The Gaon's Last Words | Rabbi Uren Reich

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

Let's go back in time to Vilna in Lithuania, the beginning of tough cough nun ches, 1797. It's the fifth day of sukkas and the Vilna Gaon say tzadik livracha, one of the most famous greatest luminaries of our world in the last 500 years was on his deathbed. And those surrounding him knew that these are the precious last minutes of the Vilna Gaon on this world. the Vilna Gaon on this world. And to the surprise of everybody, the Vilna Gaon took his tzitzis in his hand and lovingly caressed them and started crying. He said these tzitzis are so precious. In this world one can buy them with a zeksa. A zeksa was a small coin. With a small coin, with a minimal of expenditure, with hardly any effort, one can do a mitzvah like tzitzis. In the world to come, the Vilna Gaon said, "Nothing in the world

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