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Can We Talk About the Draft Without Hating Each Other?

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R' Shlomo Katz

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You know, let's sing this niggan. This niggan is I want to dedicate for the refu of my dear brother, our dear brother Yonathan Razelle Hashem. He is doing better, but scared the daylights out of out of all of us. The tikort scared the daylights out of all of us earlier this week. Um, and he loves this nigga. [singing] D B I am [singing] I am la. Heat. Heat. [singing] Mat D la. My Lord [singing] is [singing] I [singing] >> [singing] >> continue learning this whole week. >> We have what we're learning today. If you think that the stuff on Monday and last week was going to stir you up, this is going to stir you up even more. However, as a hakadama, like we did with last things as well, we're here to learn a suga. We're not here to form opinions and we're not here to just share what we think about people that aren't doing what we think they should be doing. Imagine people go into a tire like that and that's like with that headsp space and then they approach learning the gas which has prepared for us the inside to understand what the what the issue is at hand. Obviously you you know what the assumption of today's topic will be just by seeing the title. [snorts] But we have to learn it inside to learn these things inside. That's what we're doing here. It's very easy to not learn it inside and feel very good about our opinions. That doesn't that's not what we're doing here. We're trying what we would call someone would even call this libon which is to really to really takeim understand it implement them and practically see where is it today in our lives. Um there there are a lot of hagdamas we

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  1. 0:00You know, let's sing this niggan. This niggan is I want to dedicate for the refu
  2. 5:01Wow, I'm really biting my tongue today. This is good. This is good. It's very good.
  3. 10:34perfected the inan of after this census of counting all those that went out to war
  4. 15:33Levy wasn't included in this either. You understand? I'm in just because of explaining where they're
  5. 20:54I'll tell you though sometimes actually when I d and I want to be like a
  6. 26:33What the Rambam just tell us over here. It's actually a very strange description. I heard
  7. 31:21>> we have a genealogy of that. >> Yeah. But they're saying we the Lim today
  8. 36:38time when self-defense mode means that in order to justify why I believe what I believe
  9. 41:20together. We sat in the office for half an hour and barely got through one or
  10. 46:46could get spit on right if you weren't. >> Okay. >> It was really interesting when

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