TBC - Anyone can do Teshuvah!!! The staggering story of the Megale Amukot
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[Music] [Applause] [Music] so since we are on our journey to duchova it's not only important to learn the halacha the approach the methods it's also important to take stories from the past and to learn from them morals so yesterday we learned about rabbi zabinduldea very important story today i want to share with you a very powerful story which i a few times talked about it uh but very very general without too many details i would like to share with you the story today the story is uh told in one of the books of a great sadiq that that's not his name his name is natan natan shapiro but he's known as the meghalaya mukhor why is he called megalia mukhot because one of his famous books that is called megaliamu which means reveals the depths right this special rabbi i don't think many people really understand his greatness but like i said his name is he lived in poland in krakow he was the chief rabbi the head rabbi of the city of kako which at the time was the oasis of the torah was born in the 1584 died in 1633 so we're looking here about 400 years ago and i don't want to go too much in length about the meghalaya you can look look him up i can tell you just a few uh key points about him that you know and i highly recommend by the way to learn from his torah he has the book it's called gems that you can't even fathom so as i said he was the avedine the
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- 0:00[Music] [Applause] [Music] so since we are on our journey to duchova it's not only important…
- 4:45uh butcher who was a owner of uh of uh like a meat store he took…
- 9:26other side of town from the non-jews bring it to their warehouse wrap it and they…
- 14:19years if a person who eats it that's the result how about the person who supplies…
- 19:02shmatters on you rags you're going to wear on you you're going to burn all your…
- 23:50a document that you saying that you are approving our chuva and that our shiva should…
- 28:40what a kadosh what a holy individual and he's shocked he doesn't know what to say…
- 33:37the severity is not something to take so lightly to ignore when you desecrate shabbat when…
- 38:28but to feel horrible for what you did now you're talking now you have to take…
- 43:11yet has to rip you from inside and more than that you have to be down…
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