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Mother Knows Best | Don Ghermezian

6.3K views · Aug 4, 2025

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A shiur on the wisdom of mothers in Jewish life and tradition.

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[Music] After the last video, a lot of people sort of stopped me on the street and one of the questions I get all the time was, "How did you come across this Shirim and what is it that makes it so important for you and stuff?" This goes back several years. I came home one area of Shabbat and I went to my wife and a couple of my cousins and I said, "Guys, Saturday night there's a a gathering in the city and a lot of the brand CEOs of the luxury tenants were going to be the luxury tenants were going to be there. It was a big gala event. I think it's important. Maybe we should go to this event and I left it at that." On Shabbat, my mom comes to me out of the blue. This is the first time my mother has ever done something like this. She never tells me where to go or what to do. She said, "Oh, Don, I I overheard you were speaking to your wife and some of the boys about the party that you need to go to. Do you think there's going to be people there dressed there that might not be appropriate for everybody?" And I I'm like, "Yeah, mom, you know, I I never really thought of

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  2. 0:31the luxury tenants were going to be there. It was a big gala event. I think…
  3. 1:01you know, I I never really thought of that, but yeah, you could be right." So,…
  4. 1:31table, the pelle yoets. And so I grabbed the book and by the way, I never…
  5. 2:02and exalted them. Yet they have rebelled against me. And I'm like, okay, Hashem, that makes…
  6. 2:34winter nights. This was January. They engage in marrynt of vanity, eating and drinking, playing music…
  7. 3:04realize that, hey, I'm making mistakes. Something's wrong. Hashem's not happy with it. Sometimes even smart…
  8. 3:36was the nudge, the shove, and the punch across the face without actually getting hit. And…

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