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Why Are We So Divided? | Rabbi Shoff

1.8K views · Oct 28, 2026

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in this this area I live in is so divided. And I I've been I went to war at 18 years old for my country. So, I'm just trying to figure out like how do how do you perceive it? So >> I I think it's a story as old as the human condition. I really think that. I think that when people are different I for example, I I went to high school in Queens. And I remember some older, you know, all-American kind of white folk in Queens who had a hard time when their a neighborhood is becoming Indian and

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  1. 0:00in this this area I live in is so divided. And I I've been I went…
  2. 0:31neighborhood is becoming Indian and Bangladeshi and Pakistani. It was filling up cuz you know, Queens…
  3. 1:01that having conversations, seeing each other as human, and and even being able to acknowledge weaknesses…

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