The Mysterious Sefer Torah

What’s said in this shiur

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

stuart mintz was born and raised in cleveland in the 1950s for the first 35 years of his life he had no connection to his heritage and was not really interested in pursuing anything other than my bar mitzvah as soon as i was done with my bar mitzvah i was basically done with my jewish education but in 1988 stuart and his friends were offered a subsidized trip to israel and they decided to take advantage and go they arrived very early friday morning and before they knew it shabbos rolled around and i find myself of shoals and suddenly they come to this white building a big shoal with the windows open and stewart can hear people from the inside davening and he turns to his friends and he says why don't we walk into this school and check it out there was the very first time i walked into an orthodox show so much so that we were saying you know we don't want to look like tourists like conspicuous and everything so let's go upstairs so they get upstairs and stuart leans over the balcony and what he sees left an indelible impression and him he saw it for the very first time of his life he sees people around the bhima wrapped he sees people around the bhima wrapped in prayer shawls and talism white beards old ancient savor torah open on the bhima and they're reading from it and he thinks themselves wow if i can go back into time 2 000 years ago i would see the exact same sight a bunch of old men reading these exact words in this exact order at this exact time of the day that's why we as jews are still here today it was that moment that became a turning point in stuart's life he realized how little

Jump to a moment

1. 0:04stuart mintz was born and raised in cleveland in the 1950s for the first 35 years…
2. 1:04of shoals and suddenly they come to this white building a big shoal with the windows…
3. 1:36he sees people around the bhima wrapped in prayer shawls and talism white beards old ancient…
4. 2:06in stuart's life he realized how little he knew and how much more he wanted to…
5. 2:37he was hospitalized for many weeks when he was born his grandmother was home in cleveland…
6. 3:08if you promise on the very first shabbos to do a special mr bear across royal…
7. 3:39including the torah and they moved to israel at this point stewart cannot believe his ears…
8. 4:10that this would have happened to me but for that fact you know the posix says…
9. 4:41because ultimately you will realize that it will support you [Music] you…

Every second of this shiur plays inside Lehallel — a filtered YouTube library of Torah, music and shiurim. No ads, no comments, no autoplay.