A Tisha B’Av shiur on darkness and loneliness in quarantine.
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one thousand nine hundred and fifty two years who would ever believe that we'd still be here and after everything we went through a long laundry list of tragedies that fill the history books with blood always coming back to the same nation the chosen people of amnesty 1 952 years let me tell you where it all began i want to recite to you with gemara team that spares no detail i want to recite to you a story that is so heart-wrenching but this is where it heart-wrenching but this is where it began was destroyed the great kohingado review ben alicia was murdered with the ten great giants of israel and here his son and his daughter they're kidnapped they're captured they're captives one group of captured the son of rabbit yishmael another group captured the daughter of ishmael the son of rabbi smile queen gadol was a very handsome guy the daughter of ishmael was magnificently beautiful and sure enough these two going the heads of the two groups heads of the two groups one goal turns to the other the big master and he says to the other guy wow did i capture a kid the most handsome kid you've ever seen in your life he's my cat he's my evid the other guy says here did i capture a girl the most beautiful the most magnificent girl you've ever seen little did they know that they were little did they know that they were brother and sister so one boy looks at the other guy and the light bulbs go on and they say wait i have the most handsome evan you have the most beautiful of a shava you know what let's put them together and their children will make us a fortune of money
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- 6:46amy you're my they died in each other's hands heart broke asks to ben yo yada…
- 13:04the great mageed he explains yes in the earlier makote there might have been more of…
- 19:32it bothers me i hear so many people say did you hear in israel now there's…
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- 31:57when i put my hopes in when i put my security in suddenly just went up…
- 38:08our sense of taste a sense of smell and we started to panic and we said…
- 44:24it's amazing gusman when he opened his yeshiva in jerusalem turns out that yeshiva was right…
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- 56:49till now it was all about the rat race it's where you stand and where i…
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