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When People Become Monkeys | Shloshim Hesped for Rabbi Dr. Moshe Dovid Tendler

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Rabbi YY Jacobson

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the entire prominent distinguished tender mishpache the children of course in-laws grandchildren the friends and of course this extraordinary community synagogue there is a startling and quite intriguing madrish madhuri shrabba kahelas a madrish on kahella's ecclesiastes where the medrash says that human life consists of two fours seven errors when a child is born hareyo kamela when a child was born he or she is treated like a king or a queen everybody wants to hold them everybody is taking pictures everybody wants to know how much he weighed right remember what color here what color eyes looks like mommy looks like tati looks like nobody looks like the eltaba two years old i quote to madrid for giving me hareu ke khazer he's basically looking for every dirty place in the house if there's a sewer system if there's a cesspool the child is there if there's ice cream it has to be spread on the couch and the new couch the white couch benesi turns ten are you kidding now he's like a goat he's jumping a flit a hack he's a wild goat an untamed mountain goat perhaps benestrom he turns twenty arreyo jesus like a horse grooming himself making sure he's creme de la creme a handsome young man to be able to find the great sugar that's what the madrid says like a horse wants to be powerful looking handsome and appealing and then you get married and of course he becomes the donkey somebody got to pay the bills somebody got to work for a living ash slept and schlepped and schlepped he's slapping you get a little older barak hashem the family grows and the tuition grows mothers doesn't speak about the tuition but now the bills are astronomical hareo kikelev now he needs the chutzpah of a

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