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Rabbi Shais Taub

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Hey, wow! Wow, dude. Wow. Wow! Do you realize Do you realize how long it's been since we've done the live call-in show? It's been a yavel. My grandmother, alav shalom, she used to say that expression, a yavel. It's been to Yavel is a jubilee, 50 years, 50-year Yavel is a jubilee, 50 years, 50-year cycle. Seven sabbatical years. Sabbatical is a 7-year cycle. So, seven sabbaticals is followed by a 50th year, which is called the yavel or yovel, which is actually the word jubilee. Where do you think the word jubilee comes from? Now you know. Anyhoo, yeah, our grandmother, alav shalom, she used to say yavel. I remember one time she said it. I remember one time she said it. I don't know why. It was like we had bananas, and she was like, "Oh, banana. I haven't had a banana in a yavel." One of my memories. We haven't done the live show in a yavel. But we are back. We are back. We are back. What do you think of that? So, is it, you ask? Where's your silver plaque? Well, it's not here. It's not with me. The silver plaque is actually at the SoulWords house. You all know, I'm sure you all know about the SoulWords house, which is a center of Torah study and gathering. And we did a big event there Yud Aleph Nissan, the night going into the Rebbe's birthday. We had group of women there learning a letter of the Rebbe, the 30th

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  1. 0:00Hey, wow! Wow, dude. Wow. Wow! Do you realize Do you realize how long it's been
  2. 8:10is not um interfacing well with the soul. And so that's what creates that feeling of
  3. 14:23It was effective but I don't think it was completed and it's Okay, but it was
  4. 19:59like I literally went walking at 5:30 in the morning. Like that's how much energy I
  5. 26:05I could not face my like I couldn't face death ever again, and I was scared
  6. 31:44th- a pain threshold. I'm saying neurologically literally the amount of pain they actually feel or
  7. 37:54animal that's been slaughtered kosher. We don't eat the the sciatic nerve because of because of
  8. 43:33I think he had psychological problems. Yes, he did. And you were 15. 100%. Uh you
  9. 49:38Yeah. And you're losing your innocence just hearing these things. Right. And you're thinking to yourself,
  10. 55:22and you're seeing a broken marriage, which again, lasted a very short time. People were talking

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