Ricky Cohen. Hanukka II: Give it up for G-d

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

last time we will open it up uh towards the end all right we have a uh a special dedication tonight uh to a very special lady's father and uh sarah towel has been a student and a learning partner of mine for many years i've been privileged and honored and i got to see what her father built and produced joseph i didn't really know him i learned about him through his daughter i had the privilege of speaking and memorializing him in one of our classes many years ago and based on sarah's input and uh her expressions about her dad and and the things he loved most in life and the things he loved most in life we focused at the time on music and we spoke at length about uh joseph cantona shalom's mr about uh joseph cantona shalom's mr canton's love of music promotion of music promoting it to his family and so on and so on and at the time we spent the whole class and we discussed the place of music in god's creation and it's very interesting because music is a completely different place in the world in in our reality music is not physical and it's not quite spiritual it's that unique thing that sits in the it's that unique thing that sits in the middle and we uh mentioned at the time and number the of the unique elements that that brings with it i wanted to touch on a few of those things tonight as we dedicate this class to joseph benson to mr canton there's a beautiful passage in the gemara that says as follows says that god wanted to make his kia the king

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