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Yisro: The Bread That Revived the Dead

Oorah

A thought-provoking look into Parshas Yisro with Rabbi Mordechai Beer.

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[Music] was once visiting an old friend who had taken ill and had been hospitalized the man was the head of the big the organization which takes care of the needs of the sick suddenly the man started gasping for breath the monitors went off the doctors came rushing in they pulled the curtain and started working on the man after what forever working on the man after what forever they opened the curtain and Rabbi iine walked in the man said to him Rabbi you not believe what just happened as I was having this massive heart attack I felt my soul Ascend towards the heaven into the Heavenly court and they brought before the court oh my good deeds and bad deeds and they started judging me whether I was worthy of getting back to this world or not it was absolutely terrifying and then it was decided that since I was involved in biger I was involved in taking care of the sick I'd involved in taking care of the sick I'd be allowed to return to this Earth but they didn't tell me how to get there I started wandering and what seemed to be a large desert finally I Came Upon a very large person and I asked him he tell me where to go and he said to me do you recognize me I said no he said think back 50 years ago when we were in theel me you and your father were in sh nobody wanted to take me home I was very hungry I needed something to eat and you told told your father that if he doesn't take

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  1. 0:00[Music] was once visiting an old friend who had taken ill and had been hospitalized the
  2. 0:31working on the man after what forever they opened the curtain and Rabbi iine walked in
  3. 1:01involved in taking care of the sick I'd be allowed to return to this Earth but
  4. 1:31told your father that if he doesn't take me home then you're not going to eat
  5. 2:01to this earth it's it's true that this man had a lifetime achievement of Bim of
  6. 2:31and sincere purely unadulterated Mitzvah and the Merit of that he was able to descend in
  7. 3:02fair chance give them a Mitzvah which perhaps they could accept the Torah was God's greatest
  8. 3:33to achieve closeness to God if one wants to achieve closeness to God there's no obstacle

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