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Parsha Shoftim: Suit Up, Elul Soldier! - Rabbi Yehoshua Nissan

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Rabbi Yehoshua Nissan

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all right i'm gonna mute everyone and feel free to unmute yourself as you see fit all right welcome back everyone welcome back to me this is just awesome this is the greatest group of people in the world so it's always so so nice to reconnect and get us back together and what a time to reconnect as we are right here time to reconnect as we are right here just days away thursday friday begins the incredible month of ello there's no there's no good description for ello we're going to try and tie together the parsha and ello with the nesiva solomon is holy awesome words i tell you awesome awesome what he's going to tell us today but we got to start off by reminding ourselves that ello is just the awesomest time to that ello is just the awesomest time to be a jew so if you find yourself standing in low you found yourself in a very incredible time what is lol is is is the land of opportunity where hashem throws open doors and says let's reconnect let's reunite let's make this happen it's meant to be done with joy with simcha as the great miles biederman says and it's said almost in in jest it's humorous but it's it's got a true it's humorous but it's it's got a true point to it he says what do the letters of elo al-iflam and vlamid stand for so we all know what they the the famous things they stand for anil divided i am to my beloved my beloved is to me unbelievable statement alone but he says it stands for in yiddish you know what that means it means lively like with joy with excitement and with even more excitement that's

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  1. 0:02all right i'm gonna mute everyone and feel free to unmute yourself as you see fit
  2. 5:11dream about can happen because hashem is blazing a path straight through the forest all the
  3. 10:56nature temptation drives appetite an angel even as a yatahara is even he is the true
  4. 16:45val borge i don't know if i'm doing that justice the emery name of albert said
  5. 22:24i'm not trying to be dismissive of our feelings because our feelings are real they're part
  6. 27:56ourselves sitting on the couch we forgot that we're soldiers we got to quickly get back
  7. 33:14get out of that problem go back to coasting he says what the terror is telling
  8. 38:55every moment of that is why we're here who wants to waste a moment like that
  9. 44:41know you can do because no matter where you are or what struggles you have or
  10. 50:29physicality temptations the world distractions emotions it's tough but it ain't nothing compared to an omnipresent

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