7th & 8th Graders @ MHA - Memphis, Tennessee

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

I'm learning with the guys and speak to the guys. Today, if I can, I want to tell you a story that happened with me and with my rebbe. My rebbe is magical to me. My rebbe was nifter, passed away this year, and is one of the most important people in my life. And I want to share a story that I had with my rebbe, and I want to bring out a point to everybody here. The story goes back. This story happened 30 about 32 years ago this story happened. And my rebbe is the was the rosh yeshiva of the yeshiva I went to. He was the head of the yeshiva. And every single By this point in his career, 32 years ago, he was not involved day-to-day in the yeshiva. He had built the yeshiva, it was his place, but he was not involved day-to-day. One Shabbos a year, he like took over the yeshiva. The whole yeshiva would go on a retreat. They'd go to the mountains, they'd go to a hotel, and my rebbe took over the yeshiva. The whole yeshiva looked forward to that Shabbos. My rebbe would speak My rebbe had a beautiful voice. He would sing. We had question and answers with my rebbe. It was like a Shabbos that was all about my rebbe that Shabbos, once a year. We looked forward to that Shabbos. It was magical. We played ball Erev Shabbos. On Shabbos, we sang. And we just had a beautiful Shabbos with my rebbe, and we looked forward for months to that Shabbos. It's interesting. It was about now. It was always about

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1. 0:00I'm learning with the guys and speak to the guys. Today, if I can, I want…
2. 2:42Now you have to understand this is the one Shabbos of the year the whole yeshiva…
3. 5:56Let's not leave him alone. So I asked my parents to borrow their car. My father…
4. 9:05Shabbos." The lady says, "It's not my problem. That's yours. Get out of here." And she…
5. 12:16I'm going to risk my job. The guy risked his job and he hit us for…
6. 15:30communal setting, and she was raised to not like Yiddishkeit, to being a Yid, to not…
7. 18:09bring that to your classroom, bring that to your family, bring that to to community your…
8. 22:08year as a nation among the nations. Here are the living and say the living every…
9. 25:23feels to me we have to unite. That's an organic response to difficulty. We are more…
10. 28:28me. Don't let [music and singing] go of my hand. Tie me again. Father, I plead.…

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