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227 Vaera The Unending Voyage Of The Free Spirit (Live at The JLE) 060116

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Rabbi Mashiach Kelaty

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Um, I'm a little jet-lagged. I'll be honest with you. I'm still a bit in the clouds. I just came back from New York. I was speaking in uh in in Queens and in Great Neck and in greater New York and had a very interesting experience. A few a couple of which I'm going to share with you have absolutely nothing to do with my Devar Torah, but I just want to sort of get it off my chest. So on on the way there I I was staying with other people but I you know in people's houses but I stayed one night in a hotel. The first night when I get to America I think you know I need one decent night's sleep if I'm going to make it through the initial jet lag. So I stayed in a hotel in a place called Jamaica which is in Queens. Now, Jamaica, I don't know if any of you have heard of the play. No, Jamaica, Queens. >> It's like the name implies. It's I was basically the only white person there. >> There's a lot of chocolate. >> A lot of lot of um lot of Yeah. A lot of people from Jamaica or thereabouts. A lot of blacks, Hispanics as well. A lot of uh South American folk there. So, I'm staying in this hotel feeling a little bit self-conscious and I'm waiting. I'm on the sixth floor. I'm waiting for a lift elevator. Waiting for the elevator to go down and I get approached by this person. And this was remember this is the 24th

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  1. 0:00Um, I'm a little jet-lagged. I'll be honest with you. I'm still a bit in the
  2. 4:41>> Rabbi, did you eat inside eventually? >> I eventually ate. Yeah. Yeah, I did peel
  3. 9:32So they got used to it. You know, if he tells somebody he's an idiot often
  4. 14:29however good we have it here, we have to scream and shout until we get Msiah.
  5. 19:13happens to be a Mel. He also happens to work for Asia Torah. He's very accomplished.
  6. 24:00Wow. Okay. So, let's do the blood. They do the blood. Let's do the frogs. They
  7. 28:57going to be eight more of these plagues yeah just be careful be careful so now
  8. 33:46literally to go out, do a few sacrifices, bit of dancing, bit of chill and cougal,
  9. 38:30a country where there's a drought. The country next to you has plenty of rain. Go
  10. 43:28this point he realized you know something special is going on here because if you're winning

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