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Likkutei Sichos Vayechi: Why the Rebbe Rarely Spoke of Nostalgia -- The Paths of Menaseh & Ephraim

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Rabbi YY Jacobson

Likkutei Sichos Vayechi: Why the Rebbe Rarely Spoke of Nostalgia -- The Paths of Menaseh & Ephraim

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Okay. So, good morning. Welcome everybody. [snorts] Today we're going to learn something ext very very special. This is a uh classic and it's always special but today is special. This is a classic sika of the said on Shabas. It's the beginning of 1970 and uh it's published in the par as you see on the top. Thank you for making the copies at such short notice. Besides everything else, I know some of you grew up speaking Yiddish, but here you'll be introduced to authentic Yiddish. Yeah, this is uh the yiddish here is really [snorts] classic powerful yiddish, but the main finger is the theme, the hashkaf that the sika brings out is extremely um powerful and very relevant today as you'll see. Okay, today's class is dedicated by my dear mother, Mrs. Jacobson in honor of her son's birthday, Rabbi Simmon Jacobson, my brother, my special mother and special brother whose birthday is on Hey Tavis on the fifth Tavis dedicated by his mother Vashan and may he continue to light up the world with good health, happiness, prosperity and all the blessings. Amen. Maz. Yeah. Hey Davis and I also want to dedicate the class to our very dear own Mosa. Thank you. Who's going through a procedure today? You sent his name right. Amen. Okay. Bashem on Thursday we're going to start the basil of this year. We do always the basilani this year's basili an incredible mimer. So we're going to start that Thursday morning. I just want to see if I missed anything and we'll be yeah a couple of weeks I have they sent the contra Okay. Thank you so much.

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