Torah Down Under: Sydney - The "Living Torah" {Kesser Torah Highschool}

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

okay good morning gentlemen it's an honor to be here I come from a different planet it's called New York and uh it was a long flight and I'm glad to be here in the land down under I want to start by sharing with you a very important and interesting topic and uh leave you with uh closing message we say every day in our we say that God gave the Jewish people a living what does it mean it's a living t as opposed to what kind of T what else could it be what do it what does it mean that the t is a living T it has two very important meanings number one if we were to open up the heavens and look into the inner workings of creation and try to determine what upholds the whole world what keeps the world going what is the life source of this world what's the heartbeat of this world we would see that this world stands on one thing Tyra it may not look that way we see a physical Universe we see physical phenomenon we see Commerce we see economy we see different processes we see the rain cycle but what keeps everything go going is that the Tyra that God gave us is a living Tyra which means as follows which means that when you learn Tyra you are literally upholding the whole world and if there would be a moment of time that the world was without Tyra the world would cease to exista writes that this is the reason why God created time zones you know so right now it's um what time is it for you guys 920 or so in America it's 7:20 p.m.

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1. 0:31okay good morning gentlemen it's an honor to be here I come from a different planet…
2. 3:43know the Torah was uh given 3300 years ago what could the Torah possibly have to…
3. 6:59if it's just let's say speaking that's not called a la that has action speaking is…
4. 10:39he's also your great great grandfather you know Rashi is given a special title he's called…
5. 13:56Feinstein he's the leading halic authority of the the 20th century he wrote more than 40…
6. 17:38learning what exactly is it about the earlier Generations that was greater than the later generations…
7. 21:02often it's not so what is the common denominator about successful people in general people who…
8. 24:28you say really where does this idea come from does it say anywhere in the T…
9. 28:11blessing that you should want to learn only you could want to learn I can't help…
10. 31:21can decide not to do it so if he does it that's his own choice I…

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