A Rosh Hashanah shiur on the concept of being judged by Hashem.
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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Duvi Bensoussan’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.
[Music] i'd like to start with a story took place about 30 years ago in the holy land of eretz israel a very wealthy businessman very close-knit group of friends and one particular day he calls up his group and he says guys tonight is very special to me tonight i'm throwing this i want you guys to come over tonight i'm going to tell you my story now his friends you know at first they thought he was joking around they know him for many years somebody makes it sounds like that something happened recently but yet they knew nothing see he really picked their curiosity and they all come out that night to his house and they see he puts out this lavishing spread sit around the table and they look at him know what's we know you for years and he says i'll tell you there's something about my pissed you don't know and in truth i've been making sudat for many years but i never told you but tonight i want to make it in public tonight i want you to hear my story so you piqued their interest your curiosity was rolling go ahead tell us what's going on he says i grew up in the lower east side before i came to israel i wasn't religious my mom and i right after world war ii i lost my father my mother and i well you know how difficult it was in those days to make a living we weren't religious no shabbat no yeshiva nothing and all i had was just my mom and the rent and a burden to help out some way
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