The Power of Giving | Tomchei Shabbos of Toronto

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi YY Jacobson’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

there's a beautiful story that i'd love to begin with i saw i read this story uh many years ago it was shared by uh by the zalman sarotskin was the very well-known rabbi of lithuania belarus before the war he ultimately made a territory syrah where he passed away in the 1960s i think 1966 and he's the author of the famous commentary on hummus called aznayim latoya he's one of the well-known lithuanian great giants of jewish wisdom and scholarship and salman sirotskin shared the following story it was about his father-in-law his father-in-law was a jew named hagorna believe gordon said the rabbi of tells in lithuania and he is the founder of the famous telzer tells a yeshiva which today was of course relocated to america to cleveland and other locations that have branches of tells but original tells of lithuania the yeshiva was founded by the blazer gordon he needed money he needed funds to support the yeshiva and he went to kiev he traveled to kiev in the ukraine and he visited the home of a very very wealthy and affluent jew and the jew opens the door and he sees the famous tells her of who is well known and he greets him and he says rebbe how can i be here for you how can i help you the blazer gordon says i need money for the yeshiva i need you to help me support the yeshiva she says how much would you like and he asks for a sum of five thousand ruble astronomical sum you know so i'll come to your house and knock on your door you'll open the door and i say you know

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1. 0:01there's a beautiful story that i'd love to begin with i saw i read this story…
2. 5:37and count them one two three four five seven ten eleven twelve one two three if…
3. 12:00hand abstaining from giving money to your poor brother and then the trader continues you should…
4. 18:11something from her gives her such pleasure such ecstasy such delight that's worth money such pleasure…
5. 24:25yes you're giving but you're taking we are worth what we're willing to share with others…
6. 31:14the word carbon is curve in other words it's something which brings me closer closer to…
7. 37:31the bride offers to give her a replacement ring free of charge he hears that she…
8. 43:51friends and girls that she reached out to with the simple objective of building a relationship…
9. 50:00very very fearful space and i explained to this woman i said you know just give…
10. 56:12joy the moment you're in a god space there's confidence and there's joy the reason i…

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