Ricky Cohen Class Recording 8.17.21: Special Holiday Series. Class #2: Teshuva: Getting it Done

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

good good thank god okay so i want to ask uh each of you if you don't mind uh to get a pencil and paper i'm gonna ask you to do a little uh little work tonight all right david okay one minute all right everybody needs a pencil paper okay you good mac yep okay great okay excellent i i want to start by um reading to you a few tsukim reading to you a few tsukim a few verses that we'll read in uh in a few weeks they're of the most beautiful verses in the torah and they're referencing what will focus on more focused on now i'm sure many of you are familiar with them um i want to read them to you to just re-engage you in these they're really very beautiful so um it started the middle of this beautiful beautiful partial that mushroom says goes as follows it's not in the heavens to say who's going to go up to the heavens and grab this beautiful thing that aka offers us and bring it to us who's going to come and teach it to us so that we do it so that we do it who's going to do that well it's not in the heavens it doesn't need to be brought down from the heavens it's not on the other side of the great water of a great bank of water not on the other side of the ocean where we would say who's going to traverse the waters and grab this thing this beautiful thing offers us bring it back to us and we'll teach it to us and we'll do it nobody has to do any of those things what we're talking about is very close to everyone in our on our lips and in our hearts in order to do it one more puzzle

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1. 0:00good good thank god okay so i want to ask uh each of you if you…
2. 6:11we've habituated throughout our lives so let's just wrap the uh introduction quickly hey this idea…
3. 12:24let's start with three to five things good yeah let's start with three to five things…
4. 18:32quickly some rabbis say you don't pause you just keep reading but let's assume you can…
5. 24:37on yourself you're judging yourself right good very good perfect that's the thing if i look…
6. 30:49and you took the opportunity to write three to five things down right step two is…
7. 37:08the ring there uh recognize oh i'm gonna go with this one blaming blaming good so…
8. 43:19i finish after everybody else beautiful and you shouldn't you shouldn't even you shouldn't even worry…
9. 49:28conversation what do we do okay one suggestion is what i suggested prepare what you're going…
10. 55:37ah didn't you tell me ricky that there ain't no emotion in this thing that's right…

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