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[Music] so [Music] good evening tonight's class is dedicated by his family in the loving memory of rab menachem prager in tribute to his 30th yard site on the twenty first day of thomas rab nakam prager of blessed memory was born in 1922 in the famous city of brisk in lithuania his father of yitzhak as well as his grandfather his great grandfather was the sheikh the ritual slaughterer of brisk and was very close to the legendary brisker of revelation salvatrike and at the suggestion of the briskerov sent his son nakam to study in lubavitch in the la bavitch uchiva which was located in the city of atvotsk a suburb of warsaw in poland it's interesting that because of the suggestion of the brisker of young nochem was actually saved his parents as most of his family were exterminated with the entire community of brisk by the germans in but he was learning in atwatsk so he escaped with many yeshiva students to vilna and from vilna he managed to make it to japan from japan to shanghai to shanghai in china he was one of the goyle shanghai and then after the war in 1946 settled in new york he became a hosted and very connected to the labacher rebbe and was a well-known activist and a big balcas and a very kind and caring person so tonight's class is dedicated by his family and his loving memory it's also dedicated by our dear friends david schattenstein and the loving memory of alter shula basra savitzhak and hindu swordlove and lahavdilbin in honor of their daughter yet altashullah known as aliyah schottenstein tonight we're going to explore a difficult issue the mystery of death based on a eulogy that was presented a few hundred years ago by the arizona rabbi isaac luria rabbit luria at the funeral of his master the ramakra by moshe cordovero
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- 6:15book on jewish ethics and mysticism gracious himself the famous the greatest capitalist in jewish history…
- 12:06instances the torah instructs us to hang his corpse on a trivis elisa issa his corpse…
- 18:09people died only because of the snake their death has nothing to do with their shortcomings…
- 24:03that's the snake when you mention the tree itself was not involved in sin the tree…
- 29:55person so there's a concept of illness of deterioration and death but then there are four…
- 35:51were willing as remy colbert describes it two be bribed by money a huge amount of…
- 41:41who is really responsible for what happened who is the one who really allowed it to…
- 47:29an environment that has noxious fumes it will affect you living in this world is living…
- 53:19epinemius anephesh the kami this is the teachings of kabbalah the teachings of hasidis which came…
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