A lesson on the importance of avoiding judgment.
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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Duvi Bensoussan’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.
we're going to start i already made a bit of moments ago so um i'm hoping we've said many times that tuesday nights is the schmooze thursday night is to share so tonight is the schmooze and i'll tell you the truth i come tonight bearing gifts incredible gifts and i'm hoping that tonight's schmooze will really give us a whole new look on how powerful this month really is i want to tell you over an incredible story that i heard from none other than maran told you a story it was animated learned yom valaila every moment every breath he had was dedicated to learning so if he broke for a moment to tell you a story it's because he cherished that story and when he told you over the story he did it so animated he put such emotion into the story on the drama portions of the story he actually cried it's something to hear how a gandalf it's something to hear how a gandalf tells over a story gentlemen open your hearts tonight i want to tell you a story that was told by none other than yourself so there was a great rabbi he lived i would say a few hundred years ago he was one of the great rabbis of his generation and one evening he wanted to know who he wanted to know who will sit next to him in olam now if you think of this for a moment he gave his life away for torah he gave his life away for learning he sat in yeshiva yom valaila he lived with pat vamela he literally lived on bread and water sacrificing all the luxuries of the world just to become the torah giant that he became and he wanted to know who else in his generation
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