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The Purpose of Life Q&A Episode 1

147 views · Aug 24, 2021

Rabbi Shay Tahan

A Q&A session exploring the deeper meaning and purpose of life.

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welcome to the jewish q's and a's podcast we are so we are so ecstatic to be launching this brand new program and i want to bring down the purpose of this podcast as you know the very first show it's called the purpose of life so there's a purpose of life and obviously the purpose of this podcast what are we here for so that we're here to ultimately bring the questions of the viewers to the mainstream to the camera in front of the appropriate uh speakers rabbis educators however they're classified and hopefully bring clarity to these questions for our lives to to take with us for the rest of our lives [Music] so how are we feeling about this new program i know it's something uh something out of the blue you know we started this jewish q's and a's trying to find the truth in many of the things that we go through different topics what are your thoughts about engaging in q's and a's like this so i'll tell you uh a big rabbi once told me when i was speaking to him about you know topics and what i should speak about and he told me something and i took it to like this very day and how i build all my

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  1. 0:00welcome to the jewish q's and a's podcast we are so we are so ecstatic to
  2. 6:26will see that the most enjoyable and funnest thing in the world is being close to
  3. 12:47i think it's the bottom line it's individual but uh that's if i could make you
  4. 19:11so you you kind of poured into the next question which was what does a person
  5. 25:58mushrik who just passed away he says it was a hoffman he says people ask the
  6. 32:08intensify or change in a certain way well the yo so when you when we say
  7. 38:25where you need to get to okay so thank you so much now you helped me
  8. 44:10in this world because he could have just given us like why do we have to
  9. 50:24that's the the fundamental difference between the way that spiritual is is uh um graded versus
  10. 56:40knows it's wrong and like i said before knowing something wrong is already a big level

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