Is Torah relevant in 2023? with Rabbi Benzion Klatzko

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

you're a bad Jew [Music] you're listening to the bad Jew podcast welcome everyone thank you for coming in this is the podcast where you are not a bad Jew for being on your journey with me today is Rabbi benzion clatsko Rabbi me today is Rabbi benzion clatsko Rabbi thank you so much for joining us today how are you doing today pleasure thank you very much thanks for having me on of course my pleasure listen how is Torah relevant to 2023 and I'm I'm actually kind of curious about that because it really it's a book that was it's a scroll it's a parchment that was written what 3000 years ago at this point five thousand years ago what what is it exactly how many years now well it was given 33 334 years ago right there you go so last year would have been three three three three would have been really easy to three would have been really easy to remember so we're gonna we're gonna talk about how exactly it's still relevant to today but in order to get you properly acquainted with our audience today I'm gonna go ahead and give you the bad Jew challenge which is to tell your life story in four minutes are you ready let's do it all right three two one go okay great born in Cincinnati Ohio grew up in Cleveland uh Indians when they were the Indians Browns calves all the

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1. 0:01you're a bad Jew [Music] you're listening to the bad Jew podcast welcome everyone thank you…
2. 2:35time there over that stretch of about seven years I I got the bug in meat…
3. 6:09synagogue was nice place mainly for elderly people and I was the rabbi slash youngest of…
4. 9:13they understand what the context is because there's so much of it you can't not bump…
5. 12:24yeah no that's that's that I mean listen hey context is important here's what I'll tell…
6. 14:55back to the hard money now the Torah is the gold standing so that the question…
7. 18:00and we've emancipated the slaves in America and other places still have his place but but…
8. 20:34but you could say it on cable and uh the FCC can't catch it and and…
9. 23:38morals are really a product of where I was born in the moral wave what I…
10. 26:15change uh everyone sees what's going on and yet Society can't do anything about it because…

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