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Ohel Sarala Journey to Amukah: Nishmas - STATISTICALLY IMPOSSIBLE

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Rabbi Daniel Glatstein

Rabbi Glatstein discusses the statistical improbability of the journey to Amukah and Nishmas in this shiur.

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[screaming] >> Ad hena as a runo rachamecha v'lo yazvunu chasadecha. Until this point in time, your mercy has helped me. Your kindness has not abandoned me. These are from the most powerful [music] words in the entire tfila of nishmas. If you think about the wondrous, miraculous, continued existence [music] of the Jewish people after everything we've endured. For a Jew to be here today it's not statistically unlikely. It's not highly improbable. [music] It's downright impossible. Every after everything we've had to endure the destruction of the first base hamikdash, >> [music] >> destruction of the second base hamikdash where the Romans killed over a million, hunted down every Jew they could find, through the throughout the crusades the inquisition, the expulsion

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  1. 0:01[screaming] >> Ad hena as a runo rachamecha v'lo yazvunu chasadecha. Until this point in time,…
  2. 0:32existence [music] of the Jewish people after everything we've endured. For a Jew to be here…
  3. 1:04Chmielnicki pogroms, the holocaust for a Jew to be here today it's downright impossible. You know,…
  4. 1:36mind mikol nisim sha'asa kodesh baruch hu l'Yisrael b'Mitzrayim, than all the miracles the Ribono shel…
  5. 2:06Until today, your mercy has helped me. And your kindness [music] has not forsaken me. And…

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