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HaGaon Rav Asher Weiss shlit”a shares a thought while sitting shiva for his mother a”h.

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Rabbi Asher Weiss

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[Music] so for the past two years we've been sharing advaita every year of shabbos as you know as you see i am in yemen so i can't really say david you see the korea last sunday morning my great mother passed away and i know that many of you have been diving for and i thank you profoundly no thriller ever goes in vain and everything that comes out of a jewish heart the kavona does something sometimes we may never know what a kodesh boku did without phyllis but they never sink into oblivion so thank you and i just want to share with you who my mother was so this week's parties on and the essence of columbine means expects from them every stage of their life so when a person lives a very long life from him right here and right now my mother had a very long life she was 93 and what a life but at 15 she was in auschwitz thirty family members arrived and you'd gimmel that's the day my late wife passed away 29 family members were sent right and she alone was sent left she was terrified and she ran to the other side to catch up with them and the america slapped her in the face he grabbed her by the neck and he threw her few meters she fell shocked hurt by the time she got up she saw no one of her family members they were all gone

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  1. 0:03[Music] so for the past two years we've been sharing advaita every year of shabbos as…
  2. 0:33no thriller ever goes in vain and everything that comes out of a jewish heart the…
  3. 1:10on and the essence of columbine means expects from them every stage of their life so…
  4. 2:23she alone was sent left she was terrified and she ran to the other side to…
  5. 2:56sadly she went left they perished that very same day and she alone survived juarez she…
  6. 3:56matseiva akorozatov that encapsulates who she was the happiest person in the world she had a…
  7. 4:27and she was the happiest person i ever knew huge difficulties throughout her life 17 years…
  8. 4:57it was such a pleasure to be in my mother's presence every day she never complained…
  9. 5:57and it is only then that you could really love it and that's the way she…
  10. 6:29so bizarre hashem next week maybe we could speak at greater length and i'll tell you…

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