A Torah talk on the Chatam Sofer's insights into mazal and personal growth.
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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Duvi Bensoussan’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.
i just came from an arayat an amazing event about the life of hamra he was from the hedrabanin of damascus of shan and when you listen to the rabbis one after the next and especially the richonseyan who telling the people what they lost in a leader this concept to me this topic to me is fascinating what it means to carry the entire sea boar on a man's shoulders on a giant's shoulders and every now and then throughout history there are always these incredible giant people that shine through cloudy sir and carry on their shoulders an entire civil war a city a country a nation i'm fascinated by this topic how they were so selfless how they gave everything for the civil war from beginning to end it's amazing the concept's an amazing concept i spoke to myself i just want to hear for a moment like to share with you a uh a fantastic story and i think this will open up our topic the year was 1973. it was right in the middle of the yom kippur war it was the middle of the night two o'clock in the morning it was banging on the door albeit what could be so important that you're literally banging on the doors pulling the rabbi out of bed it was mr total he was the president one of the community leaders of shen at that time 1973. he was banging on the door rabbi wake up comes running to the door what's the matter why are you waking me up middle of the night he says you have to come quickly it's
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