The Rebbe Who Changed My Life : R' Zecharia Wallerstein ZTL - R' Shenhav Bendel (Chinuch) STORY

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

that my seventh and eighth grade those two years it was a time of a lot of trouble i was getting sent to the principal's office many times and basically one day whilst him comes to me he tells me listen opens up the homash reads me the first team over there and he says what did you do last night i was shocked i'm not going to get into details but i was shocked by the ability of the rabbi and the torah to really exactly pinpoint and the torah to really exactly pinpoint the thing i did the night before and everywhere tells me stop making trouble you're going to be a big rabbi one day and i just hear those words and i say to myself me a rabbi what relationship between those two concepts i wasn't religious whatsoever i did not come from religious households my parents were israeli idea of soldiers that came to america to make money and we didn't even grow up in a house where culture the jewish culture was so important to us so with all that important to us so with all that i hear the rapper's voice and i'm continuing on my life i go to high school and in high school you know i continue in this direction of mischief and trouble until i find myself at the age of about 19 djing in big parties in new york big you know parties such as pasha and islands and water taxi beach different things like that and completely in the other direction completely in the other direction

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1. 0:32that my seventh and eighth grade those two years it was a time of a lot…
2. 1:02and the torah to really exactly pinpoint the thing i did the night before and everywhere…
3. 1:33important to us so with all that i hear the rapper's voice and i'm continuing on…
4. 2:04direction all day i'm in college working out lifting mma fighting all my friends are italians…
5. 2:35weird dream i haven't seen our palace in about eight years and i just it's bothering…
6. 3:05decided i wanted to go to a birthright trip from that i decided i want to…
7. 3:36but considering the circumstances the minimum that i could do is share this story with his…
8. 4:07troublemaker that nobody wanted to know but there was no hope for me the principal sent…

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