To Have Dignity - Rabbi Yossi Bensoussan (Mesirat Nefesh) STORY

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home here uh many years ago in brooklyn when we were living here my sister one time went to see her it was friday afternoon she was going in she walks in and sure enough there's my father he's sitting there with her and my father who's a very big tomahawk very big sadiq very special person almost unbelievable people i've ever met my whole life is sitting there and he's my grandmother couldn't see in the later years and her hands would shake and he's sitting there and he's putting on her makeup for her for shabbos and my sister was so like confused because you have to understand who my father was to us and now he's sitting over here being a makeup artist nothing against makeup artist but it was just a mind-bending thing she was like about what are you doing and my father said this is a dignified woman she's not meeting the shabbos maca like that looking like this and he put on her makeup that's understanding dignity

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1. 0:30home here uh many years ago in brooklyn when we were living here my sister one…
2. 1:01on her makeup for her for shabbos and my sister was so like confused because you…
3. 1:32that's understanding what real dignity is when we stand up for things when it's uncomfortable when…
4. 2:03when she was sick as any you never saw her that she was not looking her…
5. 2:33and he would wear his jacket because you stand a certain way when it doesn't matter…
6. 3:04high we don't need the world to know who we are from the way we dress…

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