Rabbi Mendel Kessin discusses the hilula of Rachel Imeinu and shares a personal story.
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i was going to tell you a very fascinating um incident that happened to me which is part of the parasha of rafael if you would want to hear it it's up to you okay you want to hear it okay um in at the end of 1994 my niece in israel was getting married my niece in israel was getting married in february of 1995 and of course my wife wanted to go to the wedding but i was not really interested i just didn't feel that i wanted to go at that point in time you see because it means going from of course brooklyn to uh to eric's trail and i didn't think that time was right anyway so what my wife did which was very interesting is she got a safe of the baba sally is she got a safe of the baba sally okay and we all know who the bhava sally is right yeah yeah israel he was an incredible person but he was he was a tremendous bomb muy face which means he was a miracle worker anyway so she got the safe and she said to me why don't you take a look at some of this it was a safe about his acts you know incidents and what he did and he did it you know in terms of uh the people he helped out and so on you know so anyway so i started i looked at it i started
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