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Parshat Chayei Sarah - 5780 "Change your Life in Ten Minutes"

Change Your Life in 10 Minutes   Chayei Sarah 5780  Rabbi Shaanan Gelman with Rabbi Ariel Rackovsky Several years ago, I visited the site of the Wannsee Conference, the infamous event in which, over the span of two hours, the elite of the Nazi Party formulated the plan for the extermination of 6,000,000 of our brethren.   After touring the room in which the worst atrocity in history was born, I stepped outside, overwhelmed by the gravity of what I had just ingested - and our group realized that it was nearly time to daven mincha.   In a few more minutes the sun would set and we would lose the opportunity.   We had the numbers to form a quorum, that was not our problem, the only question which plagued us was whether it was appropriate to pray at the location of such pure evil?   We further realized that in order to face east, we would have to stand facing the cursed structure while reciting the amida .   After a few moments of uncomfortable debate, we recognized that we had no