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Rabbi Daniel Kalish

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The way always to learn Tyra any Tyra is throw that you want to learn. The way to learn Tyra is to ask questions and from the place of questions you get to answers. A question has to bother you. It has to [clears throat] like something's off. From that place of questions answers come. A speaker, a friend of mine once asked me to critique his his sheer. He gave me to critique his his sheer. He gave lectures and he said critique my sheer. Listen to my speech and tell me what I do wrong. And I told him he doesn't sell his questions. He asks and answers and talks and he doesn't sell his question. Now, I look like an actor. What's he supposed to do? Like sell my question? I'm just an honest guy, you know. I'm not like looking to perform. He's making a tremendous mistake. If there's not tension in the room, if a If there's not tension in the room, if a listener does not annoyed by the question you have, there's no answer. They never come to an answer. Nothing was schwer. You'll see, by the way, if you ever give a speech, the way to teach anything in the world is to ask a question that's frustrating. If there's no tension of the question, what you're teaching won't go in. That's what is like a cute thing a speaker asks a kasha every speaker. Let me ask you if I want that possuk to go into my

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  1. 0:01The way always to learn Tyra any Tyra is throw that you want to learn. The
  2. 5:05to the pizza shop. A car is a solution to get there. Questions are not the
  3. 10:15impossible? What's happening? What's happening? It went What are you talking about that such a thing
  4. 15:21it's simple. That's a strange thing. So this kasha I've been bothered for many years and
  5. 20:28No Shaychis. You haven't been home in years. You haven't called. Just make a dial home.
  6. 25:50puts out rare seforim. >> [clears throat] >> He publishes rare seforim. He has crazy stories
  7. 30:56on their own. Almost naturally, things that happen on their own, and things flow and happen.
  8. 36:02Reconciliation, I'm interested. I want in. I want in. So, I'd like to think he karav
  9. 41:44stop sign. It was the last month of last year. Something's like off in our last
  10. 46:53world higher than this man. High We live in a world of connection to Hashem. In

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