Episode 55 from Project Self (Know Yourself 1) with Rabbi Aryeh Wolbe

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

so my grandfather was born in 1914 uh in berlin germany and he did not grow up contrary to what many people know or believe he did not grow up religious he grew up in a very very secular home his father was an anti a religious anti-religious anti-almost anti-jewish almost uh you know didn't want his child he had only one son only one child which was my grandfather didn't really want him to have any involvement whatsoever in judaism jewish life or particularly not in involved in in torah study but as life had it and how hashem you know paved the path for for my grandfather he ended up going to a yeshiva where he became a very very uh very very connected very s spiritual um you know became you know one of the great leaders of our previous generation and when he passed away in 19 in 2005 passed in 2005 uh he was uh just uh an amazingly accomplished person an amazingly accomplished person um i i just i'll just tell you one quick story he made finally he made an agreement with his parents that if he goes to yeshiva for a couple of years that he will go to university back in berlin when he gets back after those two years his last job is before he was supposed to travel back uh there was a a uh mustard master who came to speak at his yeshiva this is the first musser discourse he had ever heard in his life he went to yeshiva but they didn't they weren't focused on they were focused on understanding talmud but not necessarily character development and here he heard his first discourse in character development

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