Respect and Honor in the Era of Trump

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

[music] You're listening to the Yeshiva of Newark podcast. I'm your host and curator, Rabbi Abram Kvich, and I hope you [music] enjoy this episode. If it's this must be, this is actually our 13th season. myself and raises of Gabriel and Mayor Schiller as it is for and it is the uh 15th day of the sphere. I think many of us are thinking about the aid of the spir especially perhaps in this year more than others a year that uh we have had hopes and anticipations and and I I want to deal with the statement that makes that Obviously for years have tried to tease out exactly what was the but I think I think we have to speak about the idea of first. >> You mean because there so much you mean because there's so much mus and co in general. Um, Remy, I know you sent me uh in preparation for today's program a number of essays about where has co gone, especially uh from the pronouncements of the president of the United States, Donald Trump in in the last couple of weeks, specifically I think an essay by Peggy Nunan. Although she's been somewhat even-handed about Trump, she lamented the fact that there is no more dignity, that Trump's statements are so ugly. And even though we know that other presidents behind closed doors might have spoken in in rough aggressive manner as the tapes of Watergate showed uh at least publicly they attempted to speak in some sort of a noble fashion. As she said in the era of Trump it seems like the idea of co is almost non-existent. You can say

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