92: The Test Advantage

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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.

Hi, this is Rabbi Ulanski and welcome to the Rabbi Ulanski Show. Wherever you are watching or listening to your podcast, it's certainly exciting to have you along as always. As you can tell, we're still not back in the official Rabbi Ulanski studio because I'm wearing my earphones. And that's not just because I've been stuck in the house with children and grandchildren for weeks and I'm trying to block out for weeks and I'm trying to block out the noise. That's not why. Because we're not in our regular studio and uh as you can see, I had to schlep all my bookcases back, put it over here to be able to uh continue the podcast. And um uh what can I tell you? It's so exciting to uh to be here. Um I uh uh this will be my podcast before uh this will be my podcast before Shavuot, obviously. And uh we've spoken a lot about Shavuot. We spoke about it last year. We've spoken about it a few times already in a number of podcasts leading up to this. But um uh that's by the way why I put on my gold tie. I hope you appreciate that because, you know, Rosh Hashanah is din. Din is always gold. Gold is din, silver is rachamim. is rachamim. Yeah. And uh that's why it's uh Reb Moshe Shapiro explained once. He says, "The sun is din. And that's why if you you see nothing but a giant red yellow ball surrounded by blackness, nothingness, because nothing can stand up to din. And that's why uh Kudsha Berichu added in rachamim because

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7. 23:19We would uh We were communist. We were capitalist, you know. We We drink babies' blood.…
8. 26:55He was preparing while he still was being tested. And once he was able to prepare…
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