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The Spiritual Danger Nobody Talks About - Rabbi Shlomo Farhi

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Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky

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There was a rabbi uh his name was Sar Shalom. He was one of the Belerbies and he heard about this unbelievable rabbi whose name was the Jose Lublin and uh he was one of one of the greats of the era. He lived in the city of Lublin at the time and he very much wanted to go and learn with this rabbi but he had his own rabbi. He didn't want his rabbi to be upset. So he figured you know what I'll go introduce myself for a day or two. My rabbi won't realize that I went. he won't be insulted and I'll at least he won't be insulted and I'll at least have the chance to meet this great rabbi and and connect with him. Travels all the way to Lublin. Um he gets to the rabbi's residence and shock and horror the they tell him that the rabbi is not having is not accepting any visitors. He feels very bad. He's traveled all the way. So he figures he needs to find out where and when the rabbi is going to start accepting visitors. So he asks around, people tell him the only person that could know such him the only person that could know such a thing is his close student um the uh the uh great rabbi from Bishka. Okay. He goes to the rabbi. He tells him, "Listen, I came all this way just to see the the is there any way that you could tell me when you know he's not accepting visitors now? What's the story?" So the rabbi tells him, and listen to this, it's unbelievable. He said the rabbi only welcomes people as a sadik. People are coming to him as a sadik. He

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  1. 0:00There was a rabbi uh his name was Sar Shalom. He was one of the Belerbies
  2. 3:05and you shall remember Hashem your God. The rabbi feels not that he abandoned God, but
  3. 6:45forget about it and let it slip from your memory forever. Even if you've forgotten it,
  4. 9:58>> [singing] >> to believe that there is a God and there is none other but
  5. 13:40To be alone in the Bet is dangerous." So Gimar says wild gim. We need to
  6. 17:20they step on with their with their heel. If you follow those mitzvot the mitzvot that
  7. 20:31I want you to imagine, see a very wealthy person and he walks into the betet.
  8. 24:07says mitzvah that people step on with their heels answer is that's not what it means.
  9. 27:20whatever the mitzvah is, Hashem, you sanctified us, me, and you commanded me to do this
  10. 30:56and you shall remember Hashem. Well, if I haven't forgotten him, surely I have remembered him.

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