A pre-Yom Kippur hachanah shiur from Rabbi Yaakov Klein.
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so I was hoping a little bit there' be a shender because I plan to read a few things to you um we don't have that much time together going to try to make the most of it with hashem's help there's so much to be said people make the mistake of thinking that Arab Yumer is special because it's the day before Yumer you know so it's it's AR a very important day and they're they're mistaken because the sikim tell us that even forget Yumer for a second AR Yumer in and of itself and as much as there's school and it's sort of like a a somewhat of a regular mundane day AR Kipper is an extraordinarily special day in and of itself like these moments that we're in is not just preparing for tomorrow these moments are exalted moments that sikim teach that you can't just like run into Yer you can't rise into into this day without climbing some kind of ladder that brings you from the regular experience of the mundane into this exalted universe that's called yum Kipper it's not a regular day it's a different thing we're going to learn about that now arum Kipper is the ladder arum Kipper is the bridge right now we're sort of in transition we've left we've taken off we're we're not in the regular experience of this worldliness or of our own nishas we're we're flying we're floating we're we're rising up into a new reality into the reality of Yumer that world so I want to take stock of the moments that we have I'm just again just going to read a few things to you it's it's not a day for me to pontificate and
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- 0:01so I was hoping a little bit there' be a shender because I plan to read…
- 3:18printed at the back of this it's called what I'm reading you now is the final…
- 6:32mouth and I got from this that at least somebody's listening to me the world itself…
- 9:39world dreaming brighter dreams of a brighter future for a very very dark and broken and…
- 13:01we just want that we should feel okay because we feel hurt by the world we…
- 16:46vicious cycle for another deadly minute and then her great blue eyes and their astonishment filled…
- 19:59there is no other choice we'll make mistakes faes and flowers and mothers and children are…
- 23:16into this into this Yun of of God's hug that's what a Suka is a hug…
- 26:31all of your this worldly desires and spend time alone really alone he says if you…
- 29:40want to really be a yid the heart on fire he says to Hashem this will…
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