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Yehuda Zelmanovitz

Yehuda Zelmanovitz

Torah scholar and recurring guest on the "5 Minutes of Torah" podcast, delivering short daily divrei Torah; alumnus of Yeshiva Ohr Yisrael under Rabbi Avraham Zucker.

Oct 8, 2026

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So we have just finished the progression of the Yamim Tovim, starting with the Yamim Nerayim, Rosh Hashanah, and Yom Kippur, followed by Sukkot, Shemini Atzeret, and Simchas Torah.
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And now we're on to our daily routine, the daily grind.
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And the process of finding the teshuva that we started with on the Yamim Nerayim is something that we need to take into our daily routine.
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And the question is, what is the way that one can do that? And I believe the answer is something that we say three times a day in the tefillah of HaShivenu, where we ask Hashem, ברכת השם הרצה בשובה.
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We ask him, ברכה זרינה בשובה שלמה לפנחה.
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But it's very interesting.
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Good afternoon.
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There's an incredible Gemara in Sanhedrin tatzadik beis mabeis, where Nebuchadnezzar takes Chananya, Mishael, and Azariah and throws them into the fiery furnace because they refuse to bow down to his idol.
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At the same time, Hakadosh Baruch Hu tells Yechezkel Hanavi to go to the valley of Dura and to perform techias hameisim and bring the dead back to life.
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The Gemara says that bones come flying over and smack Nebuchadnezzar in the face.
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Nebuchadnezzar asks in amazement, "What was that?" And they tell him, "The friend of those three men you threw into the furnace is now in the valley of Dura bringing the dead back to life." Think about what Nebuchadnezzar is experiencing.
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He has just seen Chananya, Mishael, and Azariah survive the fiery furnace, and now he hears that Yechezkel is performing techias hameisim.

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