The Death of Nadav & Avihu Aron's Sons - The Righteous Atone for the Generation

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

Obviously, we're still, very much in mourning over of Chaim Kanievsky's passing. Um I'm going to talk about it on Sunday, so I'm not going to talk about it now. And I've talked about it before, so I don't want to use up this year for that. Although, once again, one could talk about a great Godol BaTorah uh forever, really, because there's so much greatness, there's so much holiness that uh we really have to recognize uh the loss that we suffered. Let me just make one point, which is the point I've made before, but I'll make it again. And I will make it again, as well. And that is when a person of great holiness leaves the world there is a vacuum and a void in the holiness of service of God. And when there is a void, the responsibility is on every one of us to try to fill the void in some way. So, if, for example just to make up a number, it makes no sense as a number, let's assume there were 10 billion gallons of holiness that Rav Chaim brought to the world and that holiness is gone. So, we have to fill it. Now, none of us can fill up 10 billion gallons of holiness. But, we do a little bit more. We strengthen ourselves a little bit more learning, chesed, ahavas Yisrael uh kavana in our davening making brachos uh with uh thinking about what we're saying. And in that way, each of us contributes, so to speak, a gallon to the mix. Enough people contribute a gallon, so

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