Rosh Hashanah: How Do We Know that G-d Exists? - Rabbi Daniel Mechanic

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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.

[Music] hello everybody so any of you were wondering where I got the name mechanic spelled like mechanic if you think I suffer my whole life telling people my name is rabbi mechanic my older brother is a brain surgeon so he's doctor mechanic the truth my younger brother's plumber McKenna I'm Biscay so that's my name where does it come from I'm hoping that my name comes from the following story I'm hoping my elva's ad my great-grandfather was a big Tom McLoughlin he came over from cousin uh from from the coven that he came over many years ago and maybe they asked him sir what do you do for a living and he answered it's been a Mohammed and the Gentiles could say yes so much kindness became mechanic that's what I'm hoping that happened in any event that's the name it's a very unusual name but the Emma Street is we are a family of mesangium we're a family of mahon come my father was intended for 65 years he openly started a modern orthodox co-ed day school in Long Island called Hank Hebrew Academy Nassau County so my father started to school many many years ago therefore I went to the school that my father started I even had him as a Rebbe in fourth grade my father used to send him letters to my mother when I didn't do my homework so there I was in his school it was a very modern school but my father always told me enjoy yourself but high school you're gonna put on a black hat and

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1. 0:02[Music] hello everybody so any of you were wondering where I got the name mechanic spelled…
2. 5:34thinking that's a lot of falafel that I could buy you know so the man offers…
3. 10:54suffer from migraine headaches percussion they all went away percussion but I would feel anything immediately…
4. 16:15what I tell the kids and that's what we learned from them so let me share…
5. 23:41take you kosher kosher Bleek oh sure I go to him oh my gosh I happened…
6. 29:25forbid work what is the word for work I vote that avodah it doesn't say that…
7. 34:51I looked at him and I said how do you know he doesn't he looks at…
8. 40:12and they come knocking on our doors to spread the message of the lower-right so they…
9. 45:31Hebrew Tyra's in Hebrew I said Sarah what does this word mean he say but he…
10. 50:52life who's supposed to take over he wasn't come only to you we would have come…

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