I cared for STRAY CATS... what they taught me is AMAZING

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

I had an experience over the past seven, eight months. It's nine months already. I bought a property mitem. Later there'll be some news about this, but I bought a house near the aisle in Queens, which I'm going to use for programs, for classes, for events. It's going to be a very nice thing. So, it's not my house where I live, but I have this property. And um from the day I bought the house, I noticed there were a couple of stray cats who would like kind of hang out in the driveway. And I got curious about it. I was like, and they're really stray cat. I mean, the they don't have homes. They don't live in any home. They've never lived in a home. They're feral cats. They live in the streets. They smoke weed. Yeah. They hang out, you know, in the streets with all types of other stray cats. Exactly. So, I I said, you know, it'll be interesting to see could I get them comfortable with me? Could I like get them to come close? Could I touch them? Could, you know, pet the cat? And it just became my little amateur psychological experiment. And I am so glad that I did it because I learned so much. The cats taught me the cats taught me things that are undeniable about how to not stress out another living being. And here's the beauty. Sometimes we get so enamored with words, our beautiful words, and we say, "Well, I'm telling you such compelling arguments about why you should do this, why you should listen to reason, why I mean you no harm." And you try to explain yourself, well, why aren't they listening to me? And you have to realize that when you're dealing with people,

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1. 0:00I had an experience over the past seven, eight months. It's nine months already. I bought…
2. 2:34too intense. I'm making quick movements, sudden noises, right? And normally we don't think about that,…
3. 5:13comfortable being around you when you turn your back to them because facing them is too…
4. 7:46I started putting out uh a food dish. See that food was the critical thing. The…
5. 10:19little bit. And that was like a big breakthrough. I was like, "Yeah, I got the…
6. 12:56have pictures showing how gradual it was. Is there sound on this? What that is a…
7. 15:29now. There his prerogative. The cats taught me that just because somebody's comfortable with something one…
8. 18:02hanging out under the car. And that's totally fine. And they sound signed waivers. So look,…
9. 20:36When they say, "I don't want to talk about this now." Has anyone experienced a physical…
10. 24:11now. How can you not let me hug you today? Or when it was good for…

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