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Breslov Efrat - Your food contains a soul, and may be part of your soul—make the blessing carefully!

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BRI Breslov: The Breslov Research Institute

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All right, everyone. Welcome back to Basm. Hope everyone had a wonderful Shabas and uh Okay, we're in the weeks of Shim, right? The six weeks of Shimosah, right? The six weeks. Um and uh there special special weeks. The Arizel spoke a lot about it that it's a time that we can make [laughter] it's a time that you can make repairs [snorts] for different things that are rest of for different things that are rest of the year difficult to repair. These weeks are are much easier to repair. Okay. Show them right like the when when the uh statement went out the Basco went out to uh to to uh all you guys come back except for right that's where we learn it from it means to come back the whole idea is to means to come back the whole idea is to come back make ja and uh well we're learning in today we're in giml and this lesson is pretty much a good lesson to understand about this idea of chuva and how things come back and so on. Let's see with Let's go. Here we go. Olive, everyone have the place. Good. Yeah. Good. Okay. Okay. This is an idea of whenever you eat something, you smell something, right? Anything that you that you enjoy, anything that you enjoy, you have to make a blessing on it. Okay? Those are things that you enjoy. Things that you have you that you that you that you partake in. So if you want to be able to partake in it, you make the blessing before you you have it. Why?

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  1. 0:00All right, everyone. Welcome back to Basm. Hope everyone had a wonderful Shabas and uh Okay,
  2. 4:19and and animals and mammals and and uh what have you. Okay. [clears throat] All of
  3. 8:23Anyway, so it's not this is not a a brev idea. Okay, this is not this
  4. 12:45right as as okay. [laughter] How do you like that? All the brahas of things that
  5. 16:52speaking to Hashem he's he's working things out all of the mistakes that he made he's
  6. 20:58If we had all believed at that time, we have this state because Hashem wants us
  7. 25:18I'm making a Hey, Hashem, I'm revealing now. You made this. It was you, Hashem. It
  8. 29:25which is page 50 the second side don't don't um don't I don't know treat it
  9. 33:41all theas you teach them. You teach them the braas so they know how to make
  10. 37:54Hashem it's conducive for serving Hashem. We don't have any ideas of how Hashem runs things.

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