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Hashem exhorts us to serve Him even when we are showered with good.
We should never, chalilah, forget from where all our bounty came.

Rav Kahana, a disciple of Rav, ascended to Eretz Yisrael to learn Torah
from Rabbi Yochanan. Rav instructed him to hide his vast Torah
knowledge for seven years. He was relocated to the back of the Beit
Hamidrash because he was considered ignorant. Then, he felt the time was
ripe to reveal his greatness.

Why did Rav Kahana consider moving back seven rows as being exiled
for seven years?
Rav Kahana wished to exile himself to a place of Torah. Since he did not
obey his mentor, Rav, perfectly, he was punished by the strictness of
Rabbi Yochanan.

Moshe Rabbeinu taught the nation that throughout the long years of galut,
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