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Kever Rachel and Its Relationship to Purim

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Torah Thinking

An exploration of the connection between Kever Rachel and the holiday of Purim.

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Okay. So, you're in Pennsylvania. The house of Rachel's children. Um, this house was purchased about 12 years ago. Before we purchased the house, we came here and there was nobody at Keer Ruckle. There was nobody on the bus. Somebody told me they were the only one on the bus. But when I went on the bus, when they wanted to cut it out, I was when they wanted to cut it out, I was the fourth person on the bus. So I handed out flyers. And in a week and a half, I had 32 people on the bus. So when the inspector came to cancel the bus, he walked up the stairs and saw 32 people. Well, that's almost a full bus. So, he collected all our tickets and that saved the bus. So, sometimes activism makes a difference. When nobody was coming here and nobody was connected, they were going, it was the beginning of Oslo Oslo and they wanted to give away Kev Ruckle or move it and my Shoul Manhattan Beach Jewish Center decided to adopt a community. That was our meeting. But in the meeting I went home and nobody did anything. So I took this on just by myself to do this and I need everybody to support the work I'm doing. So sometimes at at the beginning when we did the haknosis safer to Torah that was after the writing

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