I Was Here the Whole Time: Yom Kippur and You

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Yaakov Klein’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

give you a thumbnail of like ravian called Klein is an author lecturer and the founding director of my lecha which is which is k-based organization focused on creating opportunities for spiritual growth and experiential education in the local community and Beyond Way Beyond so through class content events trips and experiences Mr Foster an authentic Jewish experience that's deep passionate sincere joyous healthy and eminently relevant charting a course toward a vibrant life lived in the warmth of a chance and race so thank you so much for joining us we are so looking forward thank you very much for having me thank you everybody for being here as was mentioned briefly this is an incredibly busy period of time you can imagine for a person who's involved in formal and informal education this is it you know this is like we don't ease into the year Ella tishre is is where it's at um in a very Major Way and um I'm not sure if everyone if is my video like big for like can everyone see me or is there a way to yeah okay so so I'm not gonna go so long we're just gonna share a few moments together with Seattle to try to help us Focus very much as much as we can I'm preparing for the day of Yom Kippur that is upon us that crazily enough in some very deep way the preparation for a Mitzvah is in some way even more significant than the Mitzvah itself because if the Mitzvahs are all about opportunities to reveal the depth of our desire to connect to Hashem as the Hasidic Masters teach that the word Mitzvah means a commandment but that's only in Hebrew and Aramaic the word mitzvah means to connect like at 7 a group of people Savita means a connection so each

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2. 2:43so that's the body and that's precious taking time to prepare that's amidas hasidos that's something…
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9. 23:48so she packs up her things and she goes back to the house the cold dark…
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