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A story about Rabbi Shmuel Kamenetsky and his greatness.
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name and it says you're on table 27. maybe one of the greatest if not the greatest Rabbi in America today um is standing online I can't I'm not going to say that one of the greatest as I can tell you who's the greatest is Hashem to decide he's standing awaits for his for does his two woman and they ask him um okay apparently the woman didn't realize who he was and said um what's your name so he says uh the name is kamonesky so the one says okay let me look it up so she's looking on the list all the so she's looking on the list all the names she says there's a few comanez which one are you it's a nice thing it's himself if I tell her his name like this is gonna be embarrassing so he just says oh my name is Sammy she says I don't see any Sammy but I see a schmoil he says yeah that's my Hebrew name she says okay no problem here's the card and he walks away how humble do you have to be because I don't want to say if it was me what I
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