From Carolina to Kedusha

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

[Music] is [Music] let my people let my people go [Music] land with shun's loving grace this is laser brody your host on laser beams and tonight we have a extremely special guest avram bell avram is an unbelievable personality he's a microbiologist and an mba and he works in bio high tech in israel and he's a musician he's an artist par excellence he is a former sprinter the guy he's got so much talent above all he's a tom and hawking and he's the father of tommy day homie it's amazing amazing amazing guy homie it's amazing amazing amazing guy and i want you to meet avraham bell avram welcome to laser beams it is an honor to have you thank you it's honored to be here okay first thing i'd like to ask you tell us about your background where you come from and your roots right so i was born north to atlanta like in 1956 in a really small town called salisbury north carolina had about 20 000 people in it right it was a time when america was separated you know you had uh institutionalized racism in america during that point in time but my family loved me they took care of me i didn't really feel it so much i mean you you noticed when you went outside the house but inside the house your parents always loved you and supported you and told you it was you were great you were smart you was going to make it in this world you'd go into a gas station there'd be separate restrooms for blacks and friends everything was separate separate schools separate restaurants

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1. 0:00[Music] is [Music] let my people let my people go…
2. 2:09when america was separated you know you had uh institutionalized racism in america during that point…
3. 4:41school and uh and i missed high school in north carolina so there's only one high…
4. 7:22college at graduate 1980 and i worked in the university i think university hospital i worked…
5. 9:58but i believe still believing that god i met in the forest so i would i…
6. 12:32how come we don't keep kosher okay we don't go to go to school on friday…
7. 15:04this this is called the level of spiritual truth that you arrived at and this is…
8. 17:38to pieces you really want to break me down to nothing like that okay i'm nothing…
9. 20:13said it you never miss the meal right hashem takes care that we can put our…
10. 22:49swamp your own little puddle like a frog in its own puddle right when you connect…

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