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Old Battle, New Disguise | Letter #9 of Thirty Letters in Thirty Days 5786

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Rabbi Shais Taub

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And we are live. Okay, good evening. Welcome to 30 letters in 30 days. Another another edition. Another night. What is What is this? Are we on nine? I don't know what it is. And I'll just pull up the text for myself. And open up the PDF. If you want the PDF, um the link is in the description below. If you're watching live on YouTube right now, streaming, um remember we're learning 30 letters in 30 days as a Torah gift for the Rebbe's birthday. And the Rebbe asked for Torah gifts as well as tzedakah gifts. So, the learning that we're about to do is the Torah gift. And the tzedakah gift, I like to use the the Colel Chabad uh pushka app. Looks like a little Colel Chabad pushka. And here I go. And you can get your own Colel Chabad pushka app at your app store. And you can give tzedakah all day long. I'm going to have me some celery over here. Special treat. I'm going to make a brachah. Baruch atah Adonai Eloheinu Melech ha'olam shehakol nihyeh bidvaro. Tonight's letter is longer than usual. Not that long of a letter, but compared to other letters that we've done in this series, it's a little a longer. Uh so, let's jump right in. Baruch Hashem Zion Kisle of Tushion to Zion, Brooklyn. We have a name here, uh a name with a bunch of honorific titles preceding it. We know who this is. This is a very well-known rabbinic figure. Reb Adin Even Melech Schulson or also known as Bar Shaul. And actually, as the Rebbe refers later in the letter to this fact, he is of Chabad lineage. From the Alter Rebbe's uh

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  1. 0:00And we are live. Okay, good evening. Welcome to 30 letters in 30 days. Another another
  2. 3:28in Yerushalayim. And he was a rav at the time when the Rebbe was writing to
  3. 6:47In your schools, you have a number of youth, uh and this is as far as
  4. 10:41Now, if in previous generations there was a notion that it was possible to inoculate, let's
  5. 13:51elaborate on such a painful matter. In other words, the Rebbe is recapping the history that
  6. 17:00those who claim this. U'k'may She'reinu B'mochash, and we saw it for ourselves very clearly, U'v'einay
  7. 20:40Aval Adrab, Shinui HaTzura She'einena Negia Laguf. It's only a change of form, it's not a
  8. 23:56on a situation which even in Eretz Yisrael, in the holy land, is frightening and alarming.
  9. 27:16It's it's guidance and it's customs. It's your responsibility, the Rebbe says, to it's it's it's
  10. 30:37And since you descended from the Alter Rebbe who is the author of the well-known teaching

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