A Desperate Plea from Rabbi Mintz for Yom Kippur

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Chaim Mintz’s own words— taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

to a great dismay we're living in a generation that the Torah is not known to most Jewish people they have no idea what the Torah is all about the the word Torah what's written in the Torah some type of antiquated funny ideas they don't have no idea what what's all about they wrong Impressions that be they fed to them but who knows who Torah that would we live by what makes a je with to Jew the Torah who who studies Torah not nearly enough as it should be not nearly enough as it used to be and that's up to us to change that I think probably every year I get up and speak I probably say over but I think it's worthwhile saying it I met the Jew that said to me I don't believe in the Torah said to him you don't believe in the Torah did you ever study Genesis no first book of Moses Exodus the second book of Moses no Leviticus the third book of Moses no numbers the fourth book of no Deuteronomy the fifth book of no never studied the whole Torah how about mishna the the no the the talmud no the medish no so what don't you believe in I said to him he's totally ignorant of any thing of Torah never studied anything doesn't believe in it you hear that people study Torah the eyes are opened up they're fascinated absolutely in ecstasy they study Torah they see the the great ideas the depth the warmth the excitement of studying Torah I've studied t with professional people

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6. 3:06days God's reaching out hand to us to Chua come back search for me look for…
7. 3:37advantage of all the different ways to study Torah today one of them we we offer…
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9. 4:39want to come back to you we want to be different we want to take upon…
10. 5:10whether it's the light candles in chabas whether the most Pious person will be more careful…

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