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The more the world changes, the more we find comfort in things that never change.

This is Rabbi Daniel Lapin on demand on the Blaze Radio Network.

Hello, everybody, and welcome to the Rabbi Daniel Laffin Show.

Thanks so much for being tuned in, and thanks for being part of the show where I, your

rabbi, reveal how the world really works.

Well, two weeks ago, an interesting thing happened in Boston.

A 55-foot tree arrived to be the Christmas tree for this year on Boston Common.

And this beautiful, tall spruce tree was shipped to Boston all the way from Halifax, Nova Scotia in Canada.

As it was last year, and a year before, and a year before that.

Why?

Well, the custom began way back in actually 1917.

And this past week is not only the 76th anniversary of Pearl Harbor Day, not only this week do we observe the fact that exactly 76 years ago, one Saturday morning, on December the 7th, America woke up to a shock greater than the shock we all felt that Tuesday morning, September the 11th, 2001.

I say greater because... morning, September the 11th, 2001.

I say greater because it was unexpected.

At least we suspect it was unexpected.

There are reasons to believe that President Roosevelt might have been aware of it and allowed it to happen in order to change public opinion in America in favor of the war.

But that's a different discussion.

For now, we're just looking at the fact that 76 years ago was the incredible shock of Pearl Harbor, but a bit

before that, exactly 100 years ago this week, 100 years ago exactly this last Wednesday,

the biggest non-nuclear explosion of all time occurred in the harbor of Halifax, Nova Scotia.

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