Yisro Vs. Moshe: When Torah Knowledge Breeds Arrogance, It Corrupts Judaism

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

recorded in the beginning of parshas israel israel or as he's called an english jethro arrives to the camp of the jewish people of course he brings maisha's wife to pyra and their two children gershom and eliaser but the terrorist says that israel is shocked to discover that maisha is serving as a one-man educational and judicial leader educational and judicial leader for a community of several million souls remember that the jewish people numbered there were males between 20 and 60 600 but then you had people younger than 20 people older than 60 then you had females so certainly the same number may be more so you're dealing all together with a community of maybe two or three million people and yesterday turns to his son-in-law maishrabeno as he watches him son-in-law maishrabeno as he watches him sitting and leading and judging and teaching and mentoring and guiding the people from morning till night from dawn break till nightfall responding to all of the disputes the quarrels the disagreements the conflicts the problems do i have to tell you about a few million jews living together in one place you have a community just of a few hundred families hundred families and rabbis are quite busy and stressed here you're dealing with the entire claudia israel in one place and israel can't believe it he says to murshid um what is this that you're doing to the people madua vada why are you sitting alone and the whole nation stands with you from morning till night

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1. 0:32recorded in the beginning of parshas israel israel or as he's called an english jethro arrives…
2. 6:11so the people themselves would be entrusted with the application of the divine law maisha will…
3. 12:20an organization for a community to have what's called avadhabi kairis or a movaker people who…
4. 18:32where everybody can have access and everything can be dealt with with efficiency and professionalism and…
5. 24:38leadership together with you seven the elders 70 great sages who are all given a piece…
6. 30:50that works that is sustainable where everybody can be heard and for that you need authorities…
7. 36:58and he heard them reading a verse aposic from the last parish of his eyes siva…
8. 43:09and he turns to his driver in yiddish and he says maisha israel what is your…
9. 49:20that if hashem is true god is infinite so the moment i have an ego based…
10. 55:33father to tell him the true story imagine how embarrassing it is how how how insensitive…

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