Instead of Giving Up Remember the Exodus

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

the story of Passover begins with Moses walking in the desert and seeing a burning bush but somehow the bush is not consumed by the fire Moses is drawn to the bush and God then gives him the mission of taking the Jews out of Egypt why the burning bush why is Moses his mission to bring out the Jewish people connected to a bush on fire but not getting consumed I want to share a story with you about Glenn Cunningham Glenn was born in Kansas in 1909 when he was six years old he and his nine-year-old brother Floyd were his nine-year-old brother Floyd were given the job during the winter months to light the fires in the school stoves so the rooms would be warm by the time the teacher and the other students arrived one very cold morning in February 1916 the two boys loaded up the large stove with wood and then soaked the logs with kerosene as they always did but that morning something went terribly wrong Floyd struck the match he dropped it in the stove and there was an explosion of fire that engulfed Floyd in a sheet of flames someone had mistakenly filled the kerosene container with gasoline Floyd kerosene container with gasoline Floyd died from his terrible burns and the doctors told their mother that Glenn would likely not survive due to the devastating burns on the lower half of his body but to the amazement of his dr. Glenn survived but the fire had destroyed his motor ability his thin legs just dangled there lifeless Glenn was confined to a wheelchair with no use of his lower limbs his mother refused to let the doctors amputate Glenn refused to accept the verdict that he would be a he was determined to walk every day his

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1. 0:00the story of Passover begins with Moses walking in the desert and seeing a burning bush…
2. 0:31his nine-year-old brother Floyd were given the job during the winter months to light the fires…
3. 1:03kerosene container with gasoline Floyd died from his terrible burns and the doctors told their mother…
4. 1:34was determined to walk every day his mother and his father would massage his little legs…
5. 2:05until he developed the ability to stand and then to walk and to run with cheer…
6. 2:39world's fastest mile like Glen's doctors Moses looked at the Jewish people and saw how badly…
7. 3:10Passover is to never give up on anyone no matter what never give up on an…
8. 3:41up on the Almighty because he believes in you Happy Passover…

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