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century. It was during the Aseres Yemei Teshuvah and as you can imagine in a serious Yeshiva, things are rather intense in the days leading up to Yom Kippur between Rosh Hashanah leading up to Yom Kippur. The the davening maybe a little extra kavana, learning with a little extra smadar, really really putting extra elbow grease into their avodas Hashem. And some of the bachurim came to Rav Eliyahu and they said, "I don't understand. You look out in the street and people are going about their business like tomorrow is just a regular day. But we, who in general spend so much time learning, we're the ones who are taking this so seriously. It seems a little imbalanced." So Rav Eliyahu understands their their point and he offers the following anecdote from his own youth to explain it. He says, "When I was a very young boy, I was about four or five years old, I was horsing around in my house in the kitchen and I accidentally knocked over a glass and the glass fell on the floor and broke. And what was perhaps a bit of an understatement, my mother was very unhappy with me. She was unhappy with my behavior and she let me know. Maybe he got a little bit of a zetz. He He's going to remember not to horse around in the kitchen anymore." He says, "A few days later, one of the chickens from the backyard somehow gets into the house and it's flapping around the kitchen, and knocks over a whole tray of glasses,
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