Fixing Unesaneh Tokef

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

since what even is pestilence keeps running through my head. Can you please rebuild anat for me? Yeah, this is a common problem. For those who are not familiar with the uh anonymous's question, um probably my first go-to talk when I'm talking to a new audience is called why be Jewish? And uh it's basically an introduction about why a person should be Jewish today. And it's more or less based on the first two lines in Masil's hasharim about what lines in Masil's hasharim about what life is all about and why we're here. And I begin by eliminating all of the other reasons that people give till I get to the real one, right? And one of the things I go through is people say, "Well, you got to be, you know, Jewish. You got to be religious or you're going to burn in hell." And I spend some time building that up because I would like to eliminate that as a possibility. That's not why you should be Jewish. And I say, I understand where it's coming from, I understand where it's coming from, right? Rashan kipper is a very heavy time and it seems to give us this attitude. I said it's summed up best in that nana tof you know you're a kid and I was a kid you go to shul and the kazin says oh me and we understood what he was saying might live but you're going to die and the choir goes die.

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1. 1:00since what even is pestilence keeps running through my head. Can you please rebuild anat for…
2. 1:30lines in Masil's hasharim about what life is all about and why we're here. And I…
3. 2:30And I'm like, "Oh man, I'm gonna die. What a bummer." But now you get to…
4. 3:32I said you know there's no fire there's no devils no pitchforks right because you're a…
5. 4:36Who will live and who will die? Ask for des but you see it's not true…
6. 5:37rash and that judgment is going to be sealed on yam kipper and think what you…
7. 6:08You want to just be asleep. You want to miss life. Yeah. Cuz what do they…
8. 7:08will be at peace and who will be persecuted. Some people like to be persecuted. I…
9. 8:13looks at this guy and thinks he's crazy. So they're passing by a movie theater and…
10. 9:13And that's what this world is. It's an illusion. And you choose the makeelieve that you…

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