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R' Menachem Nissel on the Beauty of Tears

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Chazaq Organization

A lecture on the spiritual significance of tears and prayer by Rabbi Menachem Nissel.

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I do believe that it must be 10 years that I've been giving the share and every year I come here and I'm still um filled first of all with the with the awe of the tragedy that happened all the way back that began this minhag when we remember Y and um we are at dting this as well for everything they do for being one of the Premier organizations for disseminating Terror throughout the whole world what can I tell you I chose a subject that this year is the year that my father passed away and it made me think about the subject of tears and to study the concept of Tears on a whole new different level which I'm going to explain tonight we're going to learn together this extraordinary par this extraordinary subject of why Hashem created this phenomena called tearing for me personally one of my first memories of tearing is an incident that happened to me in my high school in London I teach in the hasian excuse me I actually taught her as well but I went to a high school called hasman in Northwest London and something crazy happened what happens one of my friends his name was Ellis I'm not going to say his second name because I do believe he now lives in New York but Ellis did not like his French Classes he actually hated them we all actually hated them but he decided to do something about it and when a big French test came along he decided enough was enough and this was the 70s in London and he called a from a phone booth now I just have to go slowly over here because I see there are people here who are under 50 and they may not know

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