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Once upon a time, 50 years ago, there was a rabbi named Rabbi Aharon Kotler Koller, a rabbi in a yeshiva in America, but before he was in America, he was the rabbi of the head yeshiva in Russia, and the situation in the yeshiva was difficult financially, and he went to America to collect money for the yeshiva. He made an appointment with the rich man on Friday. Friday, the rabbi was going to a meeting. Friday, the situation was difficult here. Shabbat was approaching. He couldn't get back to his house. He couldn't get He couldn't get back to his house. He couldn't get back. So he came to a small town and he was looking for Jews who would welcome him on Shabbat. He looked at the faces of the people on the street. He saw that the faces of Gentiles were searching and searching. He was looking for Jews. Shabbat was coming soon. The rabbi asked if he knew a Jew. So he said, "You see, this is a house here. This is a Jew." The rabbi went and knocked on his house. He knocked on his door. The rabbi saw a rabbi. The rabbi said to him, "Shabbat is coming soon. I need Shabbat." He went to the Jewish house. He said, "Shabbat is coming soon." He said, "Shabbat is coming soon. I need Shabbat." He said, "Shabbat is coming soon." But you are a religious rabbi, a great rabbi, and we at home eat unkosher food at all. The rabbi was shocked. He asked the owner of the house, "Is there another Jew here?" "Is there another Jew in the moshav here?" At the moshav he said to him, "Yes, there is a Jewish name,
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