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Change Anything

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Rabbi Yaakov Mizrahi

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And the Chofetz Chaim, when he was a little boy, in school, he was asked by the Rabbi, "Who here, if you could go back in time, and you were able to change something, what is it that you would change?" And the Chofetz Chaim, a little child at the time, he was just a little kid, he said, "I wouldn't change anything." "Nothing? You could go back and the Cossacks and the pogroms and the Crusades, and you wouldn't change anything?" And he said, "If God made it like that, then it's perfect.

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