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Rabbi Eliyahu Bergstein on "Who Comes First Me or My Spouse: Navigating the First Year of Marriage"

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Chazaq Organization

A lecture on navigating the first year of marriage from Rabbi Eliyahu Bergstein, a renowned Jewish speaker and lecturer.

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uh good evening everyone thanks for coming as rabbi ruttenberg mentioned i'm happy to come back always to forest hills it's the old hometown i grew up uh i went to eshiva for 12 years and it started right on 108th street so it's a couple of years ago but i'm happy to be back i'm also happy to address this subject together with rabbi ruttenberg who said so many fantastic and interesting points that without me it would have been worthwhile just to come to hear that that's for sure i'm glad to come for ahmet i'm glad to i'm glad to come for ahmet i'm glad to come for hazak and i'm glad to meet the people that i've met before and also the new people that have come now even before you're married getting married is not such an easy thing the talmud actually has a story that someone once asked rabbi ben khalaft or the great talmudic rabbi god created the world in six days right and what's he doing since then and he answered since then he's a shotgun he's pairing up people he's a shotgun he's pairing up people he's pairing up shidduchim husbands and wives boys and girls and she says that's what god is doing i can understand creating the world you need god for but to make the shidduchim to make the marriages to put together two people to be get married i can do it too i'll show you and that night this person took a thousand of her slaves

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