Saving the Pecan Orchards | Rabbi Yaakov Asher Sinclair

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

[Music] this is a true story whose facts have been verified inde dependently and it happened just two weeks ago during the last week of Ben manim Eagle Pass on the TexMex border a woman farmer is gazing Towards the Sky Fighting back tears there's been no rain for almost 6 months not a drop she owns some pean Orchards and if it doesn't rain now the Orchards will die she will go bankrupt and she and her family will find themselves and her family will find themselves taking to the road suddenly a bus pulls up next to the parch Orchard and 50 Bim from the tri-state area pile out of the bus the farmer looks at them who are these Strang looking Gringos she's never seen a gringo with a baseball cap and peirs before she goes over to the leader of the group and says to him you're Jewish right yes he says we're desperate peans have grown here in Texas for 500 years my family have farmed this land for Generations but the last two years

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1. 0:00[Music] this is a true story whose facts have been verified inde dependently and it happened…
2. 0:30and her family will find themselves taking to the road suddenly a bus pulls up next…
3. 1:00for Generations but the last two years have been terrible we've prayed and prayed for rain…
4. 1:38then made a short m in English asking AEM for rain to help the lady farmer…
5. 2:09thanked them for their prayers the group got back into the bus and continued their trip…
6. 2:41being omed do what's the power of my Mitzvah sure in all it's powerful it does…
7. 3:11minimal even when we just say the words just phoning it in each one of us…

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