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A Politician's Spiritual Opportunity | Letter #15

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Rabbi Shais Taub

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welcome to week number three can you believe that we're starting our third week which means we are halfway through and um tonight's letter is a letter that took a little bit of extra research in order to properly understand because the Reba is writing to an Israeli politician a fairly prominent Israeli politician but the one that I had to do a little bit of research to understand more properly what the context of the letter was and I will try to fill it in as we go and remember the letter to uh Louis Finkelstein where the rabbis said why did Rubino accomplish honor rich people and that ever was explaining because Rabino kadish had to uh guide the Jewish people during a time of Crisis and when you're guiding the Jewish people during a time of Crisis you need to be a good talent scout and you do you need to identify members of the people who have influence and you have to network with them remember that letter like uh I don't remember how long ago maybe it was probably over a week ago so this is a good example of that that ABBA is sort of developing a relationship with this politician um not necessarily because this is someone who's already an ally or at least not a strong Ally completely aligned with the devil's worldview which is similar to the the letter to Finkelstein for that matter but rather in it as as was the case of the Finkelstein letter and um many letters from that but to many people that I was writing to people who maybe you would think would be unlikely um unlikely allies but the rabbit perceives an opportunity to create a relationship and to find

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  1. 0:01welcome to week number three can you believe that we're starting our third week which means
  2. 4:22who is Eliezer livner or liebenstein was born in Poland in Lodge Poland and um was
  3. 9:00will begin that I was saying like I'm answering your letter and then I will say
  4. 13:20okay so let's see now that episode in general in life when you start to make
  5. 18:16adjust things and to get people to maybe be a little bit more aligned with traditional
  6. 22:30as the son of the rabbi of Jacob in in uh in in Russia in Ukraine
  7. 27:21look at the I said I said dubidus look at the Ten Commandments themselves it starts
  8. 31:33almost reads like a PS because that I've already wished him a happy poem or a
  9. 36:30who is a Jew so the who is a Jew issue was starting to become an
  10. 40:48it's just something that I am passionate about in that same sir which happens to be

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