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King Chizkiyahu misses the opportunity to usher the Golden Era of Moshiach What mistake did he make?

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Dr. Jack Cohen

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So, first of all, I want to I know it's hard, but we grew out as a family and it's not easy to get everyone in one room, but somehow, but we did it and I'm grateful to everyone for being here tonight. I know that grandma is getting a lot of nat and gad and tonight which is to say a small little you know devout to give her her in even bigger boost. Before I I do that I want to say thank you to everyone who participated in contributing in the cooking of all the food and the desserts. You all deserve a tremendous you know clap and thank you. [applause] Thank you to my to my dear wife, to my daughters, to my nieces, to all the wonderful people who made this happen. You know what? You could go either two ways with this. You can have something like this. You can have chiffon cake tomorrow with a little I thought this was a little bit more, you know, deserving for grandma to be able to her first yight that we should be able to celebrate it in in a more, you know, substantial fashion. So typically when I do a a for my father it would be more of a on but this year I was inspired to do something else and I'll tell you what my inspiration was. I got a I got a text I got a text from someone named Mon'nique. If you're out there it's great. She's from LA and she said that I was told that I need to

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  1. 0:00So, first of all, I want to I know it's hard, but we grew out as
  2. 2:08they're opening it up to older people, to couples, to divorced people. So this is the
  3. 4:53school. So then that led me to think what made her fall for Christianity. And the
  4. 7:04he made himself king. The problem is he needed to create a religion in order to
  5. 9:40was at the time the warlord of the Middle East and the world at large. He's
  6. 12:27finger and 180,000 people getting wiped out are all the same thing. Everything is a miracle.
  7. 14:35across the across the little, you know, space selling the exact same merchandise and 20% less.
  8. 17:16kush hashem. Let me just Why is that important? Give me a second. I want Okay.
  9. 19:30comes to talk to him and he says to him that's not your problem. Rule number
  10. 22:12wasn't a person about fanfare. She was a person who who saw her responsibilities in the

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