Good News, Bad News and Doubt

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

i have never in my life gotten so many phone calls i have to say this is very sad in the last six months i cannot tell you how many people have called me that their daughter or their son is dating a non-jew now i'm talking about i'm not talking about the assimilated modern jew i'm talking about the borough park flatbush williamsburg normal baltimore lakewood normal from homes and this was something that was just such a no-no it was like you know chavez all this other stuff but we're not married not into marrying can i tell you how many broken people i have never in 36 years of being a cynic dealt with so much into intermarriage or interdating i don't know if they're all gonna get married but definitely enter dating on that i went out two o'clock at night one night to speak to a girl who came home to tell her mother that she's engaged to a guy from from from a different country her mother sat there from lady works in the inner bay sacko she's a teacher she said

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1. 0:00i have never in my life gotten so many phone calls i have to say this…
2. 0:30such a no-no it was like you know chavez all this other stuff but we're not…
3. 1:02she's like what what are you doing what are you talking about she said ma i…
4. 1:34went to the firmware we were 80 assimilation outside of our little chevra but now in…
5. 2:07is such a big hole and if you and and i i spoke about it this…
6. 2:38thing about derek right they didn't go after the strong people they went after the people…
7. 3:09her daughter came home and said i get a mazel tov good news and bad news…

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