Parashat Vayera 5786 - Rabbi Leeor Dahan

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All right. [snorts] The story goes, we'll start with the story today about Mo and Ara that were going together to a city. I believe the city was Minsk. This is a true story. It was in Europe and they were on the train were talking to each other and they didn't realize the stop came and they didn't realize the stop came and they were still on the train and the ready train continued going. They realized that they're going to have to get to the next stop which was far away. It was like a half hour train ride. They didn't know where they were and how they're going to get back to where they needed to be. And the turned to the mo and he told them a devout Torah. This is so beautiful about a lot of the Jews of old especially that they lived the Torah like everything that happened in their lives they had some connection. It reminds me what the when what the when in the 30s came to America he told them that everything that happens in the world has a basis in the Torah. Nothing happens without it being the judgment of Hashem, right? Everything that happens, everything whether uh you know the politics of the day, this Matti getting elected, the everything that happens, it's all a mishem is the judgment of Hashem, which means that it's based on the rule book. The Mishem

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1. 0:08All right. [snorts] The story goes, we'll start with the story today about Mo and Ara…
2. 4:44and he had [clears throat] direct communication lines with the it's unbelievable. The angel of death,…
3. 9:23choose our choices are subject to the will of so if we choose to do something…
4. 14:02What's in Saddam? Well, Saddam has uh you know fertile land. Saddam has money. Saddam has…
5. 18:37they're just Arabs and in the Torah knows and Torah tells us that they were actually…
6. 23:43not that's not and that's not this is not how we are supposed to be trained…
7. 28:23the level of a person in Shamim. They think very differently. We think very resultoriented. If…
8. 33:01remembers that and he gives the person a merit. That that's pretty powerful. and to look…
9. 37:37their homes because took the initiative to become busy with their technologies instead of the goim.…
10. 42:18get a mortgage. And he went to the bank and they looked at his records. They…

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