Who is GOD? Why Did GOD Create US? What Can We Give GOD? R' Manis Friedman & R' Yitzchak Botton

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

Welcome everybody. Wonderful to have another opportunity to sit and have a a nice just a talk over some coffee with one of the greatest minds today. And it's a privilege and hopefully, you know, we'll put our two heads together and come out with something new. You know, with the Torah is meant to always be new and let's see what we come out with today to enlighten ourselves and and and everyone that's going to be watching this wonderful video. So how how did you get interested in these topics? That's That's a good question. Let's say going That's a good question. Let's say going way back when I was still younger, I would they called me a dreamer. I was I was given that that title of a dreamer. I used to work in the family business and I would daydream of a different life, a better life. Not what I would call the the going around in a circle and can't find a way out life of just what everyone's you know, programmed to do in my generation. Make money, spend money, make more money, spend money. Uh and go and realizing you're getting nowhere with your life. So at about 20 years old, I decided to take those dreams and try

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1. 0:00Welcome everybody. Wonderful to have another opportunity to sit and have a a nice just a…
2. 3:32Which is a fascinating subject, it's a fascinating topic. But the real question behind it all…
3. 7:37of it all. Right. So there are attempts. Like for example God is a king, and…
4. 11:42modern approach. What was was, leave it in Leave it in the past. Not everything from…
5. 15:46more connected. Maybe more godly. Right. Yeah. But what what it's what it's answering is not…
6. 19:54They're a means to an end. The greatness of Torah is it is not a means…
7. 23:56immigrants, young, communist educated, atheist to the nth degree. They don't believe in God. They don't…
8. 27:58Kabbalistic talk. If if he is the desire, then there was no him without. But that…
9. 32:03That's right. Beautiful. So to say that the Torah is only for us is a terrible…
10. 36:07because that's why there's a distinction between him before all this started and him within it…

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