Rabbi Gavriel Friedman - Food for the Soul: What's Judaism?

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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.

okay so yesterday last time on essentials what we dealt with is story and data anybody remember that uh story and data way we perceive things to say the things that we say the impact and the power of what we say how it reverberates for generations to come that's quite amazing many of us think like what's the big deal i just said something what does it really matter well in this case it mattered that an entire generation died at least 10 of them quite a painful death torah is intense it just seems to be intense if a person doesn't realize what it is right as does a 40 000 watts or volts you know when you touch it in jurassic park but uh that's not intense neither is drinking cyanide bringing one's death because we understand that that is a reaction so too is the idea of the spiritual world spirituality is quite intense it's quite real but again it's not intense right i want to make that clear for those who have heard this me say this the best three days i've been reiterating this point and i just want to get it across at least one more time for all those out there and all those out there okay and that's uh and that's the following that's fine to recognize the fact that judaism is not intense judaism is not intense really nothing is intense if you are used to it if you are not used to it it's intense right that's everything in life things are intense if you're not used to them and they're not intense if you are used to them is that does that make sense perhaps even if you got used to fire it

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1. 0:12okay so yesterday last time on essentials what we dealt with is story and data anybody…
2. 4:24get that it's not a matter of fair it's a matter of that's just what it…
3. 9:07the left up to the wrist don't be cheap some say three times slide that is…
4. 13:52where the grass is green and the torah is awesome oh won't you please take me…
5. 18:11of them are spoken out some of them are unspoken some of them you get slapped…
6. 22:52way home and your wife calls you and says i'm hungry you say me too that's…
7. 27:34to do with me then that doesn't exactly help the relationship many of us think and…
8. 31:44every one of your friends is driving a twin turbo six speed porsche and you get…
9. 36:38to do good deeds and therefore when you do good deeds you've done a mitzvah but…
10. 41:17learn your parsha your bar mitzvah has anyone done that anyone grew up in such a…

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