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A hashkafa shiur given by Rabbi Mendel Kessin on the legacy of Rav Chaim Kanievsky.
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okay uh everybody welcome back and uh like you know i mentioned that you know during the uh the uh time that i have not said this year last week i didn't say one we have of course been visited by an unbelievable tragedy and that is the death the patira the passing of a person that we really cannot comprehend in who he really was uh raphael kaniewski and i'm going to talk about him tonight but my point or my perspective is very different than other people you know you read as obviously a lot of the papers came out the jewish papers you know uh whatever they came out you know with special sections in terms of who he was and his greatness his tremendous encyclopedic knowledge and uh his uh character traits i mean in many ways he was an extraordinary person so that's what they dwelt on but i want to take a different direction because you know after a while you know okay we read about this and so on you know but i wanted to come in from a different direction and that direction is the divine plan and to try to see what this means based on what the reversal what god wants to achieve so as such i'm going to ask certain questions which i'm going to try to answer and then to interpret what as far as i see what this means you know which is really will give us a
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- 0:01okay uh everybody welcome back and uh like you know i mentioned that you know during…
- 6:17further and they asked him what was the highlight of the trip uh that he could…
- 12:33he was groomed for greatness i mean think about this his father is the stipela going…
- 18:46caller turkula and i would like to try to answer that so that is the first…
- 24:55that could take on and usually what the version does is what he always when he…
- 31:09if god gives you the ability to destroy your enemy right fine but the two aspects…
- 37:17the windows begin to lower you see it's almost like you have a house right and…
- 43:29right so that verse is fulfilled that means if every jew does not know the torah…
- 49:38therefore he allowed or he actually created a kanevsky to be able to achieve that level…
- 55:47so therefore i'm looking at this as a completely different uh in a completely different way…
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