The Blessing of Contentment

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

tonight's sure is the blessing of contentment and i'm going to start with a story that i heard from my esteemed rebbe melissa vashido who is son after son seventh generation after son of rebecca okay rebecca was a student of the balshemptov and he was a pious and righteous sadiq and it reputed we have a tradition that ramirez never sinned in his life he never violated torah in his life and all his life long he made shiva for biting his mother when he nursed and this is what did when he was at when he stopped nursing at a year old this was what he remembered this was his worst sin and that his mother had jumped and he couldn't forgive himself for that because for something he did when he was a baby at one year old okay that's red michelin every walking hour was devoted to torah study it was devoted to loving kindness was devoted to helping people every living hour okay but ramich had one problem he was so poor he was so poor his his coat what we call in the idisha reckle his coat had more patches than it did material and his shoes when he walked the souls would clap and he was just very very poor and it just so tattered one day one of his students gathered up enough nerve to ask him he said uh rabbit aren't uh is anyone allowed to take hashem's name in vain he says heaven forbid heaven forbid it's the

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