Basic Judaism: Questions and Answers - 2 - Rabbi Reuven Lauffer

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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.

so it's like this you know yes shabbat shabbat is a it's a shabbat as a whole it's a whole thing inside of itself how do you manage right when you're not in Orthodox environment you know electricity is a problem driving is a problem all kinds of things are problems you know heating up food is a problem and it's interesting it sounds weird but really a person is supposed to stay home rather than go to synagogue it going to rather than go to synagogue it going to the synagogue means that they're going to transgress something are they gonna they're going to drive or go on the public transport ever it is it's better to stay home and of course it sounds weird because really everybody knows that that Judaism is a very communal thing it's very communal religion it actually says like this that that Jacob when he went down to Egypt to meet Joseph for the first time so before he gets so he sends Judah to establish like a communal center right that everyone a communal center right that everyone should have that community should be built around you know I set up a base of medicine of yeshiva are learning like a place for learning everything it's like an interesting thing like a set up set up a shawl like a synagogue yeah and Judaism is a very it's a very communal thing right we flourish inside of the community and yet we're being told that it's better not to go to shul better not to go to synagogue than it is to go to synagogue even if it means having a wonderful time over then feeling connected if that means that you're

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