A lecture on cultivating emunah and dealing with suffering in Israel.
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other to inspire each other for a new year as we begin a journey of a new year 57 85 and I want to begin by blessing each and every single one of you students that you should have an amazing incredibly successful year filled with abundance health happiness Prosperity a year of tremendous in your personal lives in your academic life in your social life in your internal emotional and family life and it should be a year of true life and it should be a year of true victory of a year of ultimate Victory and of ultimate G and Redemption I was asked to speak today to all of you about the situation in our Holy Land the crisis the war that's been going on already for more than a year the war that broke out last year and in Israel it's one day P 5784 English calendar October 7th 5784 English calendar October 7th 2023 a date that will be remembered by the Jewish people for eternity a date that has touched us each to our core a day that has viscerally affected every single Jew not only in the Holy Land of course but also every single Jew living the world over and a day use impact we could still feel and cut with a knife literally every single day more than a year as a war is still raging
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- 4:42so dear girls dear students dear precious since we're all family I could say dear sisters…
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- 13:58apologized to Iraq Afghanistan you come to you declare war on our people you murder our…
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- 36:36horrible mistakes in a generation when the Creator gave the Jewish people back their holy land…
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