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What does the Gemara mean that Rabbi Akiva’s students “לא נהגו כבוד זה לזה” and that losing those 12,000 pairs of students caused the world to be desolate? How did Rabbi Akiva’s 5 new students act as a tikun for the 24,000 students who passed away?

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Recorded at OU Israel’s L’Ayla Rosh Chodesh Women’s Event