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Rabbi Avi Geller - The Month of Elul

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Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky

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hey we're beginning a series on the holidays today when we speak about the significance of the month of ello next week will be Russia shawna that will be him Kippur and then we'll be Sekot right so a bistro cilantro the founder of the bosom movement rights in a letter he remembers he live that close to 200 years ago he was a young boy and every day would announce you know the Shabbat before rosh chodesh they announced the new month from the synagogue and every day would announce the month of ello so people would start crying they would get hysterical here we get frightened it would start trembling right right right frightened and when he grew older you noticed that people we're not so no taken aback by the massive ll our generation right not such a big deal right could the reason be that the early generations they had a lot of sins right they had a lot to repent but we're not only problems right we're all okay could that be the reason huh I don't think so all right I think the reason is because we don't have that awareness right they had that awareness and we don't write you have to think back all the events had happened last year the roots things the bad things that people who passed away the elections everything that happened right all right it was all decreed Russia shot all right so we got to take it seriously all right one of you thrill aslam to uh a disciple his name was it's a pity burger he came from the city of st. Petersburg in Russia you know and roz Czarist Russia they used to give it that Pouncey right see the death

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  1. 0:16hey we're beginning a series on the holidays today when we speak about the significance of
  2. 3:28right and he said you can leave worked up God if I walk that right it's
  3. 6:35border guard says halt even the boy gets nervous right the other one is not nervous
  4. 9:41anyway there with you were gone right you were trembling you were scared today we don't
  5. 12:51being working for the enemy then can come you Kippur you forgive our sins right and
  6. 16:31if red head for Kara do get disqualified so what's the definition of a yoke I
  7. 19:37what he's meaning to our lives right very important principle in Judaism on the other hand
  8. 22:45nation so to speak has a box and whenever they sinned they fill up the box
  9. 25:55effort to change right now there are a lot of secular Israelis to keep your Kippur
  10. 29:06alright but who says he ft cheeseburgers on your house yeah so you keep kosher right

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