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Why What You Do Matters - How Chanukah Teaches Gratitude - Shiur in 5 Towns

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Rabbi Daniel Kalish

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I'll be honest. When I was driving here, I was with Shman with Ysef with Schlommo and Re Morai, my friend said that I'm going to leave you a spot in the front. There's going to be a cone there and I'm going to make sure I'm going to reserve you a spot. And we all started laughing in the car. And my thought was in this with this the weather, the snow and what was happening, we thought it was funny to leave a spot that we didn't we didn't think there would be necessary like leaving a spot. We thought we said there'll be many spots. So I'm like shocked to see a crowd like this. Thank you to every single person for being here. I'm expressing I appreciate it. You see how precious our people is of and it's a snow day and people are coming out to learn to be we want to prepare for the of Kaneka and I just appreciate every single person being here. The taco was necessary and I appreciate Morai you having me and saving the spot in front. So thank you Rabb Morai for inviting me and arranging a beautiful ma that we should be making for Kaneka. I want to ask a question that I find it funny that I have they had this question for years. I'm going to be honest just because it's true. Am I embarrassed that I had this question for years? I I had this question for ye many years. I was

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  1. 0:01I'll be honest. When I was driving here, I was with Shman with Ysef with Schlommo
  2. 5:54So we can look at our little kid say he's not pushing hard enough. More zos.
  3. 12:12but in lazy is thehat that doesn't matter. So what's the opposite? It doesn't matter is
  4. 18:58Probably bigger than all the did a mitzvah. Y' connected to hashem. Shem was mit and
  5. 25:22few We have every other week a Shabas and yeshiva. My wife and I thought and
  6. 31:44father over the year of Aveos in a certain way. I got to study and live
  7. 37:41things to thank Hashem now what I want to express that was a good plan that
  8. 44:22brothers cried together for the difficulties they're going through told me it was one of the
  9. 51:14for the art. But the days in front of us have the opportunity to plug into
  10. 57:42that which we don't understand a deep space. It's not glass half half full. It's from

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