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Spiritual Remedy for Foot Pain | Letter #17

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Rabbi Shais Taub

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a actual physical booklet like we had last year uh it may not be ready until after the course is done but if you want to have a Keepsake a Memento way of going back to these letters and studying them again and again that will be uh that will be possible God willing okay um tonight's letter Let's Just Jump Right In you test other new test Brooklyn the dev is writing to new test Brooklyn the dev is writing to a man by the grace of God the 19th of the second month of other 5719 that's the spring of 1959 Brooklyn great England blessings in response to your letter is from over a month earlier only now arrived here it only now reached me but cautious you ask for a blessing in the format known as a pan pan is an acronym a soul Redemption we've spoken about a pawn before earlier it's a specific type of letter that hasid writes to a rabbit requesting blessings it's a specific type of Correspondence and has a very specific formula where one requests blessings and uh one requests blessings and uh it is it is usually properly accompanied by uh some monetary uh um there needs to be a gift of tadaka there needs to be a monetary component with with the pawn um sort of the way I've heard it described metaphorically as like putting a stamp on the envelope um so that's what a pawn is so that's what a pawn is and uh the Reba would receive these these petitions for prayer and bring them to the oil the resting place of his father-in-law that's what the devil would do with a pawn that's what he would explicitly say in fact he's going to say this right now

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  2. 5:10building on it so the devil says because you're involved in a shul o interesting that…
  3. 10:27um the way that Hebrew works you can just use the masculine and it includes everybody…
  4. 15:10um measures that the person's supposed to take for his healing and perhaps we don't know…
  5. 19:49or that idiom derives from so if you want to strengthen your body you can do…
  6. 24:30in honor of the upcoming 90th birthday right because we said this was the 26th of…
  7. 29:06definitely hard to make behavioral choices that are aligned with that so in the abstract yes…
  8. 33:43that happens to him veeda butter and he's going to know clearly that as long as…
  9. 38:17in that experience and be like no no you know just shrug it off what do…
  10. 42:56that if we work he's going to bless the handiwork that we put when we put…

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