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The Mission of Our Messianic Generation

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Rabbi Yaakov Klein

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Okay, dearest friends. Dearest, dearest friends. It's been a long journey. There have been a lot of Thursday nights. We started back in the old building of 379. Different covers came and went Different covers came and went across the years. We had many different things that we were doing. At different times we were originally just going stam through different parts of Shabbos. And then we got to be koiyach and we spent a long time with Reb Berel Sasson. Those shiurim were in uh Dain Aronstroy, right? We moved upstairs to Dain Aronstroy for a while. And then then we spent more time with Reb Kluger. And then the Berditchever and it's been a it's been a really beautiful journey that I've been really consistently for 4 years. Every Thursday night. Trying to bring chevre together who want to learn, who want to sing. And it's a it's a niche thing because the kind of learning that we're doing is it's for a very particular kind of person. And very particular kinds of people. And very particular kinds of people. And it's the nature of what I do that just I'm privileged enough to have the opportunity to hang with those kinds of people. And there's a uniting factor when you look around the room of the kind of hevra who feel moved on a Thursday night to come out and to do this kind of learning. You need to understand that there's an ashama to Yiddishkeit. There's an ashama to Shabbos. There's always more that we can access. There's always deeper that we can go, and that's really what we've been trying to accomplish over the years. And I see out of the shamaya, I feel like a lot has been accomplished. And soul by soul

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  1. 0:16Okay, dearest friends. Dearest, dearest friends. It's been a long journey. There have been a lot
  2. 6:23lots of different capacities and I hope that Be'ezrat Hashem in in due time everybody here
  3. 12:28things happen, make things happen. And and and a core message I think that I've tried
  4. 18:35for what we want inside of us. Like the pasuk says, ner mitzvah v'Torah or The
  5. 24:46And like we've said millions of times, what it means to be a Yid is to
  6. 30:56Sometimes I'll need more community. To be a part of the cloud. Sometimes I need more
  7. 37:18to find that balance of El Mul Panim Aneru. There are some people who have a
  8. 43:25that I I really hope that we could really really lean into. Build our relationship with
  9. 49:40point where we've tried everything and like Hanan ben Ari sings, Barachti mimcha elai. And I
  10. 55:52Harris so much it's able to spread. Then we're getting closer to where we need to

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