Bubbe's Tears | Rabbi Usher Yisroel Lissauer

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[Music] I grew up in Manhattan. It's a secular family, traditional. We made kids Friday night, a monthly candles before a benu. It was a different world. But since I was a little kid, I knew that there's a mitas of Hashem that runs the world. It was posh to me. Everything that I learned about Yiddishai stuck to me right away. If I learned, I was saying every single day. If I learned that every single day. If I learned that talking to Hashem was something special, I would be constantly talking to Hashem. And if I learned that saying is what we have to do before we drink a glass of orange juice, I would be doing that too. And that's how I progressed even before my baritzvah. When I became a baritzvah and I was in a Jewish day school, Amad Norak's day school in Park East. So then I learned Mishnayas. I learned about Gimmorra. I started putting on film every day. After I went to high school, I became even more. I started being makisol. I stopped eating at home and I was at odds with my parents. My father

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1. 0:00[Music] I grew up in Manhattan. It's a secular family, traditional. We made kids Friday night,…
2. 0:31every single day. If I learned that talking to Hashem was something special, I would be…
3. 1:01was at odds with my parents. My father looked at me like an extremist. He didn't…
4. 1:34and then going on further tool to Kazim and toes. That's my life's journey. But something…
5. 2:05old bab in told me the story she came from Moroccobas [Music] and she doesn't have…
6. 2:36sacrificed so much as a young widow to keep all of the mitzvah that I had…
7. 3:06they take him. Who are they? Says the holy the of a person create. If they're…

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