The Child Everyone Gave Up On—Until This Happened - Rabbi Yitzchok Fingerer

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So, for me this is a homecoming. I was a staff member here decades ago in Chaim. As a matter of fact, I think 30 years ago today, the day before Tisha B'Av, we made produced a cantata. And ad Yom Hazeh, until today, people still tell me I gave them nightmares. So, I guess it was effective, you know. Really, maybe too effective. We staged it that man and it really looked too realistic. So, it's an honor and a joy to be here with everybody, Rabbi Weiss. I feel so special. You guys are the school. You really have a privilege to be working at Chaim, the best camp in this in really in the city, maybe in the country. So, I just want to share words from the heart. In this week's parsha, it says, "Shema Yisrael Hashem Elokeinu Hashem Echad." It's in the Torah. I remember I was once a rebbe in Yeshivas Yisrael and boys told me, he says, "Why do you have to say Shema every day?" It's rabbinic. I said, "What are you talking about? It's rabbinic." I opened up a safer Devarim parshas Vayishlach and I showed him Shema Yisrael Hashem Elokeinu Hashem Echad is in the Torah. We say it every day, twice a day, at least twice a day. Says in Magen Avraham in Shulchan Aruch in Siman Aleph Hey, "Nahargin leetain yedeihem that the minhag Yisrael is we place our hands on our eyes when we say Shema." The Mishna Berurah, even though it's Mishna Berurah over there, says, "Lo davka hands cuz it says yedeihem, doesn't mean both hands, but you're

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