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Rav Asher Weiss Shlit"a Addresses Semicha Ceremony at His Kollel Toras Efrayim Shlomo

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Rabbi Asher Weiss

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Mazletov obviously as you can imagine I participate in quite a few events uh and I'm not inspired by many of them but tonight's event means a lot to me and uh I give shim and various kilm And uh my dear friend, we last met on your veranda and we spent some time looking at the sea or the lake. I don't know what it was. And uh I want to tell you that I'm not a financial advisor and when people come to ask me as about investments I say if you would know my track record you would run out of this room. You're not in the right place. But I do think that this investment is probably your best investment my dear friend. I gave a she this afternoon in Kyo and the Yungalite just don't let me leave and it's such a pleasure every time I come to the Kyo and I'm there at least once a week sometimes twice a week and I'm always stuck there and they don't let me out and it is such a simp and such a pleasure and people ask me why I'm associate iated with this kit more than many others. So there are a few reasons. First of all, the two rush kitles that are sitting up here, two of my most precious, beloved and special talid, I think they started off in my ky and I remember the Israeli light said, "Who are these two American? Oh, these two American young and these two young Americans are amongst my most precious and a pillow sitting up here and at the other end of the table is my precious and beloved son-in-law in

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