Sukkot: Surrounded by Hashem’s Protection - Rabbi Moshe Borger

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Welcome to our prekot video. We say in the Torah regarding and you should rejoice on your festival on your holiday. Question is why does the Torah call sukkot our holiday your and my holiday? And the answer is because sukkat is a time of tremendous joy. And that's what we're going to try and tap into this year. I just want to share with you a story of Raoshe Maya who is a head of a coel called Zik Moshe and he shares a story of a friend of his who is today one of the great rabbis of the generation and for a time he was in the army and his maf his officer uh and him were loggerheads because he he was a religious Jew and his mafet was a secular Jew who's grown up on a kibbutz with no connection whatsoever to Judaism. However, the young man at the time was very very strong and they had many many discussions to the point where actually his officer began to actually to to crumble a little bit and to soften and to start to believe a little bit and but then he would retract to the way he was before. This went on. They actually ended up becoming tremendous friends and they're friends until today. His Maked asked him one day, he said, "You know what? I hear what you're saying. I hear your arguments." He says, "But I'm not a believer. I don't believe. But I'll tell you something interesting. when I was in the Second World War and I was in the brigade, the Jewish brigade, and I was fighting and we were in the trenches and we had bullets flying all around us and people were being killed and I felt that

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1. 0:00Welcome to our prekot video. We say in the Torah regarding and you should rejoice on…
2. 2:03my life was on the line. All of a sudden, I found myself saying, "Rabina Shala,…
3. 4:36with festivals. Rashash Shana some people say that the 10 days in in between of rash…
4. 6:41No marital relations, eating, drinking, no wearing leather shoes, no washing. And each of these five…
5. 9:12people sleep in the suka as well. Many people spend as much time as they can…
6. 11:17I feel so close to Hashem nonetheless. And when I lie down in my suka and…
7. 13:57and they were not physical clouds in the sense of being something a strong structure. They…
8. 16:00myself, you Hashem are the one who's taking care of the direction that I'm going in…
9. 18:34[clears throat] which represent the eyes using our eyes for good things to look at the…
10. 20:38the divine name of y and hey and v and hey represents that name. And when…

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