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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Aaron L Raskin’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.
the the Reb rashab was the fifth Reb of kabad he was born on the 20th ofin this month in the year 1860 when he was around four or five years old his mother brought him into his grandfathered for in honor of his birthday and when he came into his grandfather he began to cry say why are you crying was the pas of V when God revealed himself to Abraham and he began to cry and said how come God revealed himself to Abraham and God doesn't reveal himself to us said a ye a Jew aad a holy Jew who is who makes a resolution and a determination at the age of 99 years old to undergo a major operation of circumcision that person is worthy that God should reveal himself to him this is the story of now the tells us which means pumpkins pumpkins already when they're very young and they begin to Blossom and Bloom already we know if it's going to be a good pumpkin or not a good pumpkin and then the same is true with holy people sikim already at the youth you're able to see the Brilliance and the insight and the Holiness of that person so the fact that the reab asked this question it means it's a legitimate question how do we understand this question and how does the question apply to all of us today now if you look in the very first verse of the para it says the following God revealed himself to in says Rashi the following why did God come to says
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- 5:51know it was the third day of the circumcision and God came to see how he…
- 8:34here's a piece of bread throw around the table you ran with with tremendous Zeal and…
- 11:42doesn't God reveal himself to me if God is so kind he should feel my pain…
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