Moshe and Asher Weinberger: Heart of the Fire: Together Even With Small Differences [Divergence 4/5]

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

the grammar family the frish family and the penner family and each of those families had incredibly noticeable obvious divergences whether they were denominational differences whether they were differences of observance whether they were differences in sexual orientation building family and that future the differences were quite obvious and quite clear and i was definitely concerned that in many ways i thought that the starkness of these examples could actually be a distraction if the only thing that we're willing to talk about is building that parent-child relationship when it's so obvious how different it is that the life is so different it can sometimes obscure the everyday differences that oftentimes slowly erode or slowly build friction within the structure of a family in many ways my own family is an example of the latter thank god you know my parents are unbelievable people and they were able to raise five you know fairly similar children that's to you know if you have a bird's eye view and you look from a distance we are all fairly similar when you look in closer our lives are a little bit different some of us are a little bit more religious some of us are a little bit less religious some of us raise our kids in one community some in the other community and you know when you talk about it from the outside it's like yeah that's not a struggle that's life that's what everybody's dealing with but inside of any family undoubtedly as any family knows this is really where the tug of war those imperceptible slights can

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