Rabbi Gavriel Friedman - Food for the Soul: How to Maximize Moments of Inspiration

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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.

okay so what i want to share with you try to go through a little bit today is try to understand a story which we have in jewish history very famous story about someone by the name of elijah the prophet anybody heard of him before eliawa navi so leona v the lies of the prophet story goes like this it was a king the king there was a rule of the jewish people his name was in english i think they call him ahab anybody heard of him ahab all right now he was a pretty bad king at least for the jewish people that he came along and he instilled something very big which is called idolatry if you know probably you're familiar with the idea that the jewish people for many years now have been what's called a monotheistic religion believing in only one god and having connection with one god and he was very into the idea of what really spreading the wealth yeah not just one god there's multiple gods let's be involved in everything and the whole thing and by doing that he entered into this idea that what happens is is like now people were doing the following although they were worshiping god they were also worshipping all the other gods and it got to a point where elijah the prophet comes to ahab and he says the following let's just keep let's just keep on names i'm assuming i should write in english is that better okay so it goes like this yeah so elijah or something to write him as we know him as eliahu is one character another one is or ahab i'm going to call him like that ah and the other one is jezebel or i don't know how to spell this in english is okay this the these are husband and wife okay husband and wife

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3. 4:21and then here we go and everyone's like yeah here we go defense right they did…
4. 6:31chair appeared and a table and he stood on it and he said people how long…
5. 8:35that movie from 1994. and the bottom line is they all go over to the side…
6. 10:44to bring people closer to judaism right he's like hey you want to do something yeah…
7. 12:51good show my boy good show i just want to let you know eliahu that tomorrow…
8. 14:58want to do they even say when i get back i'm going to did anyone say…
9. 17:05tomorrow you will die what is she doing what is he thinking i was like oh…
10. 19:09to in a way that you want to continue with an excellent question and a wonderful…

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