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The Year We Didn’t Blow Shofar - Rabbi Duvi

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Rabbi Duvi Bensoussan

A Torah message on the year without shofar by Rabbi Duvi Bensoussan.

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amen thank you just bear with me one minute because we're trying to get my name to appear i'll do that oh you're able to do it yes okay even better all right so bear with me one minute here we go okay good evening ladies and gentlemen i think the best way to start adidas is with a blessing i'd like to start with a bit i all right ladies and gentlemen we're holding 48 hours before the biggest day of the year before the biggest day of the year and that means that it's time to prepare to be ready to go out and fight and give everything we got on the greatest representation for what's going to decide the entire coming year we've got a lot of work to do and just a few days to do it open your hearts i think this year open your hearts i think this year we're all taking roshana and yom kippur a little bit more seriously than maybe many of the years that led up to today and no question could you imagine a year ago on that great day of roshana a year ago it was decided everything that we already lived through this coming year could you imagine if somebody would have could you imagine if somebody would have came into shul last year and he walks in the middle of teatro farm and he comes in and he says everybody wait put down the shofar for a minute i have an important announcement i got to tell you what's coming at us this coming year and we look at this guy and we say who's this guy he says guys guys listen this coming year is going to be all

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  1. 0:14amen thank you just bear with me one minute because we're trying to get my name
  2. 6:45for the coming year where you have no idea what's coming at you and where the
  3. 13:05and it's such a powerhouse tefillah a voice that no angels can stand in front of
  4. 19:25how do you understand this i want to tell you a fantastic hey douche i want
  5. 25:36for the coming year last year's guy died this year's guy briya step two the shofar
  6. 31:48and you're bringing it to shul are you all there carrying lulav and it rock this
  7. 38:06he did the study it was either the worst holocaust horrible years or the best most
  8. 44:15battered up and the king says my daughter what happened to you who did this to
  9. 50:25a metorigoman they brought a translator and the translator sat between them and the rebbe he
  10. 56:40the store's out of business says that shabbat is the sign on the store of the

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