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The Hidden Purpose Behind a Guest’s Visit | Letter #10 of Thirty Letters in Thirty Days 5786

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Rabbi Shais Taub

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Um it is I don't know is it like 10? Can't even keep track here. Anyways, I'm opening up my phone because you know the ritual what we do. Um gifts of tzedakah before gifts of Torah study. So let me unsilence my phone and pull up the Pushka app, Chabad Pushka app. You see it looks like a Chabad Pushka. Chabad Pushka. I don't know how closely you can see it. Okay, and we're going to go like this. Uh, hold on. I gave a dollar and I didn't even get the sound cuz I didn't unsilence it properly. Okay, here we go. Yay! Lots of fun. So much fun. Okay. of Igros, letters from Tavshin Tavshin Tes Zain from uh the end of 1950 five the beginning of 1956. Here we go. Baruch Hashem, Khas Kislev Tavshin Tes Zain, Brooklyn Shalom Uvracha, written to a man. I don't really know who this person is receiving the letter. I couldn't figure out much about him either from the letter. Um but let's Um but let's let's read. Okay. So, the person wrote two letters. I guess he enclosed them in the same envelope. A letter from Cheshvan and also a later one from Hey Kislev. And now this response is coming and Cheshvan Kislev three days after the second letter. You write in it about the visit of Mr. You write in it about the visit of Mr. So-and-so. I don't know who Mr. So-and-so is. And his family. Sometimes that just means him and his wife. Sometimes it means him and his wife and his kids. She may they be well. It was hard for you to grasp, to apprehend the purpose of their visit. Okay.

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  1. 0:00Um it is I don't know is it like 10? Can't even keep track here. Anyways,
  2. 3:05Okay. So, >> [sighs and gasps] >> I'm doing a lot of assumptions over here. Some
  3. 6:11teaching us what things should be. Big ideas, fundamental ideas. Even call them axiomatic ideas that
  4. 8:42Yichud of Tanya would explain that everything in creation exists because Hashem spoke it into being.
  5. 11:48is. Okay. Um so let's continue in the letter. Fascinating. All right. Who can I do?
  6. 14:21needed to meet the letter writer. You understand? The Rebbi was speaking to the to the
  7. 17:35because you're the one who is able to help them. It's crazy. Imagine if we viewed
  8. 20:12it's not over. Take it seriously now and seek out opportunities to to help this guy.
  9. 23:16But the whole path and why she moved there and you know, it and she has
  10. 25:53divrei harayfei lamatzah zugasei tichyeh. Now, what you write about your wife's health es is gornisht

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