Night of Light -- Shloshim for Pittsburgh Slain Jews

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the yeshiva dotnet good evening everybody thank you so much for by Oliver thank you to all of the organization's the synagogue's the community center is the JCC here and all of you gracing us here this evening for such an important profound and vital event of hope of light of unity of camaraderie a night when we remember when we reflect when we grieve for an unspeakable crime and senseless act of hatred and bloodshed and unite and resolve to create a world far brighter and more luminescence one of the secret weapons of the Jewish people from millennia has been humor this is not a coincidence the name of the first Jewish boy the first person to be born a Jew you know what his name was Yitzhak Isaac and you know what you took means laughter why did Abraham and Sarah decide to name the first Jewish child ever born laughter or a joke I wonder what a therapist would have thought when the first Jewish boy would come in and say my parents named me a joke that's a great boost for self confidence and self esteem but I think that there was a tremendous message in that in a subconscious way or maybe in a conscious way the first Jewish parents were bequeathing a message to their child remember Isaac Hitchcock would be the one [Music] maybe we speak without a mic that work I could speak loud yes [Music] remember that hit suck Isaac was the first Jewish child he was born after everybody gave up Sarah his mother suffered from infertility he was not supposed to be born the first Jewish parents were supposed to die childless but then they had their first child Isaac almost signifying that Jewish continuity should never be taken for granted already with the first generation it was not simple and then

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