's lesson is…
2. 3:38of time and direction. And the king wandered far beyond the confines of the palace grounds.…
3. 6:38touched the king's neck, and it sent a shiver from the bottom of the king's spine…
4. 9:41visible in the distance. I trust you can reach the palace from here, your majesty. I…
5. 12:46day at his at the king's side. One short year after arriving at the palace, Vasily…
6. 15:51villages. On the foundation of several truthful facts, he built a mountain of lies with hermetically…
7. 18:57Contempt of court! This an outrage!" Constantinov's became flesh his face blushed came a full pink…
8. 22:02erected in the center of the square. Tens of thousands of people have arrived from all…
9. 25:07it into shreds. Well, Vasily was released and restored to his former position with full honors.…
10. 28:09executed, he dons his old woodsman's guard made from sheepskin. And this is indicative why sheepskin?…

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