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A Torah shiur on the importance of perseverance and determination in serving Hashem.
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[Music] When faced with an a challenge that challenges our spiritual integrity, our gay leum gave us advice. They taught us that there are different shall we call them tools that can be utilized to help us not succumb to the ahuru. There's a famous story with the stipulos the hustiper that he was conscripted the hustiper that he was conscripted into the Russian army ripped away from his invadivistto when he came to the base they gave him chores to do and he refused saying today is shabas I cannot perform any of these chores whereupon they said okay we're going to make you a sentry you will guard the outpost they gave him a gun and his job was to go outside and watch the military encampment of the Russians The gun is muk but he found a way of carrying it that should not compromise in the hilus muks. But there's another challenge that
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