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Why I almost killed someone in Ukraine... - Chilling encounter from the Ba'al Shem Tov's Beit Din

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Rabbi Alon Anava

Why I almost killed someone in Ukraine... - Chilling encounter from the Ba'al Shem Tov's Beit Din

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[Music] foreign [Music] everybody hope you had a wonderful Channel I wish you now before we start I'm humbly asking you to turn your phones off and today we're gonna have a very interesting class you are in for a treat and another humble request of mine is no comments no questions no ooze no Oz silence that's what I'm humbly requesting from you because I'm not going to answer any of your questions and I'm not going to turn to any of the oohs you can do quietly okay uh it's a very intense story what I'm about to tell you and any disturbances won't uh won't fit well so I was in Oman for the ones of you who didn't know and I came back with some stories and if you remember years back when I used to travel all the time then every time I would travel for a tour of lectures come back with 20 20 lectures full of material because that's when you get the material when you go out to the world is to read from a book anybody can read from a book so needless to say the adventure was uh definitely an adventure definitely a lot of material to talk about but today I chose to talk about a certain story a certain event that happened throughout the trip that I found not only powerful moving intense and crazy but also has a very powerful message and and like the place that it happened it

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  1. 0:00[Music] foreign [Music] everybody hope you had a wonderful Channel I wish you now before we
  2. 6:23people tell me that's what I heard in Oman maybe five thousand times you don't know
  3. 12:48show with the plan my plan is not to reveal all the cards because you won't
  4. 19:09only long I would get in trouble with the police I had numerous cases in the
  5. 25:43chabadnik and putting filling or or sitting in a Shiva with a mishna my juva was
  6. 32:19even lose it but got upset like in a very bad way maybe three times some
  7. 38:43they came out the same I don't hold by a group all the groups are great
  8. 45:06like a little kid brought to Toys R Us now throughout the year how the vacation
  9. 51:36the knife in the ark or what the chief chief chief okay you know what I
  10. 58:01not only discussing what they were saying like uh it doesn't I actually don't want to

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