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NEVER GIVE UP HOPE — The Power of Yearning | Parshas Vayeshev & Chanukah Inspiration

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Rabbi Ori Strum

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Okay. All right. Welcome back to another partial preview. Thanks. Thanks for coming out here. Um, okay. So, my brother who came the past couple weeks, Rafie, he texted me before. Actually, wasn't a text, it was a WhatsApp. Same idea. He said, "Really, really want want to come, but he had to have he had to stay home tonight." And I said, "All good. No worries. There's never like a pressure." And I said, "You mamish, like that's what I'm talking about. Like you got the topic. got the topic. He really wanted to come." And we'll see as we learn through the partial bit like it like Yiddish kite really comes down to the want. It really does. I had I'm always looking for like stories Michelle and anecdotes and just today I was thinking it just came to me. I'm like and I'm sure in a week I'll have another one that will be like the mushel. But I'm like trying to think like you know you have a mush with a king and and and you have a mush with a king and and and a palace and a queen. There's always Mich. But I was thinking you know what a really good mushel is for a Yiddish guy. It's faful and schwarma restaurants. Specifically the Israeli ones where you're saying you're you're you're standing up there and Yes. Yeah. Like a lafa on a pitha. Is that can you get a laugh and a pita? >> No. Those are two different right. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. You get a lafa with the schwarma and like then the guy who's a real trained Israeli schwarma man. He starts asking a

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  1. 0:10Okay. All right. Welcome back to another partial preview. Thanks. Thanks for coming out here. Um,
  2. 3:15parish corresponding to the ma to the eight days of a bris there's one other book
  3. 6:50right and right it's it's there's always something there's you never quite made it. you're always
  4. 9:57right because we know that shavas comes we're going to lose it now we begin to
  5. 13:32they kept out. Then it becomes stale, right? Then it becomes dormant in whatever relationship with
  6. 16:38that's the natural world saying connect with me 8 is very 8 begins with the ability
  7. 20:16person can't give up on himself because a person doesn't own himself right we're we're given
  8. 23:24person is that a person can never there's there's no you can't give up hope because
  9. 27:01Thought it was incredible. Hashkah this year, this past week was which mark right the alterba
  10. 30:05Yeah, you could be something because you could perpetually know it more. It's always I just

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