Are You Giving or Getting? - R. Elazar Meisels - TorahAnytime.com

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

i want to finish with an amazing amazing story and it's not a story that i heard a story that i read this is a story that i dealt with personally i may have once said it i don't remember if i should i don't believe i did unbelievable story i'm going to change the names because the people are all alive and well he's a wonderful person wonderful person he's a wonderful person wonderful person a friend of mine who lives in detroit and we'll call him haim had a business idea heim thought to himself he had an idea how he's going to make money he needed somebody to invest in this business he went around to different people that he knew to find out if they can perhaps invest in his business and somebody pointed him in the direction of a yid we'll call him mr clapper the yid was not a from yid in fact he the yid was not a from yid in fact he had been married to a yid had a few children with her divorced her and then took himself a second woman i wouldn't call her a wife took himself a second woman and had more children with her that second woman was not a jewish woman unfortunately um it was not a from yeah he was a hamish she was a warm he was a kind he was a nice person who was unfortunately completely thoroughly uneducated and yet described so he knew nothing and that's why he made the choices that he made

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1. 0:00i want to finish with an amazing amazing story and it's not a story that i…
2. 1:02the yid was not a from yid in fact he had been married to a yid…
3. 2:03successful i'm not sure my heart's in it but you seem like a really nice guy…
4. 3:04wonderful person really sweet smart intelligent good kid trying to figure it out and he says…
5. 4:37hesitate to call it a shul i'd even hesitate to call it a steeple because it…
6. 5:38so purim people used to line up by rabbi deutsche and he would give them all…
7. 6:38there so he says him to everybody and he sees andrew and he says shalom aleichem…
8. 8:12says andrew your grandfather gave my father the money to buy this house ten thousand dollars…
9. 9:14leave me alone here here's 10 grand go buy it and le llama sign up you…
10. 10:47thought he was giving rabbi deich something his grandfather had no idea he wasn't giving rabbi…

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