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Can Someone Really Curse You?

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Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky

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  1. 0:00Hi, this is Dov bar-Levsky with our question and answer series where in a few minutes…
  2. 0:30to become the chosen people, Hakadosh Baruch Hu said to him, "I will bless the people…
  3. 1:01and is healthy and is good gives a better bracha. And somebody wants to curse you,…
  4. 1:31else in the world. Right? Means anybody can give you a blessing and anyone can give…
  5. 2:03if I can quote uh Mad-Eye Moody from uh book four of uh Harry Potter, where…
  6. 2:33you need power to put it into a curse. The same thing is true about an…
  7. 3:04what is a curse and using a curse word. A curse word is called uh >>…
  8. 3:34um yeah, we don't want anyone to curse us and we want people to bless us.…
  9. 4:06said, "Let there be light." And God spoke and it's it's the words. That's why the…
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