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i'm still digesting the laws that cloud israel lost this morning when we lost foreign i'm not in the mindset to be able to really think of what to say at this moment i'm still in the process of because when you get hit with such a devastating loss a loss that literally shook a loss that literally shook the entire american jewelry he reached people all over the world it's something that you got to stop and think i don't think we appreciated what we had until we no longer had and now the stories are going to start coming out now we're going to start to understand what claudia israel had in rep sahara wallace in zechariah i just want to say one comment though and then we'll pick this up on a future date when we're able to digest a little bit more what it is that we had let alone what we lost you know a little over a month ago we lost the gadolador the great rohingyas part of the devastation of that loss was not only the smeara of the torah that he was chaumer the entire cloud that he was chaumer the entire cloud israel and it's very evident the moment we lost him how many tragedies how much how many attacks in israel alone that took place right right after we lost from and all over the world the jewish people have not had an easy time after the loss of our great gadol but there's another point and that is that when we lost from kanyevsky
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