Inspiration in India | Rabbi Reuven Schmeltzer

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The opening of this shiur, in Vayimaen’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

A Thomas of an artist stroll was invited to speak someplace to a crowd and they were surprised to see in the middle he says he's a bal shuvah. Such a Thomas like that, wow. And he started to say, I was brought up in a from home but I thought that happiness was elsewhere and I slid down and I wound up with a bunch of friends in India. One day I wasn't feeling well. I was so sick. In the evening I had to be hospitalized. My friends brought me to the hospital and they checked me and they said, you have a rare illness, your stomach has to be cleaned out. You need stomach has to be cleaned out. You need to stay away from any food and drink, nothing should pass your lips for the next 24 hours and then we could see what we could do for you. Laying in the bed there I called my mother in Eretz Yisrael I had a relationship with her and I wanted to tell her just what's going on. No answer. In the morning I called, no answer. I called tens of times and there was no answer. Finally in the evening, night, I called home and she answered. I said, Mommy, what happened? How come you didn't something was wrong? How come you didn't answer the phone a whole day? She says, what? I thought that you observe Yom

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1. 0:06A Thomas of an artist stroll was invited to speak someplace to a crowd and they…
2. 0:37stomach has to be cleaned out. You need to stay away from any food and drink,…
3. 1:07what? I thought that you observe Yom Kippur at least. Even Yom Kippur you don't keep.…
4. 1:37picked myself up, took the next flight and I didn't leave the Beis Medrash since then.…
5. 2:07from falling, and I had to hesitate. I was in the middle of Baruch Atah. I…
6. 2:37intricacy. Everything is controlled just in order for me to have that moment where I could…

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