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KLM: Kavanah for a Shabbos Zemira that Reads like the Headlines

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Rabbi Asher Baruch Wegbreit

Rabbi Asher Baruch Wegbreit discusses deepening connection to Hashem and His Mitzvot.

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Heat. Heat. [Music] My [Music] sh sound familiar even with my voice? That's a shabas mirror. And that's a shabas mirror that's going to bring us a word for our table. You know what's amazing about the negoning of shabas? My kids have heard them hundreds and hundreds of time. And even if they're not participating with me, what happens? You go n suddenly they go n. It's like it's automatic. It's infectious. Right? So that's the beauty of a shabas mirror. But what if a shabas mirror will bring us a word for a table and connect directly to what's going on with the Jewish people around the world right now. Sounds good. That's not all you're going to get. I'm going to give you a mitzvah for life connected to Shabasmus. So, let's get going. In our parha, it couldn't be more famous. Uh Noah sends out the the the yona and it and the famous words belamoak the yona. This is in um per the the the yona did not find rest. Okay. Now is that language somewhere else? It indeed it is. It's in a in aaraba. Where else do we see aona? Just don't forget the Jews are compared to a yona. It says in Akaraba Goyam she the Jewish people sit amongst the goyamak and they're not finding rest in okay now that means very similar right matak both

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  2. 0:34That's a shabas mirror. And that's a shabas mirror that's going to bring us a word…
  3. 1:10with the Jewish people around the world right now. Sounds good. That's not all you're going…
  4. 1:41the the the yona did not find rest. Okay. Now is that language somewhere else? It…
  5. 2:16places says ralockish a a very important inference if she the Jewish if the let's start…
  6. 2:46anti-semitism. There was no uh all sorts of trials and tribulations and pulls of of Gashmus…
  7. 3:16Why? Because if there was manuka, we wouldn't return home. So, what a perspective on what's…
  8. 3:51anti-semits all of this is So you'll So you will return. Okay. Isn't that beautiful? So…
  9. 4:26song with what we call cavanus al meaning the words when reflected upon touch your heart…
  10. 4:58just hit this one says the safer. So beautiful. When you love someone, you sing to…

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