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Rabbi Moshe Meir Weiss

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of raising a family although he was a Holocaust survivor and raised a beautiful family and uh did so in Manchester is nama should have ganed and he should be a meer and they also want to wish maz to their wonderful uh uh children binyam and Freddy Sharasher uh uh for the birth of Sarah China. She should grow up uh for to um and all kinds of wonderful things. So I uh want to start off this year uh with a topic that I've spoken about in the past. It's very timely. Uh 9/11 is very much on our mind already. There's a uh there's a the highest state of alert in New York with bomb threats already for the anniversary of 9/11. already for the anniversary of 9/11. So in the there's a famous Hashem will bring against you a nation from a distance coming like the eagle sweeps. Now this Pik came alive thousands of years ago. The refers us to the magnificent community in Alexandria of Mits. There was a magnificent Jewish community in Alexandria Mitsim. This community started uh after the destruction of the first temple when Gdalia was assassinated. That's why we have right after rashish the fast of some right after rashish the fast of some Gdalia. Soak and surviving warriors fled to Mitang. At that time the community of Alexandria flourished. The community was magnificent. There was a basilica a giant bamedish basis to be exact a giant bamedish basis to be exact that sat. Now whether this is an exaggeration or not I don't know but literally it means that it sat a,200,000 people whether this is exaggeration or not but it was a huge basilica creating housing uh literally literally myriads of people

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  2. 8:01was that the this Zar, whoever it was, Alexander Tarinas, Trignos, this Zar had a a
  3. 13:48telling you what happened 911. It's right there in front of you. Now of course that's
  4. 19:31The guy who's struggling to make ends meet doesn't need to see your chandelier and your
  5. 25:25developments and we're driving fancy cars. And uh we build magnificent beyond him and the guy
  6. 31:08sin. That's our goal of course. But it means all our days should be with chuva.
  7. 36:56We don't start with a dirty slate. We're coming back because our nishama has a stain
  8. 42:44Kamali is a very sad thing. So most don't do it. But it is a mic
  9. 48:31tin. We know that one of the rituals that we do on the night of rashishana
  10. 54:23busy with with PTA and one night I'm busy with my children before a test and

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