Our Only Child | Rabbi Daniel Osher Kleinman

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

There was a girl who was born with a medical condition. Double inlet, left ventricle, pulmonary atresia. Essentially, her heart only had three chambers, and she underwent multiple surgeries to create a fourth chamber in her heart. And although the surgery was successful, it took a toll on her body. Eventually, she was zoche to make it through school and to grow up and to get married. But the doctors warned her, Your body is fragile and you can only have one child. The toll that a pregnancy will take is going to destroy your body, if you have more than one child. And this young woman eventually became pregnant, and when she found out the news, she was elated. And she told herself, I am going to make this the most important mission in my life. And I'm going to do it right, and I'm going to make sure not to eat anything that could be detrimental, not to do anything that could be detrimental, not to, Chas v’Shalom, put that child developing within me in any sort of remote danger. The Chofetz Chaim teaches us that each and every one of us in this world have a spiritual body developing within us.

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1. 0:07There was a girl who was born with a medical condition. Double inlet, left ventricle, pulmonary…
2. 0:37if you have more than one child. And this young woman eventually became pregnant, and when…
3. 1:07It's a state of pregnancy. And the Chofetz Chaim says that the Mitzvos that we have…
4. 1:37When we look at דברים שבקדושה, you look at a הגבהה, with the words of the…
5. 2:10The eyes of your spiritual body have just been infused with an incredible burst of energy,…
6. 2:40and we can make a choice to look or to turn away, turn away and enable…

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