Super Bowl, Sports, and Serving Hashem | An Honest Conversation ft. Rav Moshe Benovitz

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

That Super Bowl weighed heavily on me in the days leading up to it. I was a little bit of of an organizer in those days. Also, I was involved with a group of people. Getting to watch the Super Bowl in Car Avenue was not a simple thing altogether. And pretty much everybody went to to watch that Super Bowl and I at a certain point I was definitely intending to do that as well. But I but I decided really on my own and without any publicity. I I felt for myself and my growth at that point that it was crucially important that I actually not to take sports out of its lane and to make it into something more lane and to make it into something more than it is which would mean coming at the cost of one minute's focus on a morning sader or on chakras or anything else like that. It is already not worth it. The amount in roughness of price that we should be willing to pay in our pursuit of sports is zero or very very close to zero about what we'd be willing to sacrifice and what we'd be willing to [music] pay. That doesn't mean there's no world room for sports.

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1. 0:00That Super Bowl weighed heavily on me in the days leading up to it. I was…
2. 5:16emotional investment is negligible, if at all. It would take an extraordinary event that ties into…
3. 10:23clap alates uh it's very very rarely because I spend too much time or too emotionally…
4. 15:30being the the best Super Bowl of my teenage years for sure. That was an amazing…
5. 21:06other addictions, once you get over that first hump and that withdrawal type of thing, you…
6. 26:06before that we use you know the pregame ritual of before shakus or show the ability…
7. 31:12that it stops before it becomes an avoid or anything else like that or even less…
8. 36:46he's done that um you know so that's what I kind of meant that's important clarification…
9. 41:51to Baraku from the marketing, inspiration, content creation world that they are such masters in that…
10. 46:58or offline or sorry online ways that we can create that sense of is even though…

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