Basics of Emunah #22: "I Hate Davening" by Rabbi YY Jacobson

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

the yeshiva dotnet [Music] tonight and next week is going to be a two-part series entitled quote endquote I hate davon Eng and that is a direct quote from more than one person I'm not gonna give a number of how many people I tried to compress it all tonight but I saw that it'll be wiser to disperse it at least over two weeks so let me begin with an anecdote I'm Alyssa this is a humorous anecdote there were two Jews Berkowitz and Rabinowitz who were friends and business partners and Berkowitz calls up Rabinowitz one day and he says we haven't been out in a while this Saturday morning 8:30 p.m. we're going to play golf Berkowitz tells Rabinowitz no way change it to Sunday 8:00 in the morning not Saturday he says why what's the problem we always went golfing Saturday morning he says Saturday morning I go to short I go to synagogue he says you you never stepped foot into a show besides the fact you're an atheist when you were a child you are communist you have nothing to do with religion you don't believe in any religion and any God in Judaism what are you telling me Bubba mices that Shabbos morning you're going to show so Berkowitz says he says you only knew me till Goldstein came to town that's when I never went to shul on Shabbos but once Goldstein came to town everything changed you remember Goldstein he came from Russia he didn't have two dimes today they say that he's worth six billion dollars I asked him what changed Goldstein and he tells me I started to go to shul Shabbos morning I speak to God and that's where all my six comes from and since that day I go to shul also Shabbos morning he says Goldstein I had Goldstein again

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