Moshiach and Geula: Taking the First Step

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

with hashem's loving grace welcome to munna beams with your host laser brodie today's podcast is entitled the first step to redemption and it's our special podcast for tish above of 5780 this year 2020. i want to share a parable with you it's not a real story but it could be and it conveys an important idea that teaches a lot about bringing shiach and the goula the full redemption of the jewish people in the whole world the story goes like this a group of friends once made a trip together friends once made a trip together on the way to their destination they saw someone standing with a backpack on a crossroads well a few days later on their way home they encountered the same person with a backpack standing at the same crossroads in the hot sun well the group asked the backpacker why are you standing here the backpacker said it was hitchhiking he says i want to go to jerusalem he says i'm waiting for a ride and they asked how long you've been waiting and we've been waiting more than a week i'm camped out here by the side of the road when they laughed guess what jerusalem when they laughed guess what jerusalem is only a one-day walk from here if you've already started walking you could have been there four times already seven times already so many of us want to change yet we expect it to happen automatically with no effort on our part life doesn't work that way an old hebrew expression says even a journey of a thousand kilometers begins with a first step what does that have to do with tish above well the urushami gomura and tractate yoma page 5a says that a generation that fails to build the holy temple

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1. 0:00with hashem's loving grace welcome to munna beams with your host laser brodie today's podcast is…
2. 0:31friends once made a trip together on the way to their destination they saw someone standing…
3. 1:32build the holy temple is as if it destroyed the holy temple people think that's a…
4. 2:34yet the generation of the first temple was punished for 70 years only 70 years and…
5. 3:04is that fair where's the proportionality that doesn't seem to be proportionate we're still part of…
6. 4:05for the three nasty sins that one should die rather than violate it's therefore easy to…
7. 5:07some kind of influence on your boss that you rabbi your boss's his community and maybe…
8. 5:37but they'd murder their employees and their competitors anyone you ask will say that they await…
9. 6:38fancy names for it well how can hasidim get along with lit fox if hasidim can't…
10. 7:42i ask hashem hashem help me so that i don't perpetuate the exxon diaspora i want…

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