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The STORY of the Broken Oven

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Rabbi Yonah Carlebach

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Lately, I've been asked a lot about Hashgacha Protis. What does it mean? What are we doing with it? So, first let me tell you a story. The story is that there was a kid You live in Jerusalem. And he was a truck driver. He was a firm guy, a Arab guy. And he was a truck driver. And as a truck driver, he used to mostly his job was to deliver the goods job was to deliver the goods that his boss was selling him. And he would go around making all the local deliveries that it needed to be made. Anyways, what happened was it was also besides that um his boss let him do like in his lunch break, his boss let him use the truck to do private jobs that he didn't have to share with the boss. But and he was able to use it on his own. His boss was very nice to him. Anyways, one day Anyways, one day he decides he gets a call from a lady that she bought an oven from somebody, a used oven, and she wanted the oven brought to her house so she could use it. So, he goes to the place and he picks up the oven. And he brings it to the lady's house. And as he's unloading it from the truck to bring up to her house the oven falls on the floor.

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  1. 0:01Lately, I've been asked a lot about Hashgacha Protis. What does it mean? What are we
  2. 0:31job was to deliver the goods that his boss was selling him. And he would go
  3. 1:31the oven falls on the floor. And the glass to the oven and the front door
  4. 2:02and she knew it wasn't his fault and she felt guilty asking him to pay pay
  5. 3:05around about another way and it wasn't the normal way he would go home, but since
  6. 4:05everything else. And the lady told him, "By the way, you should know that I felt
  7. 4:35who was working honestly, and he did everything right that he was supposed to be doing.
  8. 5:40Every once in a while, he lets us see the big favor that he did for
  9. 6:11minute, all the time. And what he's trying to show us is that once in a
  10. 7:11muscle from fish. Fish who don't have any eye in horror on them. The eyes are

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