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66: The Power of Sweetness

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Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky

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Lederman, Yitzchok Litvinchik, Adam Markowitz, Jason Moore, Sholom Silvermintz, Ruven Schnitzer, and David Zisu. L'ilui nishmas Rabbi Leib Shmuel ben Dovid, who is Rabbi Leib Yeger, who was beloved by hundreds of talmidim and whose lives he impacted in an extremely profound way. He wore his simchas simchas hachaim on his face constantly, and his keen intellect and positive outlook were instantly recognizable by everyone he met. recognizable by everyone he met. His vibrant personality and boundless energy for Torah and gemilus chassodim were a constant inspiration to those around him. Rabbi Yeger was a special neshama who passed away on Rosh Hashanah. Um this really has a very personal touch for me. I had the zchus of knowing Rabbi Yeger. We taught together. Um he also grew up on Long Island and went to HANC. Um we shared Um we shared uh a rebbe, Rabbi Weil. And he was so warm and so caring. Um uh in his last years, he was the mashgiach um in the Jerusalem Gardens Hotel. And uh we would sometimes go and just visit with him and just schmooze with him. And uh the stories he used to tell us about kashrus in Eretz Yisrael and and what has to be done in order to maintain those standards. Um maintain those standards. Um it was just he just had so much yiras Shamayim. Um and as it says, he had such a smile on his face and he had such love for people. And especially his talmidim and I remember when we used to teach together, he would go 100 miles out of his way for any talmid. And that was just he was just such an incredible person and uh I once heard Reb Bowman say about uh

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  1. 0:34Lederman, Yitzchok Litvinchik, Adam Markowitz, Jason Moore, Sholom Silvermintz, Ruven Schnitzer, and David Zisu. L'ilui nishmas
  2. 3:06You know, I guess I guess we could tie this in with this parsha of Toldos.
  3. 5:39The two of them were great because it never left from their table. Lettuce or radishes
  4. 8:45People are born and people die. That certainly was last week's parsha Chayei Sarah. Starts with
  5. 11:24alive. Yitzhak was blind. He was a living carbon. He was so out of this world.
  6. 14:27"You see from the story of Yitzchak, you get a better bracha when you give people
  7. 16:59'I ate. Did I not have cake? Go have a cake. Have a coffee. Go have
  8. 19:32pit, like a date. The fruit that is seen as having the most seichelus and the
  9. 22:37He tasted everything in those tastes. There's only one other case where we find that. That's
  10. 25:14New York hundreds of types of apples. There are some apples he said that are so

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