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Emunah (Faith) When Your House is Burning Down - by Rabbi Benzion Klatzko - Personal Story!

3.5K views · May 6, 2019

Rabbi Benzion Klatzko

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the rabbi had mentioned that I started Shabbat calm Shabbat calm is a website that helps people find places for Shabbos in 121 countries including Israeli soldiers including American soldiers including converts including single mothers and we have nearly 600,000 people have found places for Shabbos real the numbers a lot higher because they also do it through the messaging but 600,000 is a good enough number we also make between six and eight shidduchim a month six and eight matches a month that's one of the matches a month that's one of the matters I'm going back to is connected to that and we also help you to find people jobs and reverses it all's from a website shabbat calm and by the way there's a donate button okay anyways I'm not saying I'm just saying so well III want to share with you what happened we we had this fire in the house and it burnt our house burned down right before Pesach which means that all my students and say all rabbi you brought your comments which was funny the first 99 comments which was funny the first 99 times then I wanted to just like give them a rabbinical Marcus anyways we had no place to go and the insurance first wanted to stick us and they're like Howard Johnson or Motel 6's so that's not gonna work we need pays that have you know we need we need ambience we need coach your cousin we need a service they said well what do you have in mind I said well there's such a thing called a place like hotel they said what is that going to cost for a family or we have ten kids at the time I there are we priced that I

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  2. 0:32matches a month that's one of the matters I'm going back to is connected to that…
  3. 1:33the time I there are we priced that I it's gonna be about twenty grand for…
  4. 2:35rebuild our lives afterwards after the fire took us a year to get back in the…
  5. 3:07Shabbos that week I thought of the idea of Shabbat calm I thought hey wouldn't it…
  6. 4:08I took her name she became friendly with the family great the guy what's your name…
  7. 5:10end up in the hotel where you connect the dots that guy was there to hear…
  8. 5:41welcome I'd love to help you but I live in Muncie nah truthful in Scotland tell…
  9. 6:43to Greece I said change your vacation because I'm giving you out a free ticket she…
  10. 7:46the audience was gonna raise the funds to build a site that their Scottish girl is…

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