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Go from from the curse to the blessing, from the pain to the to the breakthrough, to the love, to the fire. And I was thinking that we always remember the destruction of the Bet Hamikdash even in in our happiest moment. Under the chuppah, be that the sham you'll be be under the chuppah at the right time with the right person. Under the chuppah, so we smash the glass, so we always have this little bit of brokenness we carry around with us. But the sages teach that even in our deepest, darkest, most painful place, we deepest, darkest, most painful place, we always have a little bit of light, a little bit of connection that is never ever taken away from us. And and that's what we need to be tapping into. And really we started with the oy, oy, oy. And the greater the oy, the greater the pain, shows the greater the love, and therefore the greater the breakthrough when we come out on the other side. Famous story of Naftali of Ropshitz, he had a young grandchild and they went to had a young grandchild and they went to the mikveh in the icy river. And he got into the icy river and he screamed to the oy, ah, oy, ow, ow. And then he got out the river and they covered him in a in a towel and he was like, ah. And Rav Naftali Shitz said to him, I just want you to know in life sometimes when you're connected, when you're doing the right thing, at the beginning it might feel like oy, but it ends up as ah. But in life, sometimes when you're doing the wrong thing, it starts as ah, but it ends up
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- 3:06He'asor Karov." That we should yearn and seek out Hashem when he can be found and…
- 4:37Actually, Rabbi Nachman, I don't know how long I have to speak now. The Rabbi Nachman…
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