To Be a Jew - Ethics of the Fathers - Rabbi Yitzchak Botton

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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.

so what we're going to listen are going to be insights into perky evo we're going to talk today about different ideas some of the ideas we're going to present are going to be the standard explanation that we have on the these ideas from the stages and then we'll add you know here and there different different uh you know some novel insights into what we're talking about over here so let's we'll get started okay what i would like to talk about first very very important to understand what does it mean to be a jew so it's not just a label to be a jew so it's not just a label it's not a title that comes without obviously a reason you know to be a jew what does it mean so the truth is life is about action and so we're going to focus now on what it means to be a jew from the perspective of acting like one jew as a verb to turn it into being a verb not just something that i'm called because my parents were jewish and my parents were jewish so what does it mean to be jewish as a verb so ultimately all human beings have in common three ways that they can express common three ways that they can express themselves in this world either you could think and that expression although it's real but it's within within the person so that's one way to be conscious and to be active is to use the power of the mind which is essentially the uh the highest level that we exist the mind is the greatest thing that god gave us the ability to think and perceive and understand but that's internal the next way we could express ourself is going to be to our fellow person through speech

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1. 0:14so what we're going to listen are going to be insights into perky evo we're going…
2. 3:18became a living being he says that that means man became a talking being and so…
3. 6:24is know what is above you just a preface it's just trying to prepare us for…
4. 9:56thought in the world of thought your thought is very real it just doesn't come out…
5. 12:59cup of coffee begrudgingly doesn't say a word to his father he gives them a smile…
6. 16:34know what is above you god is saying me li it's meaning my type of eye…
7. 19:37although we know we're not going to live here forever for some reason the person puts…
8. 22:43say okay you climb on my back and i have eyes and i'll lead us to…
9. 26:18you have two minutes today probably a half a minute but you have a minute earn…
10. 29:22a long time it wakes up all of the righteous are going to wake up again…

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