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LIFE IS TOO SHORT

1.1K views · Jan 24, 2022

Rabbi Duvi Bensoussan

A reminder to cherish life and focus on meaningful pursuits.

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life is too short and the time goes so quickly we were in yeshiva only is a few years ago we still remember our days in bet midrash and then suddenly you blink and you're already in shidduchim and you're looking for that wonderful person to spend life with then you blink a second time and you find yourself behind the uh curtain holding it to helium crying your eyeballs out on the delivery of your first child hearing that voice that cry of that baby for the first time and you wouldn't believe that that's mine and i'm the abba this time and this is my actual child and i'm going to experience what does it mean to be a parent and then you blink a second time and your child already is going to the barber for the upsharing he said where's the time going slow down let me enjoy this no you blink again and you're starting to order the tiffine for the

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  2. 0:32crying your eyeballs out on the delivery of your first child hearing that voice that cry…
  3. 1:02boys bar mitzvah and then you blink again and you're walking them down the aisle and…
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  5. 2:03already a few times over and i didn't get to anywhere i would like to have…
  6. 2:34forms on a person's face think about that the older you get the more you start…

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