R' David Ashear - The Single Girl and the Childless Couple - Tu B'Av Together

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

I know a man who was married for five years and still wasn't blessed with a child he was told that if he would buy the colony today on Yom Kippur and pray to have a child that would be such an opportune time say he found the shul that he could afford it in and he bought it and he prayed to have a child but that year he still was not blessed he went back to that shul the following year and did it again and still wasn't blessed with a child he went back a third year this time he was being outbid by someone else there and when the price got too high he went over to that other man and said please I'm buying this because I don't have a child and I need to pray for myself and the other man said I'm buying it for my daughter who's also childless and I need to pray for her but I'll make you a deal I will give it to you and I'll even pay half on one condition when you're up there holding the Torah you pray for my daughter to have a child this year and it'll be a win-win situation because the Gemara says if you pray for someone else to have what you need you'll be answered first the man accepted and he said when he got up there to pray it was so hard for him not to mention himself but he keep he prayed for the other girl and he said I felt the pain they were going through when I sincerely ask Hashem to

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1. 0:00I know a man who was married for five years and still wasn't blessed with a…
2. 0:31third year this time he was being outbid by someone else there and when the price…
3. 1:02the Torah you pray for my daughter to have a child this year and it'll be…
4. 1:32bless them that year Baruch Hashem they both had a child prayer is wonderous and when…
5. 2:03difficult and to want it so badly that you're gonna pray for them is even more…
6. 2:34be told you are credited for making twenty shidduchim you are credited for getting fifteen people…
7. 3:06we don't even know sometimes who we're praying for but Hashem is keeping track and sometimes…
8. 3:36her childless couple the entire year and they were praying for her and she was delighted…
9. 4:08finally came and that night after I celebrated the first thing I did was I went…
10. 4:40Hashem appreciating our tippy Lord from each other was amazing this tuba of let us storm…

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