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[Music] Good evening from the south of Israel. This is Laser Brody with Rebi Nakman's Tales. We're starting tonight a brand new tale, The Merchant and the Popper. And this is one of Rebi Nakman's most cryptic allegorories. And in it, it cryptic allegorories. And in it, it encapsulates the entire history of our people. And it's a beautiful portrait of dedication and simplicity and purity, the national characteristics that is our potential. And we fill up our potential, then we'll bring correction to the world. Hashem will bring us uh full redemption. This also shows the cycle of exile and redemption. and we'll do our best to see what we can what we can glean out of it to bring ourselves closer to Hashem because Rabbi had an ultimate purpose. It just wasn't had an ultimate purpose. It just wasn't to tell stories but rather than giving direct uh what we call inh direct lectures ethics lectures he told us stories and cryptic stories. We have to use our mind, use our imagination and really call up the reserves of our spiritual and our intellectual prowess, our intellectual prowess that's above the intellect, but try to pro plug in to the amuna intellect, divine intellect,
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- 5:10that he saw that it was only a dream and thanks Hashem that his all belongings…
- 10:15her? And she was a god-fearing person. That is she was a very upright woman and…
- 15:24interpreted it as fillain. And this why the rabbit in 1967 May of 1967 one month…
- 20:37Ukraine they have these it's it's like called a sistern difference between a well a well…
- 26:20doing. Uh this is a correction Rabbi made. How many times is it that the the…
- 31:29he's also a middleman. uh he pleads the case of of of Israel because I said…
- 36:36the dream. They have to understand another things is teaching us something else about dreams. Whenever…
- 41:44beauty and kept bringing her riches and riches and riches. All right. So now the popper…
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