An Ancient Secret About Love and Survival - Rabbi Avraham Willig

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

Today we're going to learn about relationships as always, love as always, life as always, and see what we can see and learn what we can learn uh about how to uh how to develop the the greatest lives for ourselves and develop the greatest relationships. There's a very very remarkable and very sad story. Oh, you can put it here, please. Very remarkable and just right here. You can put that right here. You stay there. Thanks. Very remarkable and very sad and painful story. uh in the Talmud about a man named Khi was the greatest rabbi of the generation. one one of the greatest his name was. Okay. He was a he was a man who was who was so holy, so righteous, so spiritually gifted. He was able to like even perform miracles on behalf of the Jewish people, a great leader, a great sage to communities, you know, for in the Jewish world. And he lived a great he lived a good life. He lived a good life. However, there is a verse in the Bible in the in the uh in the book of Psalms which which troubled the great rabbitic. The verse is a verse that you actually many of you might know. If we go to one of those uh Jewish Shabas tables, you might have heard at the end of the meal people sing a little melody. Uh it's called Shiral. You know it. Would you like to sing it for us? Which you know it. You know what I'm talking about?

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1. 0:00Today we're going to learn about relationships as always, love as always, life as always, and…
2. 3:44of you be like, "Wait a second. I I once heard the story when I was…
3. 7:28always open. Like a good place to be. Thank God. One of the many reasons, you…
4. 11:40Um, I'd like to think about another couple of images, scenes, pictures, uh, uh, uh, stories…
5. 15:34A KANE'S HERE WHO KANE GET DOWN RUN FOR YOUR LIFE AND THE GROUND BE like…
6. 20:00disagreed with him. And Rabbi Lezar would not budge. He said, "No, no, no. I'm right."…
7. 23:47walls soar does he step I mean where could he go from there Hey, where can…
8. 27:31who is the chief of all the other rabbis is going to die. You follow? You…
9. 31:46excommunication. And his wife would make sure he wouldn't pray too much. What do you see…
10. 35:28wakes up and he's all alone. He does not have a single soul in the in…

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