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Can Destiny Be Changed? The Story of Menashe - Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz

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Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz

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kind of the history right before the bias reon and we've already talked about the 10 tribes being exiled more than 100 years earlier and then this was during the reign of Kuskio Hamel we talked about the righteousness of Kusio and the great miracle that uh the Assyrian Empire after exiling the 10 tribes wanted to then conquer and be Makushim and the Mikdash and one of the great miracles was the first night of great miracles was the first night of Pesak that 180,000 soldiers of Sanov just died. Now San himself did not die. He returned to Assyria in disgrace, but he was then assassinated by his own children. So whatever it was, Assyria still remained a force until Babylonia conquered them, but they were no longer focused on conquering us. Now we had mentioned the Gumaran bra it's well the the book of malikim tells us that was the book of malikim tells us that was very very sick and he almost died and he turned his face towards the wall he was miss pal and gave him a rafua and added 15 years to his life the puk itself tells us that was sick but it does not tell us why he was sick the garanian braas however says that uh he was k of misa uh because he refused refused to get married and be oake in pu or vu because uh he saw with ru kakaidesh that he

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