Acknowledge Your Greatness | Rabbi Shlomo Cynamon

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Everybody in the world, in the Torah world, is looking to strengthen our Emunah. Emunah is the basis of everything that we're all looking to Shteig and grow in. But there's another point of Emunah. When the Alter of Slabodka was asked, what does he believe is the mission statement of his Yeshiva, the great Yeshiva of Slabodka, he said, The pasuk that we say in Ashrei. And the Alter said, The simple reading of the pasuk, the plain reading is for every person to know the greatness of Hashem. The Alter said: We can also read the pasuk, every person should know his power, his strength. Many of us have Emunah in Hashem, but we don't have Emunah in ourselves. The Alter said: The Yeshiva of Slabodka is to give people the Emunah in themselves. The great Ribnitzer Rebbe, I remember him on 15th Avenue in Boro Park. He used to wait and daven late, but he wanted to daven with a Minyan of people who didn't daven yet. And he had people waiting to daven with him. One night, it was 2:00 in the morning and there were only eight plus him.

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1. 0:02Everybody in the world, in the Torah world, is looking to strengthen our Emunah. Emunah is…
2. 0:36The Alter said: We can also read the pasuk, every person should know his power, his…
3. 1:10The Chasidim felt bad. They went out into the street in Boro Park and they saw…
4. 1:40Everyone was quiet. And he said it again: Did everybody not daven? This person had no…
5. 2:11Is it getting registered in Himl, in Shomayim? And I always think: Meh, what is my…
6. 2:42I don't want to be מאריך. This happened on numerous occasions. Every one of our Tefillos…
7. 3:13and that'll be the impetus, that'll be a catalyst to bring the ישועת השם בקרוב בימינו.…

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