Why the Past Feels Safer Than It Really Was

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Shais Taub’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

Hi, this is Shay Taab and I'm going to sort of do a soft launch here of a new idea that I have. It's in honor of my mother. Aha Shalom. May she rest in peace. We just concluded the 7day morning period for my mother a couple of days ago. My mother was my first teacher. My mother taught me how to think. My mother taught me how to speak and write and communicate. And moreover, she gave me the confidence and the belief in myself that I had ideas that belief in myself that I had ideas that are worth sharing. In fact, it wasn't just me. I mean, they say, what's the definition of a of a genius? An average student with a Jewish mother. Okay, so yes, she was a Jewish mother and she definitely really really really loved all of her children, but she believed in everyone. Uh she was a speech pathologist. She herself as a young girl was severely speech delayed. She could not speak. She told me many times that when she was a little girl, she would cry because nobody could understand her. cry because nobody could understand her. And she would go outside and speak to the birds. She would listen to the birds tweeting and um have imaginary conversations with them because she was so lonely. Then later when she learned to speak, not only did she become extremely eloquent and dynamic as a communicator, but she basically devoted her life to helping other people find their voice and to communicate and uh strangers, friends, family, and yes, her own children. So, what I want to try to do in this series is share some ideas.

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1. 0:00Hi, this is Shay Taab and I'm going to sort of do a soft launch here…
2. 3:39with the free fish and Egypt. Okay. Now, Rashi is the foremost commentary on Torah. He…
3. 7:51Okay. So here's my thesis. We idealize the past and experience nostalgia not because the past…
4. 11:26we nostalgize about the 80s. Oh, it was so awesome. It was so wonderful. It was…
5. 15:34who lived through it, it was so great. It was great. Standing the bread line was…
6. 19:09associated with closed stories. Even if the story is about a time that was awful, but…
7. 23:17prescription. I'm not a doctor, but I have a prescription for you. Um, not a medical…
8. 26:57any how if you have a why meaning if there's purpose if there's purpose so I'm…
9. 31:07I should actually be more rested, more at peace, um less cortisol, less adrenaline. Um because…
10. 35:14This is it. Not that events will cease to happen, but his thesis was that the…

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