The Joy of Judaism...it is NOT hard to be Jewish

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

it is well known that our grandparents and great-grandparents when they came from europe in the early 1900s they came to these shores to north america were faced with a dilemma could they keep the sabbath in the golden medina in the streets of golden of america and they were told that if they did not come and report for work on saturday they would have to look for a new job on monday morning and so many times people had jobs job after job after job and were fired because they refused to work on saturday this took a toll on them on friday afternoons they faced this dilemma when they go to work on saturday morning and break the tradition of their fathers or would they continue working on saturday and keep their jobs to support their families what an excruciating dilemma and many a father would come into their home plop down into a chair and say it's ver it's difficult to be jewish their children or our parents said if it's so sweet to be a heat if it's so difficult to be jewish why keep these laws let's assimilate let's be like everybody else and therefore in the past two generations we've lost 90 percent of those who used to keep shabbos and keep observance and jewish law in europe now we only have 10 percent of the population keeping shabbos 10 or 12 and much and much of the generation has lost its connection to judaism because of

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1. 0:00it is well known that our grandparents and great-grandparents when they came from europe in the…
2. 0:31and were fired because they refused to work on saturday this took a toll on them…
3. 1:02or our parents said if it's so sweet to be a heat if it's so difficult…
4. 1:33this transition from europe to america and the sweatshops and difficulty keeping sabbath in the face…
5. 2:36said when the father gives a blessing on friday night how come it is so loveless…
6. 3:06but it becomes so routine so perfunctory so ordinary that he misses the kiss misses or…
7. 3:40it is lost so many times i said to myself do i do that do i…
8. 4:46you have such warmth and kindness and love i love you so much i'm so proud…
9. 5:18i enjoyed it very much i love you and every friday night for the past 30…
10. 5:49one way in which we can rebuild what we lost to rebuild that disconnection through connection…

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