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In Tribute to Mrs. Lily Safra: Chukat Balak - Write Your Story | Rabbi Shlomo Farhi

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Rabbi Shlomo Farhi

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from the class. Breakfast and the class today uh is dedicated in honor of Joseph Haim Balakhana. Mazel tov on you becoming a bar mitzvah. You did an amazing job. With love, Uncle Manny. Also, learning for this week is dedicated by the Torah Center Silver Donors, Grace and Jack Dayan, in loving memory of Jack's mother, Rachel bat Miriam alav hashalom. Uh the week of breakfast and the class is also dedicated lilui nishmat Muafak Masliyah ben Naima alav hashalom by the Darwish family for the the aliyah shmat ben Haim ben Freda, and uh continued aliyah shmat ben Freda alav hashalom. Um and the week of breakfast and the class is also dedicated lilui nishmat Rachel bat Miriam, uh Jack's mother, from Jack and Grace Dayan. Uh today we have a very special uh class and lecture. Huh? It's on. It's on. Hello. No, it's off. Um I don't know why. So, but it's it's plugged in over here. So, maybe that got that the plug came out maybe that got that the plug came out again? Um it was actually working for a second there. So, um today we have a very special lecture and a class lilui nishmat and in loving memory of Mrs. Lily Safra alav hashalom lilui nishmat Leah bat Hana for her fourth askara, which is actually today. Uh her philanthropy has reached and continues to reach so many throughout the entire world, and of course we've done many of the classes uh throughout the week uh have been done uh lilui nishmata.

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  1. 0:00from the class. Breakfast and the class today uh is dedicated in honor of Joseph Haim
  2. 3:05whose name was all Aaron named after him why because these parents felt that if not
  3. 6:06righteous. But he doesn't want to live it. The Sforno actually expands this idea. He says
  4. 9:09kids. You can't run after the pleasures of the flesh. You can't run after um honor
  5. 12:15kitchen to be eating that food." Who thinks like that? There are some people who are
  6. 15:20Edmond and Lily set up many, many, many of the brightest minds in Israel to go
  7. 18:25put the next plane will come in a few hours. The rabbi looks around. He realizes
  8. 21:31The boy had been so far removed that even when his father died, he didn't say
  9. 24:35shamayim to be able to help you, I'll do my best." This girl winds up having
  10. 27:45I'd like to ask Leah bas Chana to go and like we just heard, knock on

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