Rabbi Chaim Mintz discusses the balance between faith and personal involvement in spiritual life.
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if you remember two weeks ago we were in the middle of a very interesting episode in the life of yaakov avinu and rachel and leia last week we had the wonderful shower broke us here we hope to have more of them some of the young people about to get married soon and we'll make sure everybody's from them too and we'll have i'll dance together and be very happy for their simcard we up to the part where rouvain the son of leia brought home the judoyan the mandrake plants which are helpful to help a woman conceive and he brought it to his mother leia and rocco asked leia for them and leia got upset with her as we mentioned i don't want to go into the whole thing just to bring us up today to whole thing just to bring us up today to refresh your memories and she said you took my husband away from me now you take him to do dying away from me and therefore russell said therefore tonight was my night to be yaakov avinu but you may take over this night and give me the dodoing give me these mandrakes maybe they'll help me become pregnant remembers leia already had four children and bill had two children zilbathus and broco had no children at all at all yet she was looking to find some way that she should become pregnant and to have the child so she figured maybe the two dorm might do the trick to do him have that that power to help along and because she gave up that night to be with the great sadducee
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