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Rabbi Tzvi Sytner

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I heard this story with that they I haven't seen it anywhere but I remember hearing it years ago where the they say that his wife it was nerz and he remarried later in life um when he was I guess he was older or he remarried at some point and the story goes that when he was older he was already an old man it was suka's time and he was going to build his suka and he was going to put up his suka the same way he put up his suka in the same place he put it up for the last 80 years okay whatever however many years so he starts to put up the suka and as as after he puts it up so his wife says you know ah You know, I don't know if maybe it's You know, I don't know if maybe it's going to be better if you put the suka over there. It will look better if it's over there in this spot over there. I don't know how big, you know, place was already, right? So, okay. So, he takes down the suka and he puts the suka up and he's an old man. Puts the suka up over there. And his wife goes, "Oh, no, you're right. It was better over the first part." So, the takes down the suka and puts the suka up again. Now, do you think the didn't know after building the suka for I don't know 60 years in the same place? You think he didn't know that that was probably the best place for it? Of course he knew.

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  1. 0:00I heard this story with that they I haven't seen it anywhere but I remember hearing
  2. 0:31You know, I don't know if maybe it's going to be better if you put the
  3. 1:02for it? Of course he knew. But he could have been right or he could have
  4. 1:32opinion. I'm dedicated and committed. These are all the things he exhibits when he goes and
  5. 2:04about Noah and Hashem and really a lesson for our relationships. Why is it that we

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