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The Parsha In My Life - Rabbi Reuven Wolf

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okay good evening so tonight is actually great since before kovet or cove since covert hit we didn't have people at the class so everything was just live on on on the channels but not in in person and this week it was requested to to to come to a class and i and i the benefit i had from always not having i'm just telling this to everybody that's in the live audience the benefit of not having the class live physically even though it's hard to get excited and passionate when you don't have anybody here and you're just speaking especially since i don't see the crowd i'm not sitting in front of a computer so i don't see the people listening even listening at home so that was the downside the good side of it was that i gave the class whenever i i was ready sometimes four in the morning sometimes and then whoever wants to listen to it listen to it at whatever their time is uh so i was enjoying that but we really need to bring the crowds back so i am making an announcement now even though i didn't announce this before is that everybody's welcome to attend physically the classes again back here at mayan thursday nights at eight thursday i mean tuesday and monday nights at eight and thursday nights at 8 30 and it would be great great it'd be really really fantastic to have people here physically and that would be that would really be special so that's great great news and a special night tonight is a we know a uh hasidic holiday called udbasetamas the day that the

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  1. 0:22okay good evening so tonight is actually great since before kovet or cove since covert hit
  2. 6:44bilaam balak is the king of moab he took billam up to the top of a
  3. 13:03the hazakim and strong katsurim i see them a rock solid they're like mountains like firm
  4. 19:30we're going to go to another spot where you're just going to see a little part
  5. 26:01words are going to be why the midrash says very clearly what is surim big mountains
  6. 32:18uh this is the the rebbe's the labaviche rebbe's original thought that the rabbi had a
  7. 38:29the youngsters of jacob and that's the name of youngsters is that they're cool it's not
  8. 44:40that's why rashi says no no no billam is not talking about fathers and mothers he's
  9. 50:57something like that to find something because really the true strength of israel is something so
  10. 57:24them you recognized you saw you felt you recognized that they are living all their life

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