The Wildfires and the Universal Reverberations of Harbatzas Hatorah

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

Okay, welcome everyone to our special CM and this CM will launch the 2026 Tofshin Peyvav campaign for Machon Maggid Rakia. This is one of the best investments in the Jewish world today. You say, why is that? For two very important reasons. First of all, usually when you invest in a shul, you don't know if it's a long-term investment because a shul has a certain investment because a shul has a certain lifespan. Most shuls last 20 to 25 years, sometimes longer. But do they have eternal value? Depends on how people accord themselves in the Beis HaKnesses. Mishna Berurah says, only if in a shul they don't speak by the davening, does the shul have an eternal value. So, in this shul, it's a long-term investment. Whatever you do to support Machon Maggid Rakia, it will be l'netzach netzachim. Very proud that from these humble Very proud that from these humble quarters, many batei knesios, I know of a number of batei knesios that they took upon themselves to get the cell phone lockers and they don't bring their phone in because of what we do over here. What we've been able to do over here has tremendous ripple effects. If you go outside right now, the air quality is extremely uh poor. You smell heavy smoke. There's an advisory not to spend time outdoors today because hundreds of miles away,

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1. 0:00Okay, welcome everyone to our special CM and this CM will launch the 2026 Tofshin Peyvav…
2. 1:02Very proud that from these humble quarters, many batei knesios, I know of a number of…
3. 2:03the weather and the air quality in New York City. Now, let's make a simple equation.…
4. 3:35world-class eminent medabrim uh coming up. >> Thank you, Rav. Um so, fifth fifth annual campaign…
5. 5:14Oh, this is the real thing. >> Very good. >> Hello. My name is Yaakov. Um…
6. 6:45talking. So, there's it's feelers on a very high level and there's a lot of Torah…
7. 7:47say this rule represents both equally and you know a lot of rules it's more one…
8. 8:58Rabbi Kahn's rule in in Brooklyn when I first got married on Avenue J and this…
9. 9:59rav. And I saw the forthright courage that that it that that happens to you know,…
10. 11:02to construct while we're here. So, if you want to see a miracle, I don't know…

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