Hebrew Letters; The Importance of Alef

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Aaron L Raskin’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

when my wife was about to give birth to our second child I called one of my congregants by the name of Mitch I said Mitch Thursday night can you come over and babysit my oldest son will sleep just stay here in the house he came over Thursday night he went to the hospital with a false alarm so Friday night again my wife decided now is the night to have the baby I ran over to Mitch's house however be that it was Saturday I don't turn on the lights was Saturday I don't turn on the lights or ring a doorbell I was standing in the street and I cut my mouth together I said Mitch get up Mitch get up in the middle of the night his wife gets up opens up the window she says rabbi what's the problem I said I need to talk to Mitch I need to talk to Mitch just Mitch get up the rabbi is downstairs Mitch says buzz min buzz min she says it's Shabbos I can't buzz him in says you're right he

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1. 0:01when my wife was about to give birth to our second child I called one of…
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3. 1:03I can't buzz him in says you're right he gets up he comes to the window…
4. 1:33the letter Aleph if you put the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet the olives into…
5. 2:04that sees an ear that hears that's your first step to redemption number two God as…

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