A Hug from a Headline | Rabbi Akiva Teichtal

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[music] Tel a Viv, the heart and soul of Israeli secular [music] culture. That's where I was born to a Shmer Shabas family. Our family was the only form family in the building and almost the only one in the entire [music] block. I remember little shabas Friday night. We would sit at my father's amazing shabas table full of divertoro zmeiros while in the background unfortunately from neighbors houses we would hear inappropriate [music] music blasting. They didn't know [music] music blasting. They didn't know any better. My time came to go to elementary school and my parents not exactly enamored with a Tel Aiv system sent me to a nearby city Ramadan to a Talmud Torah called when we were about Bitzvah age [music] we were sometimes taught by the Rabbim the concept of Shirim not look at [music] this not look at that and it was not the accepted thing back then to talk to children about it they didn't [music] have a back then but I'm very grateful to them till today about it the years went by I ended

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1. 0:03[music] Tel a Viv, the heart and soul of Israeli secular [music] culture. That's where I…
2. 0:33[music] music blasting. They didn't know any better. My time came to go to elementary school…
3. 1:05today about it the years went by I ended up bashm inhib one benim I came…
4. 1:37continue not continue the deliberation the doubts would like eat me all up my parents were…
5. 2:07It was a sports section and there was a big headline saying just stop and wait…
6. 2:37newspaper. [music] I felt that thanks to Mashirim, he from the ground was telling me a…

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