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Do You Believe in the Blessing of a Tzaddik?

Rabbi Chaim Mintz

Rabbi Chaim Mintz discusses the blessing of a tzaddik in a weekly Torah lecture.

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so welcome everybody i'm sure and i hope everybody had an inspiring uplifting yum tiff akovas dancing with the torah and to keep us going for quite a while listen hanukkah we're told that uh just like when we eat a good meal breakfast it lasts us to lunch we start getting hungry at lunch we get a good lunch we're full by the time it comes to we're full by the time it comes to supper get hungry again get a good meal satisfied by breakfast we're hungry again the same way when it comes to the holidays that god gave us every holiday for us to saturate ourselves with kedusha with holiness with purity uplifting experience and that has celeste us until the next holiday by the time the next holiday comes we start getting hungry again we need some vitamins vitamins spiritual vitamins to wake us up again and so foreign we fill us us up with spirituality and we want it to last to keep it going until the next holiday comes so right now we're really full of spiritual feelings and ideas and uh we try to keep it as much as we can so before we start our so before we start our regular schmooze as usual we learned some laws first and i'd like to discuss tonight the lost philosopher i don't think we ever talked about before laws pertaining to the traveler it's a special prayer that when we travel a intercity not in the city itself but one city to the next a special prayer is supposed to be said called philos

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  1. 0:00so welcome everybody i'm sure and i hope everybody had an inspiring uplifting yum tiff akovas
  2. 6:12three miles so between two and a half three miles that would be the amount of
  3. 12:44and you can marry rocco too so he did so so now he's married to rocco
  4. 19:01who had two wives one wife was called panina and one guy was called khanna penang
  5. 25:09i didn't drink any wine i'm just pouring out my soul to hashem i'm just so
  6. 31:25so we have this definite possibility for a great person to promise to give a blessing
  7. 37:35and she had children rifka was many years but finally she had a child and we
  8. 43:52of course a person who does not have any children is considered like you're dead so
  9. 50:02but we say that that the actions that we do that's what makes the person that's
  10. 56:14off don't be afraid this is the son you had joseph now you have been yamin

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