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Elul: The Beauty of Imperfection - Rabbi Mordechai Burg

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Rabbi Mordechai Burg

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okay i'm standing here by the coat of my ravi friday morning in her shop i was thinking as i was sitting by the hotel today how beautiful the cocktail is really just such a wonderful place to be and if the stones were perfectly aligned and perfectly smooth it wouldn't be the kotel it's it's the cracks it's the imperfections that make it beautiful and it's the same thing for us who appreciates all of our cracks all of our imperfections all of our humanity who did not design us to be perfect

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  1. 0:00okay i'm standing here by the coat of my ravi friday morning in her shop i
  2. 0:30who did not design us to be perfect because i'll tell us that before the creation
  3. 1:01and then looking back on those bumps we understand that this was all exactly the way
  4. 1:32patiently for bingham is patient with us it's a process give yourself time and space to

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