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Tu B’shvat The Power of Blessings
Rabbi Yehuda Prero
Written in: 1999
Rabbi Prero writes a wonderful Dvar Torah on saying blessings before eating. In the book of Yeshaya the Jews are compared to a worm; Rabbi Prero discusses why that is and relates it to blessings ending off with a beautiful lesson.
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