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JL;DR SUMMARY Rav Chaim Kanievsky's learning experience about a grasshopper's anatomy, leading to a real-life encounter with the insect, serves as a backdrop for a mirroring moment in Cincinnati, where a Daf Yomi class encounters three goats during a study about goat sacrifices. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Daf YomiTorah StudyAleph InstituteRav Chaim KanievskyTefillinJewish MilitaryGoat SacrificesCzstochowaGravesite Desecration

Places mentioned

Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
"but in what certainly seemed like a Divine message, a Daf Yomi chaburah in Cincinnati, led by Rabbi Yisrael Kaufman, experienced something similar."
Bal Harbour, Florida, United States
"When Major General Borys Kremenetsky, the Defense Attache for the Embassy of Ukraine to the United States of America, arrived in Bal Harbour, Florida to speak at an Aleph Conference"
Czstochowa, Silesia, Poland
"He is buried in Czstochowa, a city in southern Poland on the Warta River, and many visit his gravesite to pray for salvation in merit of this great tzaddik."
Okinawa, Japan
"Chaplain Chaim Roome (stationed at Kadena Air Base, Okinawa), approached him, asking him if he wanted to don tefillin."

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