A lecture on Parashat Terumah by Rabbi Duvi Bensoussan.
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we just came from a very emotional levia our community lost a pillar a great rabbi someone who hid himself in pashtut we couldn't possibly grasp how great he is because he wouldn't let us he hid himself with such brilliance that even if you tried to grasp how great he was it would be impossible he wouldn't let you you tried to give him kavod he wouldn't let you you tried to honor him in any which way he'd run away he specifically went out of his way to keep the pashtut and make a statement while everybody else was driving around in hundred thousand dollar cars he was riding in a bicycle and he laughed at us he laughed at us he looked at us as if to say don't you remember who you are are you really falling for all this the whole smoking mirrors of america all the materialism don't you remember where you came from don't you remember what was real what life was about and he was the standing marshal that reminded us of what the old country once looked like it's amazing to me to be able to lose one man and we lost the whole world because he was that world and by losing him we lost that whole world he was the more hell for everybody you've seen in the community could you imagine he was the mohel for everybody he was the kohen by every pejona bed he was the kohen he was the mohel he was the kohen he was the shochet he was the everything he was he was literally an abba to the people
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