The State of the State of Israel (Ep. 233)

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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.

enough love the show you offer a rare combination of entertainment and depth that is just a pleasure to listen to please keep the shows coming well Lem thanks to people like you that is possible to be able to keep this going and uh what can I tell you it's uh it is definitely I I have been asked a number of times over the years to open a seminary and whenever I would be asked that I would say why what Niche is not being filled that you want me to come along and fill and they were like no just like to make money I was like no I'm not going to do something just if everybody else is doing it I I don't believe in Reinventing the wheel um there are so many organizations that duplicate the efforts of similar organizations and it's hard for them to explain why their organization is essential more than anything else when I was uh running NC Long Island there were these different yeshivas inel that catered to Americans who were coming to Israel for a year or two years and they wanted me to send them my better NCS wirers who were graduating and think of coming to Israel and whenever a new Yeshiva would come I would say why is your Yeshiva different than any place else what's unique about it you know and they would try they would try it was hard to uh to give an explanation I remember when I eventually made Aliah and I was

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