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The Lost Princess Prayer (Tefillas Bas-Melech) is a wide-ranging tefillah companion to R' Yaakov Klein's bestselling book, "The Story of Our Lives". This beautiful work provides the reader with the unique experience of "davening" each chapter of the book, ensuring that we are immediately able to implement the lessons on an emotional level.

As the viceroy in Rebbe Nachman's iconic tale slowly extracts the lost princess from her captivity by emulating her traits, let's mirror this process by turning Torah into tefillah, reclaiming the soul of our tradition.

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Tree in a House

This home has an added amenity in its kitchen aside for the oven and stove. The home for sale in Gulfport, Florida, is also home to a giant Oaktree in the middle of the kitchen.

Stacey Purcell, owner of Gulfport Realty, said the “tree house” has proven difficult to sell due to the massive, centuries-old tree that passes through

“There were people who walked in and walked out,” she said.

Purcell noted that the house is “perfect” for a city with the motto: “Keep Gulfport weird.”

“We have a lot of tree huggers here,” she said. “I’m surprised I haven’t sold this to a tree hugger.”

The house is currently priced at $899,000.

Take it or leave it.

Bunch of Hot Air

Organizers of a hot air balloon festival were floating on air this week when they announced that they were awarded a Guinness World Record for launching 524 balloons at the same time.

The organizers of the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta said they originally set the record for greatest mass hot air balloon ascent in 2010, when 329 balloons were launched at once.

The festival broke its own record the following year with 345 balloons, but the record was then taken by a French event that featured more than 400 balloons.

Paul Smith, the executive director of the Balloon Fiesta, said organizers decided to stop pursuing the record after it was claimed by the event in France, but organizers realized after the 2019 launch featured 524 balloons that they may have broken the record unintentionally.

Tom Garrity, a spokesman for the festival, said he reached out to Guinness late last year to see if the documentation from the 2019 event would be sufficient to claim the record, and organizers have now received word from the record-keeping organization that their application has been approved.

Want to be part of another skyhigh adventure? The 2021 Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta is scheduled to begin October 2.

Sounds like a breath of fresh air.

Benny’s Spot

A retired World War II vet was treated to a birthday party at a most unusual spot: Stop & Shop.

Benny Ficeto was being feted for his 100th birthday. His former employer, the Stop & Shop in Edison, New Jersey, pulled out all the stops for the former serviceman.

Aside from the friends and family who joined, Benny enjoyed a patriotic singing group and a cake. For an extra-special birthday present, Benny was presented with a veterans-only parking spot in his honor.

“Benny’s Spot” will help give veterans easy access to the store, Stop & Shop spokesperson Stefanie Shuman explained.

“It says in honor of Benny for his service to the store and his country,”

she said.

Benny worked bagging groceries at register four or five at the Edison store for four years; prior to that, he worked for eight years at a location in Bloomingdale, New Jersey.

“People would wait in line even if there was an open register, they would wait because they wanted Benny to bag their groceries,” Shuman said of the beloved worker.

“Working at my age gives you purpose,” Benny told his former coworkers.

This is not the first time Benny celebrated his birthday in Stop & Shop style. Last year, Stop & Shop threw him a drive-by car parade to mark his 99th birthday.

It hits the spot.

World’s Largest Oreo

A 95-year-old grandmother and her grandson may have just made the world’s largest Oreo.

The black and white confection is 180 pounds and 4-feet wide.

The duo, social media star “Gangster Granny” and her grandson Ross Smith, made the attempt at the gargantuan cookie in early August. They have yet to hear back from the Guinness World Records for confirmation, but they were attempting to beat the current record holder, a 161-pound, 13-ounce Oreo baked at a Bahrain factory in 2018.

The giant cookie was made with 72 pounds of butter, 25 pounds of pure sugar, 34 pounds of powdered sugar, 15 pounds of cocoa powder, 25 pounds of all-purpose flour, 90 eggs, 1.5 cups of vanilla, salt, and baking soda.

According to Smith, it took 24 hours for him, his grandma, and their baking team to create the massive crème-filled wafer cookie.

“This has been one of the best experiences I have had in a long time, to see how amazing the cookie turned out. And oh boy was it delicious,” said Granny, 95. “It’s going to take me another 95 years of life to finish this thing unless I get some help.”

Granny came up with the idea to make the giant cookie because she was hungry.

Smith had another goal.

“My grandma and I have been making videos on the internet for over nine years now. We have over 65 million followers across all platforms,” Smith said. “Our goal every day when we wake up is to make the world smile. And what better way to do so than to make the world’s biggest Oreo?”

He added, “It was a blast to make and tasted even better. I am happy that I can share moments like this with my grandma while she’s young. It puts a smile to my face every time we can tackle a project like this together.”

Hope there’s a huge cup of milk waiting for them when they dig in.