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By the Rivers of Babylon: Psalms 136-138

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Rabbi Lazer Brody

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am my [Music] lord it's from you my [Music] lord it's all good my [Music] Lord with hashem's loving grace tonight am mo low number 184 we're up to Psalm 136 137 138 tonight L is entitled by the Rivers of Babylon where King David predicts in his holy spirit a spirit of Prophecy even before the Holy Temple is built that it's going to be destroyed not once but twice and will be an exile and this Exile lasts until today we're still in Exile we're praying for the rebuild Holy Temple in preparation for today's lesson I did something that I didn't have the privilege of since we began the book of Psalms by the way hopefully bem after tonight's lesson we have four four more lessons and if according to plan we'll make this Monumental uh achievement of complete the whole book of Psalms learning it in spoken English and batem should help us that uh very soon afterward our our book The Book of Psalms spoken English come out okay but meanwhile uh we're learning David's 150 Psalms Hashem helped me make it to Jerusalem today the Psalms we're learning tonight I said on the holy grave site of King David today and when I go to Jerusalem when I go to the holy places wherever I go I take the whole group with us it's a you're in my heart but they prayed for every one of us and uh bashem mentioned that flashed over message on our WhatsApp group if you'd like to join amuna our WhatsApp group that's fine Ono's group leaders of people from all over the world that care about amuna not just for themselves but bringing other people close to hasem also okay so we're learning now Psalm 136 Psalm 1 36 is repetitive but what

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