How Have Jewish Relationships Changed? Family, Friends, and Rabbis in Modern Times vs. the Past

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welcome to Sparks of History where Jewish history and world history meet we are very honored and pleased to have with us today Rabbi elhanan shaf Rabbi shaf currently serves as the rabbi the RV of b k that's base kessis of Los Angeles and abash also teaches at Ula boys high school and Ula girls high school and additionally is a professor of Jewish philosophy and judaic studies at T College of Los Angeles previously Rabbi sha was a director of educational programming and a senior lecturer for H International programs as well as a lecture for AA Tor in Israel Raa received Rabin ordination SM from rabbis Noah Weinberg and Rabbi zman neia Goldberg additionally RAB sha has authored a number of books including vanani bahashem a commentary onuma shasa which is a commentary on tra BR as well as Paradise breathtaking strolls through the length and breadth of Torah B shaf thank you for being with us we appreciate it very much I'm so happy to be here with you and thank you for this wonderful opportunity thank you um today we're going to try to um get um a perspective a Jewish perspective on rabbis teachers family and friends looking at the present versus the past so there's um there's Torah in here there's Judaism in there there's some history in there and um we'll we'll really look forward to getting rabash Sha's perspective on this um starting off what is the significance of the teaching in PK aot ethics of the Father which teaches us make for yourself a rabbi acquire for

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1. 0:00welcome to Sparks of History where Jewish history and world history meet we are very honored…
2. 5:27the midash tells us the in interpretation the language is a friend is only acquired in…
3. 10:56even in Mal I think where it says he a wife is called a friend um…
4. 16:20people's homes and make sure they know what they're getting themselves into and it's like an…
5. 22:12pick the wrong time and it's Shabbat shabas afternoon and my kid just wants to be…
6. 27:41I remember once in Yeshiva there was a family that I was sitting with a boy…
7. 33:00Community especially to our own family um has always been an important value and and I…
8. 38:50would become true when people are busy caring for parents or children that can't become the…
9. 44:13know you go to the right and I go I'll go to the left because we're…
10. 49:32real we are social creatures human beings were built you know is the language that I've…

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