If We Can't Change Them, What Can We Change?

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

Hi, this is David Alowski with our question and answer shorts. Yehuda Kravitz writes, "Thank you for clarifying the Karedi point of view on draft laws and the anti-religious crusade of Israel's political left. In the spirit of the brisker's observation regarding sephona which you have often quoted since we can't change them what should we be working on within our own communities in response to the current situation excellent question for those who are not excellent question for those who are not familiar with this briskar which I have quoted many times as somebody was coming over to the brisk and complaining about the kilon and complaining about that and he says why are you talking about them. They're they're not relevant to this story. There's a boatload of idol worshippers and there's a storm that's going to sink the boat. And Yona Hanavi says, "Nah, none of this is because of you. It's only because of me. I'm I'm the the Jewish people are the ones who decide everything here. Throw me in the decide everything here. Throw me in the water and the storm will stop. Even though they're still idol worshippers and they're still evil, but God's not concerned to destroy you. He's coming after me." and they throw him in the water and sure enough the storm stops. Yeah. So the briskar says you see that when there's problems happening we look at ourselves at the firm community not outside of it to anybody else. So therefore the as I explained was for us it was to us to

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1. 0:00Hi, this is David Alowski with our question and answer shorts. Yehuda Kravitz writes, "Thank you…
2. 0:33excellent question for those who are not familiar with this briskar which I have quoted many…
3. 1:04decide everything here. Throw me in the water and the storm will stop. Even though they're…
4. 1:35it was to us to it wasn't a protest. It wasn't a rally it wasn't a…
5. 2:05say Taknan and he said if this is such an emotional issue I'm going to make…
6. 2:36We have to be more serious about our learning and we have to put in the…
7. 3:07woman's yelling at him and says, "You draft dodger." He says, "I'm a lieutenant of the…
8. 3:41that says as more than hate Jews hate Ben. You know, so the hatred of us…
9. 4:11differently." It's a waste of time. They hate us and they'll always hate us. There's nothing…

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