Perashat Toldot 5786/ 2025. Rabbi Uri Lati.

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years old. One night the mother is pouring him soup and he tastes the soup and he opens his mouth and he says, "Mommy, the soup is missing salt." And she's astonished. She's surprised. He's 5 years old. His first words are, "Mommy, the soup is missing salt." So she says, "I can't believe it." She calls the husband, "Honey, honey, come over here. I can't believe it." He started speaking and they said, "I don't understand. Five years you didn't talk at all. What happened all of a sudden?" He said, "Until now, the soup had salt. Right now, the soup is missing salt." This is the anecdote. This is the story that they say that sometimes in life, we only open our mouth to prayer when we need something from when everything's going very well. It's sad to say but we forget we tend to forget God sometimes and we will learn tonight a very powerful lesson how is not only when you need something from God but is also to hang on to keep the items that has already given you as a safeguard as a as a guarantee that you will not lose what you have. You always have to open your mouth in prayer to and we see this really that so now I have to say something before we continue the class in order to understand the class that that the is not for him that the fil is not for the fil is for us to change our ways to uh rectify to amend our ways to become better to become stronger to become refined individuals and the only way that we can do that is

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