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An exploration of the blessing of the righteous in the context of the Megillah of Esther.
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Okay, welcome everybody to Mayan Uptown. Mayan Uptown, one of the farm that a Mayan Uptown is featuring today is a new release, Berachas HaTzaddik, which is it's a historic publication of originally a three-volume set called Ben La'Shiri, written by Rav Yisrael Yaakov HaKohen Huberman. Rav Yisrael Yaakov HaKohen Huberman was a student of Sochaczew, the Ateres Tzvi, the Kodesh HaGlavar. And he happened to be a chavrusah of my And he happened to be a chavrusah of my great-grandfather in Sochaczew. The two of them were very close. I recently discovered that my great-grandfather gave the Tzaddik HaRanana all of his manuscripts to protect for him during the war. The Tzaddik HaRanana brought it to Siberia and he gave it back to my grandfather after the war. In any event, Rav Yisrael Yaakov HaKohen Huberman was never blessed with children. He named the sefer after his father, Asher, he called it Ben La'Shiri. And he gives a an amazing segulah he gives a an amazing segulah that he commits himself to pray every day for anyone who learns his sefer and says it over to others. You may have heard of the great miracle that happened in Eretz Yisrael with Rav Tzvi Koshalevsky. He had a baby at 88 years old. One of the things he attributes it to is daily saying over from the sefer. But that's an old miracle, so I'm on to new miracles. And the new miracle is a friend of mine told me that there was a a bakery in the Lower East Side and
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- 0:00Okay, welcome everybody to Mayan Uptown. Mayan Uptown, one of the farm that a Mayan Uptown…
- 0:30And he happened to be a chavrusah of my great-grandfather in Sochaczew. The two of them…
- 1:00he gives a an amazing segulah that he commits himself to pray every day for anyone…
- 2:02segulah that you might learn other sefarim. Now, I want to share with you a cheilek…
- 2:32In this Haggadah, it's brought the question of Rav Chaim Brisker. Rav Chaim wants to know,…
- 3:35Rav Schlesinger in Monsey said it over from the Berachas HaTzaddik this week. So whoever got…
- 4:06So Tzaddik HaRanana brings a question from Yemin Yosef. That what do you mean he was…
- 4:36mechilah when you get married? Well, he married Vashti before he became the king. But he…
- 5:37Tzaddik HaRanana brings in his sefer, in his kuntres Higidah Esther. And there are a lot…
- 6:09opening with a bad joke, you know? So they they're it's it's like a hora'ah what…
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