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Shabbat Sermon: The Magic Spoon with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Shabbat Sermon: The Magic Spoon with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
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14 minutes
Released:
Apr 17, 2021
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Podcast episode
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I want to tell you a story about a magic spoon. The story comes from a different time and place, the 1870s in a town in Romania called Stefanesti, where there was an illustrious Hasidic dynasty. The most famous of these Hasidic masters was Rabbi Avrohom Mattisyou Friedman, who became the Second Shtefaneshter Rebbe in 1869 and continued for 64 years. He was considered a hidden tzaddik who could effect miracles. The most famous of these miracle stories concerns a Hasid who comes to see the Rebbe because his daughter had typhus. She was desperately ill. She had very little time left. Rebbe, only a miracle can save her. What happens next is told in a history of this Hasidic dynasty:
Released:
Apr 17, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
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