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How to navigate our challenging teenagers in this challenging generation (Q&A) - [Archives]

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Rabbi Daniel Kalish

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Interesting. I have a dilemma. Mrs. Mendel asked don't speak about me. So, I want So, I'm like grappling with this. And I will I'll tell you something interesting before we learn together. I'll tell you something very very interesting. One of the worst ways ever to begin a speech This is not a speech. I did not You could believe me or not, I did not prepare even on the way here. I did not prepare. I did not prepare not for a second if you could believe not for a second if you could believe not for a second. I came with Bahram. I came back in the middle of the night. I drove to Baltimore and back. Today was hectic, but not for a second. Not like 30 seconds. That's not what I want to do tonight. I don't I'm not looking to give a speech a prepared speech. It's not I want to speak about the questions. I want to share We'll share the divrei Torah on my mind and we'll we'll learn together. One of the worst If it was a speech, one of the worst ways to begin a speech in the world is to begin parches bechvod achsanya. is to begin parches bechvod achsanya. When I hear a speakers, I It's cringed. It's cringey. Now, what's wrong? They're saying Chazal. Chazal say, "Start with the host." Parches, you start bechvod achsanya with the host. So, why is that cringey to say I'm doing Chazal? Why would that be cringey? It's never cringey to listen to the Torah and the Torah says So, you hear a speaker don't make any speaker does it they could be the best speaker, but I I don't like when somebody says, "Parches bechvod achsanya, Chazal told me to

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  2. 6:10other people didn't survive. Even Noach only emerged half of him. Hazal give a picture of
  3. 12:21Hazal is people can be on fire in a clolistic sense, in a general sense. Many,
  4. 18:33are little and certainly we try to do it smart and we set up with families
  5. 24:47picture of. And he's very stark. And he takes his his minyanim impressively. Seriously takes his
  6. 30:56And he's my rebbe just for this vert. I I study now other things from him.
  7. 37:05ensnaring Yitzchak, Yitzchak was ensnaring Hashem. Tzayid be fiv, he was trapping Hashem. What does that
  8. 43:10partial that's the main A big soul difficult soul The soul that's complicated here goes to
  9. 49:19and to try to be a pitron and advise your to our children that it's not
  10. 55:30people were doing. And and our kids are very, very much feeling. Kids today feel. They

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