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This Story Woke Me Up!

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Rabbi Yaakov Klein

Rav Avraham Gislason shares how Rebbe Nachman's tale of The Lost Princess impacted his neshama.

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so many of you know but maybe some of you don't that i also used to be a a fierce miss nugget i also used to be very very uh against hasidis i was not into it at all and and and certain points of my life i was i was anti and um and i used to learn in yeshiva and kylo and i was very you know into that world and i loved it no complaints right but um there's a few things that uh that really woke me up to to to a different way of thinking one of them was like this there was a certain breslifer in the city who would go around and he would give books away it was nanak right that he would bring different books and then you know and dance with me a little bit like kedarka baked right that's that's what they do and one time he brought me a book an english book the stories of rabbi nachman

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  3. 1:02and so as i said i used to always every single night read a story to…
  4. 1:32what is this is a hasidic story like i i had no clue what i was…
  5. 2:03read what just happened i literally felt like something had changed within me completely and i…

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