Matzah as a High Risk Investment

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

so there's uh a guy walks into a bar and it's not a joke this is what really happened a guy walked into a bar the other guy docked [Laughter] a guy walks into a bar and a big big burly guy this is a bar at a hotel lounge up on the 20th floor and he sits down at the bar and uh he starts talking to the stranger and uh he starts talking to the stranger next to him and he says then by the way you know here on the 20th floor that the wind current between the buildings here is so strong that if you jump out of the window before you hit the floor the wind current will actually lift you back up and put you back inside the window so the other guy says no that's impossible the big burly guy says no it's definitely true and i'll prove it to you so they go over to the window 20th floor the window 20th floor and jumps out starts plummeting but then the second before he hits the sidewalk he just sort of makes a u-turn and he sails floats back up and hops back in the window and he says there you see 100 uh fine so uh the other guy says wow that's amazing i gotta try that he jumps out of the window and he plummets and he hits the sidewalk and the bartender says superman you're a real mean guy when you're drunk superman you're a real mean guy when you're drunk yeah okay what we're going to talk about are uh high risk situations last minute saves right at the last second

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