To a Young Woman Seeking Friendship | Letter #23

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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.

all right good evening uh we are in the home stretch of 30 letters and 30 days we just completed three weeks um we are on letter number 23. yeah and uh tonight's gonna be a little bit quieter than last night last night we were broadcasting live from the sea kids shabbaton shabbaton in Stamford Connecticut and I was sitting in the lobby while all the kids were running around so yeah tonight we're back in soulword studios and uh won't be as exciting but it'll probably be easier to hear tonight's letter is a letter to a young woman um she's in seminary she has a problem she wrote to them about she's French or she speaks French that's what I know for sure from having read the letter um everything else let's read it together and see what we can figure out together based Nissan Brooklyn by the grace of God the 12th day of Nissan meaning the day after that of his Nissan meaning the day after that of his birthday 57 19 Spring of 1959. Brooklyn blessings and greetings customarily addresses a woman an answer to your letter is seminar you write that it's it's been a while I don't know what a while is and I couldn't tell from the rest of the couldn't tell from the rest of the letter but it's been a while that you've been learning in seminary valama is there and nevertheless even though you've been there for a while you haven't been able to make friends with the other students so it comes out that you are alone you're lonely

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1. 0:00all right good evening uh we are in the home stretch of 30 letters and 30…
2. 2:34and this understandably affects your mood so this young woman wrote to the rabbit basically saying…
3. 5:41even when you have the targeted lists that the faculty makes for you oh go make…
4. 9:54making friends is being more tolerant of others imperfection that ABBA doesn't use the words I'm…
5. 13:00okay the light and furthermore another thing I share hey are sages testify foreign that Jewish…
6. 16:07superficial level but it's uh it's a spiritual idea as well which is that all benesus…
7. 18:40dismissive of the faults you have to overlook the faults you know the adapter of was…
8. 21:51in the ground in the earth there's there's Treasures which is uh Treasures which are very…
9. 24:59percent but you need that quality in your life and you don't have it yourself but…
10. 28:06just relax for now and just focus on your learning with blessings for good news and…

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