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rabbi um the books you gave us during earlier and i'm reading it it's about coincidences yeah and i'll tell you the truth i'm very disturbed with that because when i read it it seems that a coincidence or or an angel and it saved people's lives and now if i can just bear you know just bear with me for a couple of minutes i'll tell you how i was affected by it tell you how i was affected by it we're married well over 50 years i had grown up in arizona and tucson when i came back i went to my first past pesach with my wife's family and my father had this book by hertz i i was allowed to look at it but i couldn't take it home and i wanted that book because one sentence in the in hertz book he has two books one sentence called for he has two books one sentence called for three paragraphs and i wanted that as it turned out my father-in-law uh went to israel within that year and i felt i wanted it and i worked in the post office and i had jackets and tie i worked in a in an office one day for some ex unexplained reason everyone in in the accounting department was sent downstairs to the males how dare they send me down to the males you know i thought that was important at any rate
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- 0:00rabbi um the books you gave us during earlier and i'm reading it it's about coincidences…
- 0:30tell you how i was affected by it we're married well over 50 years i had…
- 1:01he has two books one sentence called for three paragraphs and i wanted that as it…
- 1:32i thought that was important at any rate i go down there and you got a…
- 2:02two books and i'd like to get rid of them you would yeah i said all…
- 2:33so what are you disturbed about what's disturbing you you say the disturbance the book that…
- 3:08i think the book is talking about don't think it's coincidence it's it's god's hand yeah…
- 3:40wanted it yeah so you're god's child you give you the book also you're just childish…
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