A talk on the significance and blessings of the month of Elul.
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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Shay Tahan’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.
thank you robbie kazak unbelievable what they do great work thank you for giving us this it would be uh part of the school to come give a class over here in the beautiful days of uh together and to approach when he was a little boy when he was a little boy during the month of elul they had a family event the family samha he was back and forth should i go should i not go elul i don't want to leave yeshiva family back and forth and then he decided you know what i really have to go i'll go quick and he decides that he's going to go to the family simcha he goes to the family simcha and on the way he sees something unbelievable scary she's a little boy with the stick in his hand and he's hitting an elderly person and he's hitting an elderly person hitting an elderly person you don't have any boucha so he goes to the little boy a gentile and he says to him what are you doing you're hitting this older man like what happened to you have rahman have mercy have compassion on him so this little boy tells the rabbi to be he tells him do you know who this man is the guy says this man is his father
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- 0:00thank you robbie kazak unbelievable what they do great work thank you for giving us this…
- 3:34in front of a house there's an entrance in front of a hall there's an entrance…
- 7:36and what we have to realize is now is the time to plant not the time…
- 11:47in elul is we have to be doing deep soul searching we have to be finding…
- 15:22we're not expected to change in a second but to realize that we want to change…
- 19:32to look and dig deep and see who we are and really who we want to…
- 23:41it used to be clear to adam where the is that i used to be outside…
- 27:17who does he belong to does he have it clear it's the mesh the dalid that…
- 31:30and we're able to get closer to borehole and have it clear hashem echad you have…
- 35:35and that's why he's eating so much and then they realized now we understand why mushrik…
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