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Purim: When Hashem Hides (Ep. 318)

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Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky

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Hello. Welcome to the Rabbi Alaski show. I am Rabbi Alaski. And this is a special perm edition of the Rabbi Alaski show. Whether you're watching with our friends and producers of our attorney time, who by the way just finished their [music] fundraising drive. I want to thank all of my listeners who [music] participated. I recognize a lot of your names. I don't know how to answer everybody personally, but let me give a public shout out to everybody who helped uh to almost get me to my goal. I'm $200 short. >> [laughter] >> And but baruch Hashem, baruch Hashem, to everybody who participated and uh and wherever you gave it, even if you gave it to other speakers and they got the credit for it instead of me, I have no problem with that. It's not It's not just my cover. I don't really care. can push it up It's amazing how many people there are out there wearing our you know, seventh year, and people are only now discovering the show. And then they go back and watch six and a half years of this. And many of these people are then put into a detox center for a very long time because there's only so much of this you can handle and then it just pushes you over the edge and then you end up starting to talk with a um comical Long Island accent and you say things like I am. >> [laughter] >> Whatever the case happens to be. So listen, I appreciate it. I I you know, as I'll say more than the calf wants to nurse from its mother, the mother wants to give to the child. So what an opportunity. I I've mentioned this beforehand friends that I meet uh

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