KLM: Word for Table/Mitzvah for Life - How an Embarrassing Breakfast Taught Me How to Serve Hashem

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

You my [music] [singing] birthday. [music] [singing] Have you ever had someone serve you food and you kind of felt awkward that they were serving you? Let me tell you the first time that happened to me years ago when I was learning by my rebby. Sometimes I go by his apartment to ask him a shila and out of nowhere he would say, "Hey, have you had something to eat? Would you like some breakfast?" And before I could protest, he's frying eggs and toasting butter and serving me like a waiter. And I was thinking to myself, this doesn't make sense. I should be serving him. Now, let's fast forward several years. I'm the Revy and I have some to meet him. Uh, come by for shabas. I'm serving them and they're squirming and they're saying, "Rebi, please let us serve you." And I smiled to myself. Eventually, I smiled to myself. I know where my Rebby got this from. There's a Gumar in Kaducian where Robin Guml is slurring a wedding for one of his kids and all the Gdoleim are there who are his Tom and he's serving them drinks and of course they say to him Rebby we should be serving you.

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1. 0:01You my [music] [singing] birthday. [music] [singing] Have you ever had someone serve you food and…
2. 0:32were serving you? Let me tell you the first time that happened to me years ago…
3. 1:06shabas. I'm serving them and they're squirming and they're saying, "Rebi, please let us serve you."…
4. 1:36Robin Guml said something unforgettable. Here's what he said to them. Am I any greater than…
5. 2:06tell us he thought they were idol worshippers he did not think they were malahim and…
6. 2:40says, push it. If the bore olam, the creator of the universe, feels it's fit to…
7. 3:12someone greater than you is serving you and you it's a natural feeling. No, no, I…
8. 3:42hashem. Thank you for joining our word for the table mitzvah for life from the kab…
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