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What Is Holiness?

596 views · May 4, 2022

Rabbi Shay Tahan

Rabbi Yitzchok Oelbaum discusses the concept of holiness in a Torah talk.

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Welcome to Torah Talks Khazak's Tuesday night programs with special guest. Tonight we have with us a very dear friend of ours, Rabbi Yitzchak Oberman, shlita. Rabbi, how you doing? Ah, so good to see you. He's amazing, all the way from Lakewood, New Jersey. So excited to have the Rabbi who's involved with so many amazing causes, especially Khazak. And our custom, Rabbi, is before we jump to the topic, which is holiness, that's right, kedusha, holy, holiness, we have the custom of asking the Rabbi to tell our audience a little bit about yourself and audience a little bit about yourself and the great work you're involved with and stuff like that. Okay, so first of all, born and bred in Queens, how do you know? Queens, okay. How do you know? Queens is definitely the place to be. Um, I live in Lakewood, but I still feel like I live in Queens. That's right. Being involved with Khazak definitely is uh The best thing in the world. Exactly. Really, Khazak Khazak Khazak really really that's what it is. And uh coming in saying the shiyur for Khazak, saying for Agudah to appear is definitely something that is uh tremendous, something that's amazing. tremendous, something that's amazing. Um, keeps me going. And uh the truth is sitting here with you really is always an honor and really is a koved. The amount that you've done over the past 13 years is unreal, unreal. I mean, even the big Khazak event, which is the smallest of the smallest things that are actually done, but I don't think anybody else besides Agudah was able to get more than thousand people into a room until Rabbi Naftali came along. Came along with Rabbi Ilan. And they made an event. And

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  3. 3:34overcome any obstacles. And look the past 15 years how many obstacles we had and Baruch…
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  6. 9:38the Gemara in Maseches Shabbos says that Rabbi Akiva lost 24,000 students. Why? They don't have…
  7. 11:40were friends. And then where I moved to the next place, we actually dove in the…
  8. 13:41FIVE people in shul with him. So, that's really the mahalach. And not only that, when…
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