An exploration of who we represent through the stories of Efron, Avraham, Pinchas, and Eliyahu Hanavi.
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good evening ladies and gentlemen back in lakewood tonight broadcasting live from the basement of my talmud gal we're here in lakewood hashem for us my nephew got married tonight so we just actually left the chupa minutes ago just to come running back to try to spend a few minutes with you tonight and growth tonight's class was in the making for a long time the name that we're going to discuss tonight are delicate ones and this is a share that over the years bits and pieces we put out it's funny how even my high school classes would remember this particular class hashem should give us the right words in siata deshmaya to be able to deliver such delicate points in the proper way these are things we need to hear but should help us to hear it in the way that we can accept start with tonight amen ladies and gentlemen we're living in such incredible times and times like these call for drastic measures because we're holding at the last minutes the last moments of this incredible galut and you know that the darkest moments of night is that split moment of darkness right before daybreak right before daybreak dark gives its best fight the darkness puts up its best fight and boy are we holding in those days a world that's upside down a country that has no idea what's going on how things are hanging in the interim with absolutely no rhyme or reason or understanding on the highest levels of government and even in streets you can feel the tension and the disarray it's one big mabula out there and people mamash have no idea what's going to be tomorrow
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- 0:15good evening ladies and gentlemen back in lakewood tonight broadcasting live from the basement of my…
- 7:06he paid for that but not just any money but this was universal money this was…
- 13:39was stingy he was money hungry he was eyeing alive he knew that avraham was ready…
- 20:22yet said hara has four hundred powers in his toolbox of destruction and those four hundred…
- 26:48says the gown the first time a word is mentioned in torah that's the true meaning…
- 33:10killed the tough and that's why the pasuk says hashem you killed the power of 400.…
- 39:36avi came running 400 miles [Music] because the gemara is telling you that he had to…
- 46:14he teaches him the gemara another 400 times and this time the student gets it because…
- 52:40we went out to panovich one one that one thursday actually shah gave shuriklali on thursday…
- 59:04when he announces the coming of mashiach we have to be so careful today when it…
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