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The Fourth Of July (Ep. 334)

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Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky

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Hi, this is David Alowski and welcome to the Rabbi Alowski show. And whether you're watching with our friends over at Tory Time, wherever you watch or listen to your podcast, as always, we are very excited to have you along for the experience. I've said this many times, but I cannot begin to tell you what a cover it is for me that people take out time to from their busy schedule. There are so many podcasts. There's so many things that people can listen to and uh the fact that you take out time to spend that time with me and listen to what I have to say I think is a tremendous thing. I'm so happy that there are people who feel that I have something to contribute and are interested in listening to what I have to say. Laavd the New York Times when Mosha Feinstein was nifa they wrote how did you become the leading pisador he says people ask me questions I guess they like the answers so they kept coming back so I know a lot of people who have tried doing this and it's surprisingly difficult to get an audience uh for the sort of thing that we do here the fact that people have been following me for you know these years and and people suddenly stumble on the show and go back. It's it's more than I can possibly ever put into words how much I appreciate it. And every now and then I meet somebody who says, "I'm sure you

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