The Broken Engagement

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Yitzchak Sakhai’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

i'm sure everyone knows a famous story about rava valley yourself about how he met his wife but a lot of people don't know one part about his broken engagement and i want to share that with you guys when he was younger and started to date he actually got married finally when he was a little older than his peers it was very difficult for him to find the right person and the way we know him now rahul vader yourself was the greatest talmidhakam of our generation you don't have 1.2 million people go to your funeral if you're just an okay guy it was recorded as the greatest and the biggest funeral in all of israel's history when he was younger he had a very hard time he was from a very poor family he was very poor himself and he gave all of his time to learning torah and those days [Music] people everybody was poor so when there's a young man trying to get married and he's poor also not that many people are really interested to give their daughters because they're poor he's poor another mouth to feed they couldn't do it it was very difficult so he wouldn't get that many choices he wouldn't get that many people that would set him up to go out finally there was a girl that he was going out with and it seemed this is the one and they make an arrangement they do shidduchim those days they used to also do shidduchim where it's like a contract not a semi-contract when the families get together they talk about what they're bringing to the table what the husband will bring what the girl will bring and it seems this is the one and he's

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2. 1:02time he was from a very poor family he was very poor himself and he gave…
3. 2:03very very happy a few dates later rabavady is on a date now he's in his…
4. 3:04to the park i'll walk with my wife whatever it is but like movies and and…
5. 4:06ravovaya is called to go to court she has summoned them to bettin jewish court why…
6. 5:08know who you are you should still give her the money that she wanted you know…
7. 6:08world fast forward ravi yosef is in his late early 90s late 80s he wasn't receiving…
8. 7:09mahila please stop please don't i hadn't even forgotten you didn't bother it was things that…
9. 8:10not until the day he dies until the day she dies she's gonna have food and…
10. 9:11torah made him who he was when he learned about khasit he acted on khasid when…

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