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

Okay, so by a show of hands only, anyone know what a cassette tape is? Ah, you’re going to reveal your age. So one class once told me, I remember when I was a kid, or he remembers maybe when his father was a kid, like a baby pulls out the tape, you know, schlepps it out. I said: Yeah, that's what it is. You put a pencil in, you turn it right. But what did they do with it? What did they use it for? I said: Never mind. Just wanted to know if you know what it is. I had one of those cassette tapes laying around on my basement floor. My little grandson picked it up and right away went - wheeeeee. I said: How does he know how to do that? Wow. So R’ Nisan Bauman, לרפואה שלמה, let me tell you something about R’ Nisan. Just like you're sure the sun is going to come up in the morning, he was by his Daf Hayomi Shiur, decades and decades, at 5:00 in the morning. He was the encouragement. He was the coffee for everyone. And then he went to work on a van. And he had a tape recorder. Ah, what's a tape recorder? Well, anyway, he had the Shiur of the tape in the tape recorder, and he always held the tape recorder to his ear. And he did this for years and years. The entire way to work in Manhattan on the van, he listened to the Shiur.

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1. 0:06Okay, so by a show of hands only, anyone know what a cassette tape is? Ah,…
2. 0:37Wow. So R’ Nisan Bauman, לרפואה שלמה, let me tell you something about R’ Nisan. Just…
3. 1:08On the way back, he reviewed the Shiur. If you saw R’ Nisan, he had his…
4. 1:38and he's holding his tape recorder. He's listening to the Shiur. The tape recorder by now…
5. 2:09And he realizes it sounds a little bit like a radio or a police radio, so…
6. 2:40and probably you yourself.…

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