American Leadership (Ep.326)

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

Hi, this is Dr. Olowski and welcome to the Robert Olowski show. Thank you for that spontaneous burst of applause. To those of you watching with our friends and producers over at Tor anytime, wherever you watch or listen to your podcast, as always, it's nice to have you along. I wanted to give a shout out about our merch. People keep asking about our merch. We have the mugs with sweatshirts. You can make your own Rabbi uh who helped to uh build America. You saw an interesting uh video recently. Um it was a clip from a comedian uh Bill Maher and uh he said something very interesting. He said he didn't say this but this is my quote. Voltater said that the perfect is the enemy of the good and that, you know, they went through this series where they were tearing down statues of people because they weren't perfect. Why then they would put up a a statue of George Floyd who was a criminal, I don't understand. But, you know, I guess at least he never pretended to have done anything. But they start pulling down. Delasio took out the um statue of Thomas Jefferson. People were pulling down other famous people. You know why? Because they weren't perfect. And uh his that that's the introduction. What he was saying is that sometimes imperfect people can do a lot of good things. And uh a person has to acknowledge the fact that when somebody does something good, whether or not they're perfect or not is irrelevant. And this is a terrible problem I have to say. Um over Pesak I met several people whose kids just stop talking to them. You know they always have a reason. I went left said

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1. 0:00Hi, this is Dr. Olowski and welcome to the Robert Olowski show. Thank you for that…
2. 6:16to be chief rabbi I didn't vote for him to be pope I voted for him…
3. 12:30an important concept. Deal with the real, not with the ideal. The perfect is the enemy…
4. 18:42he appointed the first Judith Supreme Court. Wilson read and believed in the Bible. He supported…
5. 25:02Annie the musical. I remember there was this line where these people who are in a…
6. 31:15who are in trouble. I've told this story a long time ago in the old is…
7. 36:58he had this expression when he didn't like something, he'd say, "That's a lot of manure.…
8. 43:10recognized the state of Israel 11 minutes after it declared its independence. David Niles, who worked…
9. 49:26assassinated and how he he did every it was amazing. But okay, 36 presidents. He grew…
10. 56:02work. There was a time when California elected Reagan as governor. Yeah. 1980 he ran for…

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