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Chovas HaTalmidim: 7 Educational Principles for Our Generation

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Rabbi Yaakov Klein

Rabbi Yaakov Klein explores the first chapter of the Piacezner Rebbe's mussar classic and its 7 core principles of education.

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Maya with the introduction that I have no qualification to speak really but certainly not in such a context of very esteemed friends and educators I want to tell you a personal story that's what the whole Shear is just going to be a personal story my story that is our story but as of now it's mine and the story is that when I was 17 years old I was a very disenfranchised from teenager without getting into all the details of why not that I was from or a teenager that's regular but why I was disenfranchised and I ended up in the shivanaras Israel which was four mildly disenfranchised from teenagers whole story how I got there halfway through the year I found myself sitting in the courtyard of the Yeshiva reading a novel by a secular non-jewish author called Stephen King writes horror novels don't ask me why I was into that I'm not the only one he's a very popular author and I remember this day momish like yesterday I was sitting there on the couch in the gutser and my shorts and on the shirt like could you Shiva bathroom dress being a star and I was sitting there reading this novel and I saw that he quoted apostlic and EO of job and I'm reading this pasok and I'm like wait a second once yes she was all my life educated like all of us regular standard education and I never opened the Eve in my life I don't know this pasok I don't know anything about job and hear this non-jewish person is quoting scripture left and right it just hit me very

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  2. 3:34fire because I was searching for something my whole life and continued to search I went…
  3. 7:40mind-blowing to me having gone over these chapters again and again and again over the years…
  4. 11:18your position over what you are okay who is the Jew who is the person that…
  5. 15:23and they each based on their understanding of the definitions of these things one person Shabbos…
  6. 18:58you'll relax you'll have a good time and you can still reach the goal that we're…
  7. 23:12to say that mirosh I'm not here to turn you into it's connected to the first…
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  9. 30:52second paragraph in that peric Israel don't stress out that's that's how he follows this up…
  10. 34:28little bit from classic psychoanalysis it used to be that the you know the person sitting…

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