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@OshiBloom
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i didn’t have any time to read anything over shabbos. bh i was busy becoming a father. born early shabbos morning in yerushalayim ir hakodesh.
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i often have serious doubts on if i should stay on here and share torah. like does anybody really care? i almost deleted my twitter last week. but someone out of the blue came up to me at wedding and said they follow me on here and love what i post.
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i’m absolutely shocked right now. my 7th grade ivrit teacher at sar academy. i remember his class vividly. we all loved him. heartbreaking.
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יוסי הרשקוביץ, מנהל תיכון אורט פלך בנים בירושלים, הוא אחד מהנופלים בקרבות בעזה. הרשקוביץ היה איש חינוך מוכר, והותיר אחריו אישה ו-5 ילדים. במסר מרגש ששלח מעזה לתלמידיו הוא אמר: "אני מתגעגע לכולכם, מקווה לראות אתכם בקרוב. עם ישראל יישאר מאוחד ומרגש כמו שהוא עכשיו" @VeredPelman
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look at rabbi feiner’s answer to the question of if you could have a chavrusa with anyone who would it be h/t rabbi mirzoeff
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3 months
i love living in the land of israel
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what’s your favorite picture of the rebbe? i think this is mine. he just looks so cool.
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2 years
bh she agreed to no stuffed chicken shavua tov
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2 years
I WILL NOT HAVE STUFFED CHICKEN. let it be known.
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bh he’s already a na nach
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2 months
rav weinberger once shared an amazing story about rebbe aharon of belz zy'a: The Belzer Rebbe was a tzaddik yesod olam. When he escaped Europe, he settled in Tel Aviv. Not Yerushalayim, not Bnei Brak, Tel Aviv.
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2 years
not sure who will get this but i view uncle iroh as a chassidic rebbe
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6 months
please stop what you are doing and take a few minutes to listen to what eytan’s grandfather said at eytan’s funeral tonight (in english)
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Baruch Dayan HaEmet This was 21 year old Staff Sgt. Eytan Dishon, of the Givati Brigade's reconnaissance unit, from Jerusalem who was killed in action in Gaza May his memory be for a blessing
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2 years
no big deal, just ishay ribo and rav goldwicht hanging out in the heights
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One December, Rav Yaakov Kamenetsky zt”l, asked his students what their New Year’s Resolutions were. The students were shocked: “Rebbe, this isn’t the Jewish new year!” He responded,
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Someone once told Rav Kook, “God willing, we will move to the land of Israel.” Rav Kook replied, “God is certainly willing.  What counts is that you be willing.”
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2 years
"you can't get any more seforim" "ok fine. can i get some cook books for us?" "what? um yeah sure, we actually need some of those." "ok great i'll do that now." *orders 5 rav kook seforim*
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so on erev shabbos i found out that my 85 year old grandfather quietly and humbly goes to aroma in beit shemesh every day to pack sandwiches for chalayim and i’m not surprised at all because he is the best.
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2 years
why not serve the shmorg food the whole time
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when asked about his success in the study of torah, the klausenberger rebbe zy’a responded in the following way: "in my youth I was considered a bright and diligent student. how did I accomplish this? i tricked my yetzer hara. other children made great plans at
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i once again didn’t have any time to read anything over shabbos as it was the bris of my son, יאיר יוסף, named after yosef guedalia hy’d and yossi hershkovitz hy’d. here’s what I said today at the bris about his name:
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i didn’t have any time to read anything over shabbos. bh i was busy becoming a father. born early shabbos morning in yerushalayim ir hakodesh.
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“The entire country is using this as a time for self-reflection and self-improvement, and we won’t?!
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1 year
if you are reading this tweet then please stop what you are doing and watch this clip of our captain sharing an amazing story about him and his father
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tonight/tmrw is pesach sheini. this lubavitcher rebbe letter about pesach sheini is a must read.
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Jewish wealth is not houses and money. Jewish wealth, which is eternal, is the observance of Torah and mitzvos, and bringing children and grandchildren into the world who will observe the Torah and its mitzvos. rebbe rayatz zy'a
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do i think it’s the coolest thing ever that the doctor who helped our baby wears tzitzis, has a beard and peyos, and davened maariv in the same minyan as me? yes. do i think it’s the coolest thing ever that every other word out of the midwives mouths is bez”H? yes.
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i feel so strongly tonight with every fiber of my being that there is no greater zechus than being a part of this holy nation and that there is no greater zechus than living in this holy land
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2 years
obviously we should be dan l’kaf zechus but saying al hagefen after havdala has to be in the top 5 things we forget to do
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10 months
please take a minute to watch this rav biderman video
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1 year
🤯
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2 years
im going to take some time off on here as i settle into married life, but before i do that i would like to publicly say that @Eitankatzmusic is absolutely incredible and you should have him at your simcha
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the kotzker rebbe zy'a has a great vort on this pasuk the word מסכה also means mask you shall not make God a “mask” for yourself. do not make your religious practice into a lifeless representation, a routine covering your consciousness like a mask.
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i absolutely love this story
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2 years
to whom it may concern, your uman rosh hashana joke is not funny. this is war. it’s not a joke. 😘
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for those want to get drunk on purim but do not like alcohol, rav yaakov moshe charlap (6th volume of mei marom) writes that it’s possible to get drunk on mitzvos.
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i was learning daf with my son yesterday and i asked him if he had any questions on what we learned and he was silent. bh he still remembers everything from the womb.
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whenever i see this picture, i imagine him saying to me: “nu, come here. everything is going to be ok”
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11 months
🤣 according to nefesh binefesh you can’t be both modern orthodox and frum
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6 years
Some thoughts on my depression and how chassidus helped me...
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i have a teacher who starts off his day learning a sefer about marriage to remind himself that all of the torah that he learns that day should make him a better husband and father and that if it doesn't then something is broken in how he is learning.
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yom kippur is yom ki-purim, it’s like purim. the implication is that purim is higher than yom kippur. why is it higher? yom kippur atones those who repent. purim atones for everyone, even if you haven’t repented yet. rav yisrael of ruzhin zy’a
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2 years
every guy when a girl asks him how often he washes his tzitzis
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anybody in washington right now or on their way, you are writing a chapter in jewish history. kol hakavod.
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shopping for shabbos in osher ad and hearing an announcement that mincha will take place in 5 minutes in the shul in the supermarket will never get old. i love living here.
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הנני מוכן ומזומן
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3 months
this lubavitcher rebbe vort/story is awesome
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3 months
One day, as Rav Shlomo Zalman was walking down the street in the Shaarei Chesed neighborhood of Yerushalayim where he lived, he crossed paths with an older woman, an almanah, widow, who was coming out of the local makolet.
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it gave me so much chizzuk. i decided to keep my twitter and continue posting. why am i saying all of this? if you follow someone on here and enjoy what they post, let them know. especially if you ever see them in person. it’s really empowering.
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thinking about how every time i change the baby’s diaper he starts crying and i’m like i know you’re upset but it’s good for you and how there must be things in my life that really bother me and make me cry and Hashem is just like osh i know you’re upset but it’s good for you
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saw a beautiful torah from the rebbe today: The Torah mainly uses two Hebrew words for "speaking." The first (dibur) is reserved for "hard speech," the straightforward, accurate delivery of the message. The second (amirah) is "soft speech," i.e., tailoring the message to
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friends. there's an amazing purim torah from the shem mishmuel zy'a and i want to share it. the gemara in gittin says that the grandsons of Haman taught Torah in Bnei Brak. How did Haman HaRasha merit bearing descendants who taught Torah?
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i tried reading this over shabbos but i mostly spent the time stressing out about the fact that i’m moving to israel in 4 days and showing up on a thursday evening to an empty apartment with nothing but a couch and then starting a new job a few days later anyways, shavua tov
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rebbe nachman writes that no matter how much we have fallen asleep spiritually speaking, hearing stories of the righteous wakes us up. rebbe nosson: megillas esther wakes us up and reminds us that even if it looks like our enemies are about to defeat us, it's all going to be ok
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a man came to the baal shem tov. his son was struggling with yiddishkeit. he had gone off the derech. he asked the baal shem tov for advice. the baal shem tov said to love him even more. eventually, the son returned to his roots.
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1 year
was it worth it? that shabbos afternoon nap that will keep you up the whole night?
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a kollel young man consulted the steipler gaon zt'l for guidance in his torah learning. having received the steipler's advice, the young man was about to leave, when the steipler called him back. "i see that you are a masmid," the steipler said. "you must also remember to help
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10 months
rumor has it this was the last tisha bi’av
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1 year
pretty wild that in the next few weeks im going to book tickets to israel and they are going to be one-way tickets bh
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“They are angels,” he used to whisper. “Not one of us knows how to appreciate or value them properly.” rav aryeh levin zy’a on chayalim. a tzaddik in our time pg 187
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we don’t talk enough about how scary it is to sneeze while driving
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2 years
because my father just asked me to take out the trash, taking out the trash is now a religious act yiddishkeit is the best
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and the second these Jews hear the shofar of Moshiach, they’re going to throw off this disguise and scream out ‘Shema Yisrael Hashem Elokeinu Hashem Echad.’
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purim is a day that we can ask for anything. the angels said that’s not fair. they can ask for the geulah to come and that would be it. so Hashem said ok fine. i’ll tell them to get drunk so that they won’t remember how powerful the day is. chiddushei harim zy'a
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the whole point of zechiras amalek is to focus all of the hate in our heart towards one thing (amalek) so that there is no room to hate any member of klal yisrael rav yaakov moshe charlap zt’l
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reminder that tefillah works and that every word you daven to Hashem makes a big difference.
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2 years
someone once visited the brisker rav and introduced themselves as a doctor. brisker rav: what kind of doctor are you? what is your medical specialty? person: i have a doctorate in tanach, i am a doctor in tanach. brisker rav: “ubber tanach nit krank—tanach doesn’t get sick”
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one of the perks of having this on my computer is that it leads many students to ask “who is that” which leads to a conversation about the rebbe which leads to a conversation about chabad which leads to a conversation about chassidus which leads to a conversation about Hashem
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why have an apple on your computer when you can have a rebbe
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imagining a kid who is learning the tanya very intensely for the first time rebbe walks in, “hey tzadik!” talmid: “IM A BEINONI AT BEST!”
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2 years
a good cry is a mikvah for the soul
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1 year
bez”h the next time we fly here it will be for good
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a conversation with rav mendel futerfas zy'a: What was it like in the [Soviet] labor camps? They were days of light. Are you speaking euphemistically? No, I mean it simply. Those were the most inspiring days of my life. How so?
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you get to choose four portraits of tzaddikim to hang up in your home. who are you choosing? quote tweet your answer
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1 year
looking at pictures of holy people helps
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i think about this story quite often now that I have a kid rabbi shlomo freifeld was the best
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once the berditchever remained standing at his pulpit from morning till night without moving his lips. earlier he had issued a warning to God: “if You refuse to answer our prayers, i shall refuse to go on saying them.”
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throughout yom kippur we talk about how Hashem knows all our thoughts and desires and all the things we want to do, and we generally understand that in a negative light, but perhaps it also means that Hashem knows that deep down all we want to do is to do the right thing
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2 years
you can be jewish and prefer dairy. don’t be embarrassed. shavuos is your holiday.
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to anyone else who struggles with not remembering things they have read, here is a comforting quote from emerson: i cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.
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this teaching gives me a tremendous amount of chizzuk
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master of the world it is too hard for us to get ready for chanukah. there is too much going on. even though we can’t properly prepare this month, please help us access some of the ohr of chanukah so that there can be some ohr during these times of intense darkness am yisrael
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this morning rav schachter received some adorable visitors and took the time to speak to each one of them
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noach didn’t believe in himself. he didn’t believe that he could be mevatel the gezeirah with his tefillah. don’t make that mistake. believe in the power of tefillah. it is the greatest weapon in the fight against our enemies.
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In the summer of 1982, Shlomo Auman, zichrono levracha, a kollel student and soldier in Tzahal at the Hesder Yeshiva, Yeshivat Shalavim, fell in battle during the early weeks of the first Lebanon War. His father is Prof. Yisrael Auman, an American oleh who won the Nobel prize in
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אל נא תקברני במצרים Hashem, please help me not be buried in small mindedness, please help me see the bigger picture of each human being
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the kotzker explains לא תגנב as you are not allowed to steal from yourself, you cannot be harsh to yourself and ruin your potential.
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with the help of the Master of the World, we’re excited to announce the release of our new song 🥳🥳🥳 spotify: apple music: youtube: we hope you enjoy (mutar to dance while listening 🕺🏻)
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מי כעמך ישראל
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מי כעמך ישראל
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the sar high school seniors are on their senior ditch day today. the minhag is to email your teachers a ridiculous email explaining why you didn’t come to school the school has all the yearbooks so i went to go read mine good times…
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a wedding registry but it’s for seforim
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someone who assisted rav moshe feinstein for a number of years once asked him. “why does the rosh yeshiva permit phone calls to disturb his learning during the day? would it not be more practical to accept calls at specific hours only? rav moshe replied, “there is a trace of
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this is one of the most important pieces of torah that i have ever learned zy”a
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23 Adar: R'Yitzchak Meir Alter of Ger, the Chidushei HaRim (1799-1866). The founder of Gerer dynasty. Grandfather of the Sfas Emes.
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if we accept Hashem no matter what, during the good times and during the rough times, then Hashem will accept us no matter what, during our good times and during our rough times. tzaddikim of slonim zy’a also, you must own a nesivos shalom purim packet. sweetest of the sweet.
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hi friends. This summer, Moshava hopes to bring around 80 Israeli campers from the North and South who have been displaced from their homes to give them an amazing and meaningful summer experience.
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i’ve been at moshava for 13 straight summers and tonight is my last night for a while (maybe (hopefully) we’ll be back one day) and i just want to say that we may never be able to pay back those places or people that made us who we are but we can live with the ideals that they
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rav biderman shared this amazing story this week: There was a bachur who was thrown out of his yeshiva. The Klausenberger Rebbe zt'l spoke to the bachur, and he promised to improve his ways. The Klausenberger Rebbe immediately called for a meeting with the yeshiva's mashgiach.
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2 years
gut purim.
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this purim torah from the piaseczna rebbe zy'a hy'd is unfortunately extremely relevant this year
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מי כעמך ישראל
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if you have never read the story about one god and two worlds, please do yourself a favor and read this zy’a
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10 Shvat: R'Yosef Yitzchak Schneerson, the Rebbe Rayatz (1880-1950). The Frierdiker Rebbe became the 6th Lubavitcher Rebbe after the petira of his father the Rebbe Rashab in 1920. Author of countess works including Sefer Hasichos. Father-in-law of R'Menachem Mendel Schneerson.
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heard a version of this story a few years ago on tisha b’av and think about it every year since
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