Congratulations! A Completion and Overview of Masechta Sukkah with Notable Acknowledgments

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With the permission of my holy parents and all of the holy rabbis that I really know and many of the influential Torah motivators and life changers that I've had the privilege to spend some time with, I'd like to just quickly finish the Masechta share a Hadron and a Kaddish and say some important words of gratitude and thanks.

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The Vilna Goins Y yard site is actually right now A big Vilna Gunn fan and he says and said quite often, although he was a man of not many words, that there's only two mitzvahs that we do with our entire guf, and that is one.

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Is the mitzvah of living in Eretz, yisrael, ein Shom, the end of K'subas.

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Is it a mitzvah?

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A mitzvah of K'yumas?

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Should we all move now?

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Maybe yes, maybe no, maybe if your Rosh Hashanah was in America, maybe not.

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But a second mitzvah is the mitzvah of sitting inside of a sukkah, one of only two mitzvahs that the entire guf, your entire body, is involved.

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Or, as I like to say, with the very yeshivish ishprach, enveloped inside of, enveloped inside of the.

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That's how people say it.

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So enveloped inside of the enveloped.

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That's a lot of syllables, but the Gemara says that people say it.

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So envelopes Inside of the envelope.

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It's not a lot of syllables, but the Gemara says that in Meshach L'shab, this 118b, that Abaye he asked for his reward Interesting lesson in the Gemara that Hashem should give him back his, give him some reward, because he would make a party for the sages when his student would finish a unit of Torah learning.

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So it's very cool to be able to finish a unit of Torah study and then actually have the sages show up at the event.

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Mesech tesukah is what we're making a Siyam on now.

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Mesech tesukah can be found in the order of the Mishnah, that's in Moed.

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That's all about the laws of the holidays and it is five chapters.

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It is 56 pages folios front and back.

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First chapter deals with some of the most incredible and mind-bending, very pragmatic sugyas about the laws of how it walls and the height of the sukkah and ten tfachim being the minimum amount, and all of the festering that we spent last summer's month involved in with uh reb, chayim's, hechshir, tefanois atzei sukkah and that really we don't care about the walls, it's all about the schach.

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Really.

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It's all about sitting inside of a big old foliage topped hut that exposes you to the elements, because the entire holiday is about faith.

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The entire holiday is about, say about leaving your home and forgetting what number it says in your bank account, and forgetting what people you have in your corner, and forgetting about all of one's gifts or his brains, or his attributes, or his talents or anything else.

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All of that is meaningless and pointless if he doesn't have faith and he doesn't use the most efficacious way of success, which is relying upon the Evishter.

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That's why it's all about the Shach and everything else is Hech Shersukah.

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We learned about Psalah Yoitzeh.

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We learned about the murderous Sugya of Kloish.

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We finished the first chapter and told about yod aleph, and then we ran through it arts girl style, until yod.

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We made a laning on it.

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We read it from page 11 until page 20, where the first chapter ends.

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The second chapter is all about the mitzvah of yeshiva, sukkah.

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Great, we have a sukkah, but what do you do?

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You should eat.

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You should sleep.

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How should you sleep?

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Should you sleep If you're married?

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Does that exempt you?

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Do you find yourself to be exonerated from the entire mitzvah of sukkah, which is a controversial topic in and of itself?

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If you do eat, what can you eat?

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How much should you eat?

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What should you drink If?

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What should you drink if you need to learn.

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If you need to pray, should you do that in the sukkah, outside the sukkah?

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And then we finished off and moved into the third chapter, which was all about the laws of the four species, the four kinds.

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You got to go and gather up god's plants, the vegetation, and put it into a big bundle of joy and walk up to the temple mount and shake it in front of hashem to show that you're happy.

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Until rabbibbe Echad Menzach, I basically said we don't have a temple, so let's just do it for remembering the temple, so we don't forget it.

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Ein Shom, we spent a great deal of El Ozemanda last month, all about a tshuva from the Shagas Aryeh.

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I think it was a great rub in Prague.

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I think it was related to the NehU who-dub.

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I'm not sure, maybe not, but either way, the Shack is already talks about.

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You know, is it seven days?

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That was all Dura.

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Is it all Dura Bunan these days?

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Or is the first day biblical?

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We learned all about why, even as we say here in the South, black dots matter, and if you have even one black dot on your Esserg, on your lemon, on your etrog citron that was the word, not lemon citron then your entire thing is not beautiful at all because it is not considered hadar.

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It's not considered the type of beautiful, happy bundle that you were supposed to have.

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We learned about how you're supposed to go and peel off a piece of a palm tree and put it in the middle and you make a bruch on it because it's the tallest one out of all the four and you stuff on the other side myrtle branches and brook willows it's always my favorite, the brook willow and you put it there also and you together go and smile and say, god, I have all of it.

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We learned about the measurements.

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We learned about how you even have one of your palm frond middle twin leaf in the middle split, even the slightest bit.

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The whole thing can be thrown away because it's not, it's just child's play.

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And then we've moved on to the fourth chapter, which told us all about the Hoshana ceremony and we would march around the Mizbeach.

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We learned about Nisr HaMayim and we learned about how you should pour water upon the altar, and water, no one really knows why, but everyone would rejoice, crazy.

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I mean, people know why, but it's not in the scope of this conversation, or that's what you say.

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If you don't know.

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You just say it's beyond the scope of this conversation, or you say you know, et cetera, et cetera, people know.

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And then we moved into the Suggah of Chinuch and Katanei, adan and Lananei and Stiras and Rambams and Fastingham Kipper.

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And then we moved into the fifth chapter.

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We did that, um over bain is monum, which is the most incredible chapter, which goes into detail.

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Um all about very lively, vibrant pictures, vivid descriptions of what the party was like in the temple, what it was like when all of the sages would get together with their species, taking from from the lowliest things on planet Earth and bringing them all together and having the sages just dance in front of Hashem, all coming inside of the Sukkot.

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We learned about Ikrashir Bekli, ikrashir Bepeh, and singing and celebrating and all those great halachos.

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And now I'm here to tell the tale that if I would uh do kirav or uh um, provoke insight or encourage somebody to pick up a book of talmud to study um it, for me, um, it would always the suggestion.

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Suggestion would be because it's it's not impossible and it's pragmatic and you can imagine things and the laws are clear and the anecdotes, the stories, the moral lessons behind it are ever-flowing and ever-vescent, and that's why I would tell someone to learn Masech HaSukah.

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The plan was to finish Masech HaSukis for this annual Ann Zuckerman Siyam, but Ksoubis is arduous and tedious in the best possible way and we still have the Yed Aleph Thut Khaf of Shtaros.

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We don't want to rush it and, god willing, we'll be done with Star Wars next year and we'll have that celebration of the Ann Zuckerman Memorial Siam in the Bayside, migdash together, and we'll all eat the big Leviathan fish and we will rejoice and we'll be able to watch Ragnar Stein and Rabbi Winder, rabbi Danziger, rabbi Brand and all the holy sages.

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I probably shouldn't have started naming because I need to go through everybody, but everyone knows, and Mr Lefkoe and my father and Rabbi Katz, and yeah, am I getting everyone?

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Oh, and the Rav would go first.

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That's why you don't name.

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I was looking at it this way and I forgot the Rav, but the Rav was first and foremost moving on and anyway it should be soon, and I therefore would like to make the Hadron, which I found in a Sefer that the Hadron is actually could be coming from the word Hadar, which is interesting.

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There's some sort of glory that you're bringing to HaKadosh Baruch Hu's name, and that's part of Sukkot.

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Without further ado, I read you the last couple lines.

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I will spare you the gory details, but we'll finish the Masechda together and then we'll all party.

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Taner HaBana.

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There's a story, because there was a bunch of different people that were called Kohanim, they were priests and they would watch the Bais HaMikdash and make sure everything was done properly.

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Maisa B'mirian Basbilga.

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And there was a girl her name was Miriam Basbilga, but also that was one of the groups of the Kohanim that was in charge of making sure that everything was done properly Shehemira Dossa.

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This young gal decided to become an apostate and deny God's existence and she married out.

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She married an officer that was of Greek nature.

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Things really went downhill fast, because then she eventually was found walking inside of Hashem's holy house and taking her sandal, her shoe, and kicking the holy altar, and she was saying V'omer loikis, loikis, ad mosayata, mechalim emayinim, shel Yisrael, vi'ata oymen, aleim b'shasad chak, you wolf, you wolf.

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A lot of ink is spilled about figuring out why the altar is called a wolf.

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You wolf, you wolf.

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A lot of ink is spilled about figuring out why the altar is called a wolf.

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Maybe Benjamin is the wolf and is in his territory, or other types of things.

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But either way, she was disgracing the holy altar and therefore she was not in a good place in the sages' eyes.

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And when the sages heard that this gal was kicking them as well.

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There are some gifts that you get if you are a holy priest you get to eat some of the good food and you get to have your own exclusive knife for some of the slaughters and you also get to have a place for you to hang up the animal before you cut its head off and sacrifice it.

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And they were embarrassed because the sages said that we are going to make sure that you have no access to yours and you're going to have to start borrowing knives.

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It's going to be embarrassing for your whole group of people because of you, young girl, and your dad's going to have to go get his locker.

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It's going to be locked, so he's going to have to go somewhere else and try to snore a locker and snore a knife and it's not going to be a good look.

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It was basically a punishment for this entire thing.

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And then some say the reason why the whole tribe, this whole group of Kohanim, were punished, because the whole group of Kohanim, they were very melancholic and very lazy, lackadaisical in their eagerness to do Hashem's service.

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So with that laziness, they were also punished.

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Basically, we have this concept that if you do something bad, somebody else should not suffer because of that.

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But yet this seemed to be so egregious.

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So that was done and everyone was now going to have to suffer because of this one girl's bad actions.

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But I don't understand.

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There was two opinions that we said why is it that we're canasting?

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Why is it that these people were locked out and they were embarrassed?

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Is it because the people were lazy and coming?

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The whole tribe was lazy and coming, all these Kohanim or was it because it was this girl who did this one action?

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What was it Now?

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If it's because there was a whole tribe of lazy adults and the Kohanim weren't coming, that makes sense.

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That's why everyone was to be embarrassed, because you were showing disgrace to God's holy temple.

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But if it's just because one girl did one bad action, you're now going to punish the entire Mishmor.

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All the Kohanim of her group are now going to all have to suffer because of her.

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Doesn't make any sense.

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So, omar Abaye, it's not a question.

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This is how life goes In.

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Yeah, it makes sense to punish everybody because of the one girl's action, because this young girl let's just say it as it is young children don't make up their own sayings and doings they got it from somewhere.

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Abaya said if she's doing this rather distasteful action, that means that probably she got it from the adults in the area.

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They probably also were a little bit uninterested in their service.

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So, yeah, it makes sense to punish everyone, because they probably also weren't that in favor of the service.

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Fine, so punish the dad and mom Bilga, let's get her in trouble and let's get mom and dad in trouble.

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But why you got to punish all the Gohanim Wicked people?

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Woe are to them and woe are to their neighbors.

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If you live next to wicked people, it's not good.

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The Torah has some really strict words about living even in a neighborhood of bad people.

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That's why everyone went down with this young girl, because her and her parents, they acted distastefully towards God.

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So everyone of her group of Kohanim was punished.

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Finishes, though, on a happy note, that but good is to the righteous and good are to their neighbors.

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I'm looking to move to somewhere and I'm always like the first thing that goes by.

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Rabbeinu Yonah says is to look for don't look at the house square footage, look for who lives next door, because you're going to be influenced by them.

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And toiv l'tzadik, v'toiv l'shcheno that is good.

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And before I just read the Hadron, everything that is here there has to be just an overpouring of gratitude that I have in my heart to be standing in front of all of you, holy people, today, because I will be a bit specific in this acknowledgement.

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Number one is because my parents.

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They deserve all the credit in the world, and then more because anyone who knows them knows the amount that they have traveled in life from.

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As the Gemara in Sukkah says that maybe I should put my father at the head of the table, because in the place that Balei Tshuva stand, even the holiest sage can't stand in that spot.

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My parents, all the honorifics and all the accolades and this Gemara is most definitely applied to them, and all the accolades and this Gemara is most definitely applied to them, and I wouldn't be here without their help and most definitely their big financial backing of the Colel years that I enjoy now to study.

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I would then like to move on to thank my other set of parents that they live, and literally every single moment of their lives asking themselves what would God want?

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And if they're not sure, then they call their rabbis and they have a lot of them to figure out what it is that God wants.

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They built a home that's based on Torah Judaism and they also stand in the spot that holy rabbis can't, because they're Balei Tshuva to the nth degree and I'm sure God is ever pleased with them and all of their holy doings, and Hashem should bless them with all of the goodness in the world.

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I would also like to take a moment to then put the Bayri Olam above all, because the Bayri Olam goes without saying.

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God Almighty gives me life, he gives me energy and he didn't give me the gift of necessarily how to learn, but it's coming soon.

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But he did give me the gift of energy and took 5-6 months to get this mesechta done and we got it done.

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And I mean the Eberster is like above the whole thing, so it doesn't go into it.

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My holy rabbitson is it's all of what's mine and what's yours is really yours, and the problems are that I give the daily Torah talks and I say it.

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It's harder to live by it, but she takes it literally and you spoke about waking up for Shachar and learning all day.

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So she holds me to it in the most incredible ways every Friday night.

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When we say the words of I believe it's in Mishle of Proverbs we say Friday night of Eshes Chayil, mimsa, who has found a woman of valor?

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I always answer yes to that question.

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It's not a question.

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I have found a woman of valor and she's the only person I know that works harder than me and takes on more jobs in order to keep my behind in the base measure of studying, and all that you see in front of you has been set up by her and obviously my mom has helped out in a great way.

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And, with that being said, all of this chosim and all of the Torah and everything that's going on here should attach itself to my great regal safta that many of you knew.

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Many of you did not know, but she was somebody that, if this generation would have, probably wouldn't look as pathetic as it is, as we have, obviously the decline in morale.

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She was elegant and she was class.

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She represented godless ha'adam.

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She was a big fireball of faith and somebody that didn't always have the easiest way, where she had so many people that loved her, but God gave her, sometimes a body that wouldn't always cooperate, and in his infinite wisdom, we don't know why, but we accept it.

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But she accepted it wholeheartedly and somehow found a way to do it with a big old smile on her face, and still cared about other people more than herself.

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Hajran Allah HaKhalil.

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That is the end of the Hadrons.

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Just in case I didn't finish it, some of it was article up and some of it was learned in depth, so we're not always going to mention God's name, and that's by choice.

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I'll be the Chazanish and asking one of my Rebbein no-transcript.

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