CHODESH IYAR: roadmap to redemption

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

Shalom U'vracha Yedida Hayedidim. My dear friends, it's so exciting to be back after Pesach. It's now Rosh Chodesh Iyar Tafshin Pey Vav. I'm sitting here in Yerushalayim Ir HaKodesh filled with gratitude, filled with hakaras hatov. For those of you who have been following my story, so you know that we were supposed to be in a beautiful island over Pesach near Greece, the island of Rhodes. Kodesh Baruch Hu had different plans. Kodesh Baruch Hu decided that he needed Kodesh Baruch Hu decided that he needed the Nissl family to be here in Eretz Yisrael so that we could take care of our beautiful grandchild, well really the family of her beautiful grandchild Yosef Shalom ben Chava, who was in a bike accident on Erev Pesach. And Baruch Hashem, while the parents were taking care of the child in the hospital in the area, we moved to Karmiel and we basically ran the Seder. We were there for Shabbos, we were there for Pesach Chol HaMoed. And Baruch Hashem, we had the zechus to And Baruch Hashem, we had the zechus to help out when we were truly needed. We normally were a private family. We don't talk about what goes on in our homes, but Erev Shvi'i shel Pesach, we were in panic mode. We had a lot of bad news from the doctors. And I put up a WhatsApp and that's how I think a lot of you have been davening for Yosef Shalom ben Chava. Honestly, honestly, we felt your tefilos in such a powerful way because by the time that Shvi'i shel Pesach was over,

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1. 0:03Shalom U'vracha Yedida Hayedidim. My dear friends, it's so exciting to be back after Pesach. It's…
2. 5:11that I'm doing over here and uh all criticism is very very much appreciated. So, I…
3. 10:50For the second group who waited to see and were not most in their fish. They…
4. 15:54daven for the sun to rise. Hashem says there's no purpose in davening for the geulah,…
5. 21:29Bricha was explaining to Moshe Rabbeinu, the tefila cannot possibly work over here. Cuz tefila needs…
6. 27:08Bottom line is is that that was the microcosm. So was the Kush Baruch in macrocosm,…
7. 32:20Nachshon had discovered. There was no water there. It was all a mirage. It was all…
8. 37:59And finally I can get to what I want to talk about. This is all really…
9. 43:09at Shvi'i shel Pesach. So, just one more little hora, which is the same point, but…
10. 48:48the yam of assimilation. The simple yam over there is all the yidden that we've lost.…

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