If Israel’s So Central, What About the Rest of Us? | Yael Leibowitz | Behind the Bima #195

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The opening of this shiur, in Parsha Perspectives - Rabbi Efrem Goldberg’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

[music] >> Welcome to Behind the Bima. In the hangover post-Pesach hit by a truck edition. >> [laughter] >> We're allowed to say that? Yes, but we can't laugh afterwards. Let's start off with that. It was a beautiful magnificent Pesach. So grateful to Hashem. Yeah, we're going with that. Grateful to Hashem. And it was beautiful and it was incredible. Really was. It was really nice. >> And right back the next morning, right back. We're back at >> the intro of a great episode with incredible teacher, Rabbi Yisrael Leibowitz. But first, Rabbi Moskowitz, you told a story in your drasha. I did tell a story. >> give us the summary of that story? Cuz I have a bone to pick with the story. Not the fact that you made fun of me in every minyan on the campus. That I'm okay with. >> the truth, but that's okay. >> [laughter] >> Which is that I pitch faster than you. Um I told the story, an amazing story. We're going to have to go this afternoon to a place that records the pitch. Pitch the Um Jim Morris, who was drafted in 1983 by the Milwaukee Brewers, had injury after injury, 58 surgeries in his

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1. 0:09[music] >> Welcome to Behind the Bima. In the hangover post-Pesach hit by a truck edition.…
2. 5:46And a lot of people felt very inspired by that. Woman came over to me afterwards…
3. 11:29We didn't play on Saturdays. And the Orthodox community could participate and there's something beautiful that…
4. 17:41between your students between when you taught in America and Israel? The difference in the experience…
5. 23:22>> you have read I'm Sorry to interrupt. Would you have written the book differently if…
6. 29:31it as profoundly, but American Jews woke up and the country they thought they knew is…
7. 35:10self-righteous yet." Um but those who made aliyah and some you know, there's somebody maybe we…
8. 40:54just putting this out there, but we don't have to go there at all. There's some…
9. 47:08values, but not to resent that there are other players in the field, right? I think…
10. 52:55generation that lacks nuance, where if you can't fit something into a 60-second clip, no one's…

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