#49: Behind the Bima - Special Guest: Sruli Besser

What’s said in this shiur

The opening of this shiur, in Living with Emunah - Rabbi Efrem Goldberg’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

From Boca Raton, Florida, Rabbis Ephraim Goldberg, Philip Moskowitz, and Josh Brody are taking you behind the Bima. The BRS Rabbis schmooze about contemporary issues and talk to special guests who give a behind-the-scenes look at how they got to where they are and what keeps them going. Welcome to Behind the Bima. Good evening and welcome. It's Wednesday Good evening and welcome. It's Wednesday night, 9:00 p.m. I'm your host, Rabbi Ephraim Goldberg, joined by my dear friends and colleagues, Rabbi Philip Moskowitz and Rabbi Josh Brody. And we're here to take you behind the Bima. That is correct. We're here to go behind the Bima. We've got a very exciting show for you, our dear friend Sruly Besser, and it promises to be a fascinating exchange of ideas. Sruly's not afraid to lay it out and to defend his positions and to talk about uncomfortable topics, though we're going to talk about inspirational topics because Behind the Bima is not a a big supporter of the magic industry. We had an illusionist on a few weeks ago. Since then, we are budding illusionists ourselves, watching YouTube videos. When I say some of us, I don't mean me. Um but David is David is legit and David's family are legit. And he has a great new book that tells the story of growing up with Houdini. And I've looked through it, I've read parts of it, and it's really a wonderful story and I highly recommend it. So, I'm not sure it's even available for sale. You have to get in touch with David directly.

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1. 0:01From Boca Raton, Florida, Rabbis Ephraim Goldberg, Philip Moskowitz, and Josh Brody are taking you behind…
2. 6:42your focus intensely on personal growth. So, you're balancing personal intensity with, you know, wanting to…
3. 12:46special person in our community, Rabbi Klein, um who used to get up and make the…
4. 18:52talking in my house. Just talking and talking and talking and talking. And at a certain…
5. 24:58Yeah, sure. He's remarkable. He's he's remarkable. His Torah, his music, his outreach, what he gives…
6. 30:35eavesdrop, I'm sure you picked up a thing or two, you know, from the mizrach wall.…
7. 36:11people do or or other books. I can only speak for what I've worked on. We've…
8. 42:18the sheer my satin on any number of the yeshivas I've ever been to you never…
9. 48:22you know let's say your wife makes supper for the kids right you know if if…
10. 54:26anger management issue, or some kind of scholastic issue. Nobody. We get credit, not us alone.…

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