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I want to thank the Shul Chaim for bringing us all together on this day among the many other Shiurim and events and programs and videos and lectures and seminars [snorts] that are going on here last night and today throughout the day including some presentations by actual survivors of the Holocaust which will be later in the afternoon as you could see on your signs here in the vicinity of the Shul. I also want to thank uh I have to read it to you cuz it caught my attention. [snorts] Let's see. Dear Rabbi Jacobson, Shlita. As I sit here in Yerushalayim the phrase I want the cake and I want to eat it, too comes to a new light. My wife and I can actually sit here in Yerushalayim, eat our cake at 9:30 p.m. Yerushalayim, eat our cake at 9:30 p.m. local time and listen to Rabbi YY. Looking forward. Okay. [snorts] So, uh signed Pinchas [clears throat] who actually tunes in every day. So I'm going to start off with a uh very famous statement of our sages. The Gemara says this at the end of tractate Taanit, at the end of Maseches tractate Taanit, at the end of Maseches Taanit, page 29, daf chof tes. Kol hamisabel al Yerushalayim zocheh veroeh besimchasa. Whoever mourns for Jerusalem merits and sees its joy. And obviously our sages are trying to highlight the value and the merit of Jews never forgetting never forgetting our past, our history, our story, our narrative, our tradition, our faith,
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