Purim - The Power of Presence

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The opening of this shiur, in The Parsha In My Life - Rabbi Reuven Wolf’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

okay everyone welcome welcome now everybody has to be seated thank you today's um this is a new class here a new series a new class of um a women's weekly lunch and learn the class we'll see if it's good but lunch is fantastic hashem i'm excited that my daughter is teaching today um leoritova so thank you so much and here we are all yours hi good morning or good afternoon um so um yesterday was perm so i thought it's close enough to perm that we can start talking about purim a little bit in general personally perm was never my like favorite holiday and it's either like your favorite or if it's not your favorite you really don't like it because maybe for like the more introverted among us there's just like so much people and noise and mess and junk just like the whole situations can be a little bit over overwhelming so it wasn't i really in uh i personally in fact like really like dis like department i i i struggled with that um the fact that i'm like i really don't like this this holiday coming up drunk men the whole thing it was just like not not my taste and um but when i started to learn a little bit of the facilities behind perm it's actually some of like the best most awesome deepest stuff that there is that like really resonated with me which was interesting to me so i'm like the date doesn't resonate with me but like the real true meaning behind it does and then as i started to like delve into that more like try to internalize it the day started resonating with me a little more a couple of years ago before covert

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1. 0:10okay everyone welcome welcome now everybody has to be seated thank you today's um this is…
2. 3:50because we're in gus because we're not an artist you know like so many myths involving…
3. 7:24all this terror amid this but that could also be extremely terrifying how am i this…
4. 11:09and that's set it up this way so that we have free choice so that we…
5. 14:48so it's okay but like you're not getting you're not getting me as i truly am…
6. 18:31right the the men who um who created the the men who created the eagle they…
7. 21:38goal conquering world right if i'm goal-setting the reality is there are people who will be…
8. 25:15it's not as you're able to sort of see past the revelation when you know the…
9. 28:57and they start like waxing poetic about something it could be like a little bit annoying…
10. 32:39what mindfulness is experience this moment as it is let the thought come into my mind…

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