A Genius Born From Kindness - R Meir Simcha Sperling

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[Music] Shalom to the entire Nitsar family and welcome with Hashem's help. I want to talk about the power of words. We always speak about the power of words. It can build, it can destroy. How much power do words really have? One day as a small child, Thomas Edison came home from school and he gave an envelope to his mother and he said, "My teacher gave me this letter to give to you and he said, "Make sure only your mother reads this." So here's the mother reads this." So here's the letter. His mother opens up the envelope, takes out the letter from the teacher and looks at it, and her eyes welled up with tears. And she began to read it out loud to her child. And she read, "Your son is a genius. He's just too smart. This school is too small for him and we do not have good enough teachers to train him. Please keep him at home and teach him yourself. End of story. End of letter. That's what the mother read. Many years later, after Edison's mother died, we all know that

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1. 0:01[Music] Shalom to the entire Nitsar family and welcome with Hashem's help. I want to talk…
2. 0:31mother reads this." So here's the letter. His mother opens up the envelope, takes out the…
3. 1:01Edison's mother died, we all know that he became one of the smartest and greatest inventors…
4. 1:32He read this he became so emotional when he wrote in his diary which is recorded.…
5. 2:04remember those words, I am a nobody. A positive word of encouragement, a compliment, something nice…

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