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שידור חי - הרה"ג רבי יואל משה פינטו שליט״א

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Rabbi Yoshiyahu Pinto

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Come to the house of the dear owner of the house, Rabbi Ilan the righteous, may God protect you, bless you, make you happy, and do you good with God's help. We are on a very special day today, the We are on a very special day today, the first day of the month of Elul. The month of Elul is a vast, terrible, and overwhelming month. Every moment of it and every minute of it is of enormous significance. It has enormous power and is truly capable of changing a person's life from one end to the other. One of our greatest early rabbis, who lived about 800 years ago, was called the Maril. He was a holy of holies, an angel of God, and one of the greatest halachic arbiters of the Ashkenazim. Most of their customs and most of their halachic arbiters are taken from the teachings of the Ma'arid, whom the Ramah, who is the main arbiter of the Sephardim, relies on in most rulings and in most of the Sephardim, relies on in most rulings and in most matters. He writes something that can illustrate to us and show us what the virtue and power of this month is in the greatest and most powerful way. We know that there is a very great mitzvah in the Torah to add dance to the holy. There is a time for mundane and a time for sacred. We are commanded to take the time of the Holy and expand it into the time of the secular. For example, Saturday. Shabbat begins at 7 o'clock. There is a mitzvah from the Torah to bring Shabbat forward a little, to welcome Shabbat one minute before Sheva. Usually, this is

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  1. 0:02Come to the house of the dear owner of the house, Rabbi Ilan the righteous, may
  2. 3:09with himself. A person has someone who is in his head, someone who is in his
  3. 6:16do anything bad to another person. His heart is filled with good thoughts, good news, good
  4. 9:19his difficulties, the terrible things he had. And then he degrades himself. So he finds a
  5. 13:22entire globe. Why does it say that the Holy One, blessed be He, is found in
  6. 16:28Ravah. Mount Gerizim is the name of one mountain. Arbel is the name of another mountain.
  7. 19:32the future of his life, the main things he wants to do in life, his partner
  8. 23:09delve deeper, understand why this thing that you want to take on is good for your
  9. 26:14views a person wants to change. How many new choices a person wants to make in
  10. 29:20his principles and his holiness and the special things he had in every situation and at

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