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A Torah shiur on the importance of the Bedikas Chametz ritual.
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[music] >> During the month of Elul, month of Tishrei, we say the perek of Oiri v'Yishi. And the possuk says >> [music] >> if there's a camp against me, I won't be scared. And if there will be [music] a battle against me, I have confidence in you. And the question is, what is what are we having confidence in? And the suggest that the >> [music] >> that we're having confidence in is in >> that we're having confidence in is in the battle itself. The battle is what makes us stronger. A very famous Rav Shimon Shimon Pinkus [music] used to say that the moment that he felt greatness was actually on Erev Pesach. He was an American boy who was learning in Yeshiva in Eretz Yisrael. >> [music] >> And all of the other friends who were his neighbors in his apartment had gone home, [music] and he was left alone. It was Erev Pesach, and he did bedikas chametz in the apartment. It wasn't so clean. It took a long [music] time to
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- 0:05[music] >> During the month of Elul, month of Tishrei, we say the perek of Oiri…
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- 1:06clean. It took a long [music] time to clean and do the bedikas chametz. Then he…
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- 2:37greater. And the challenges are what gives us the strength to do what's right [music] and…
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