A Perfect World - Rabbi Ken Spiro

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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.

[Music] my name is Ken Spiro I'm originally from born in Brooklyn who's born in Brooklyn or anyone not so many Wow grew up in New Rochelle New York everyone hears from the states they'll write to khiva yeah always Americans know any non Americans you're not even sure where you're from no one's saying one way or another okay Florida okay but all over the US okay I am Shh guys I grew I grew up in New Rochelle New York and a pretty assimilate at home not religious not Zionists you know my kids who were all born in Israel speak Hebrew as their first language raised observant you know they don't get that so my son asked me years ago he said like dad like what does that mean what used to do like Jewish stuff when you were little and I told him on Passover we used to have ham and cheese on matzah I'm not making that up it's true and he laughed and he said like why'd you bother with the matzah it's that was passed on we couldn't have any bread I didn't know anything growing up Jewish Lee you know at the after school after school Hebrew school etc and when I graduated when I never went to Israel I went to college bc before cellphones before computers and bbr before birth right anyhoo did birth right here see unbelievable and I never had that when I was in the so I was gonna do when I got out of I went undergrad I went to Vassar I was a Vassar girl I studied Russian language and literature and Japanese any Russian speakers I'd not the vasila come on

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2. 5:52one was value of life hands down the right to be alive most basic of all…
3. 12:08beating and they did this to up to 1000 people a week because they believe that…
4. 18:26said when a woman gets depressed she eats or she shops when a man gets depressed…
5. 24:34but anyway we assume in all modern liberal democratic countries not only does government have an…
6. 30:57the most religious conservative place in the Western world still United States but when I was…
7. 36:49happy days the day takes his bride to bed the day he lays her in her…
8. 43:45clearest distinction between the Jewish concept of value of life and everyone else's and in the…
9. 50:03through being teenagers is definitely a sign they learned mercy you know Roseanne Barr once said…
10. 56:31two choices you're part of the problem or you're part of the solution and doing nothing…

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