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He is the Only Jew in Flatbush with a Flip-Phone - Rabbi Zecharia Wallerstein

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Rabbi Zecharia Wallerstein

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That's why I'm so crazy about iPhones and smartphones. I'm the rabbi that doesn't have the smartphone. I was by a Satma wedding and the girl was one of my girls who Bar Hashem turned around. I always tell the girls, I want to be an aid. First of all, I have to do chuva. So automatically I have to do chuva that day. Second of all, the kaducian is not a kaduc without an aid. Without the sheets, the kaducian is the kaducian. Without the adim and they're not kusher adim, there's no they're not kusher adim, there's no kaducian. But the reason I want to be an aid is because when he puts the ring on her finger, the two sayas, what avart for rebi to say on a girl that went through all those struggles to say in public, you are holy. So I told all my girls, I don't want no brahas. I don't want to read duba. I don't know how to read duba. I'm in Williamsburg. the person who's running the comes over to me. He says, "I'm really sorry." I'm like, "What did I do?" He

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  1. 0:01That's why I'm so crazy about iPhones and smartphones. I'm the rabbi that doesn't have the…
  2. 0:32they're not kusher adim, there's no kaducian. But the reason I want to be an aid…
  3. 1:03sorry." I'm like, "What did I do?" He says, "She asked that you should be a…
  4. 1:33on the floor like what? He says I took out my I took out my flip…
  5. 2:04you have filters. You're not looking at anything you shouldn't, different subject. Cuz once you walk…
  6. 2:35around. So that's a separate subject. But the time part of it, the time part of…
  7. 3:06world. And the satan created a a piece of metal that you are stepping out of…

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