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The greatness of man: freedom of choice by Rabbi Avrohom Stulberger

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Rabbi Avrohom Stulberger

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vacations are always great and chance to recharge the batteries is uh it's really a wonderful thing and it really is part as we know from the Gemara ib2 lazuli humor when you take some time off to get yourself back in a rejuvenated mode that's literally part of your spiritual growth you might seem like you're departing the Shiva and taking some time departing the Shiva and taking some time off but in reality it is part of a parcel of what you need if that's your perspective when you leave that yeshiva that place of learning or that whatever spiritually connected place you're at and you leave that place to be able to go further and and higher in the future that's all part of your service our College barcode that's all part of the mitzvah of innocence Talmud Torah and spiritual growth the key thing of course spiritual growth the key thing of course is to make sure that that's what that experience is about the key thing of course is to make sure that that experience is one of recharging your batteries in that constant Sholem falling and sort of using that time as I very often speak about it over the beginning of the summer the the black hole that we can sometimes fall into that abyss of nothingness and emptiness that even for 10 days is way too dangerous jar by sight so I really urge

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  1. 0:00vacations are always great and chance to recharge the batteries is uh it's really a wonderful
  2. 2:06you think about it it's very frightening but at the same time very liberating no godless
  3. 4:13instrumental making many many thousands of Jews over the years religious and he said he was
  4. 6:17intellectually strong people love in a touch will challenge at least I used to in the
  5. 8:25so let me understand this you this brilliant intellectually honest person who knows how to analyze
  6. 10:27saying guys I don't want you dead I don't want you buried in the sea I
  7. 12:30percent it's about changing it's about recognizing it's about embracing it's about doing I'm not ready
  8. 14:37door and says mr. Friedman we'll just pick a name mr. Friedman's on the phone he
  9. 16:41do it you have the blessing and he says you know I'll think about it the
  10. 19:19show up in 1948 we inhabit the land fully and look at the miracles what's happened

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