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all right so this is our weekly mimer class we learn a mimer uh we're starting a new mimic discourse it's called ALU therefore they called they called what they called these days porm it's a porm mimer it was delivered by the an gimmel 19 53 in fact it was the second MIM of that fa and I believe historically it was the first time ever that said to in one fa uh it's also famous as the famous uh Hur purm if you know that story the re told a story about Aid back in Russia who was told to go vote and he didn't know anything about voting but theab the fifth said that everyone should vote so this back back in zarus Russia before the Revolution and he went to go vote and as he was coming out the people at the polling place were having a rally and they were saying hurah which is you know hooray but he heard it as H the Hebrew words Hur he is evil he thought they were saying H they were saying somebody's evil maybe they're one of the guys who's running for for office hurah so he just started cheering Hur hurah he is evil and then the debba started leading this chant in the middle of the faang and Hur Hur and everybody sort of got this concept like all right let's cheer hurah we don't know what we're cheering about but seems like something important is happening right now and then after por they found out that Stalin died so that was the famous hura incident at any rate here is the mimer it is the second mimer of the faan AL okay po the verse says the verse from millus
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- 0:00all right so this is our weekly mimer class we learn a mimer uh we're starting…
- 4:09days puim after the PO which is the lottery and it is known that the name…
- 8:22this Lottery evoke something negative it's part of the the scary part of the story but…
- 12:27implies not just that this incidental thing that the lottery happened to come out in the…
- 17:12that came later okay I I I'm not here to answer all these questions right now…
- 21:27creation it's also known about the reason why Hashem is not mentioned in the entire book…
- 25:45racing you know because if if it's for a carpool I'm going to take the 12…
- 29:57of Infinity it's all the same so how do you choose it's Mo okay let's let's…
- 34:02so now we understand the connection between these two factors they're both they both have a…
- 38:07framework of reality so but that's another discussion okay and porm is above the name hasem…
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