Amazing Stories of Ordinary Lives That Teach Us About Greatness - Jonathan Rosenblum

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welcome to Sparks of History where Jewish history and world history meet we are extremely honored and pleased to have with us today Jonathan yonasan Rosenblum uh Jonathan Rosenblum is an acclaimed journalist author and speaker he received his bachelor's his ba from the University of Chicago earned a law degree from Yale University law school and graduated um among other places from orf's main branch in Jerusalem right I spent 10 years by rki okay M shitz since 1989 re yisan yisan has been a columnist in nearly every major Anglo Orthodox publication including at present a featur columnist for the popular mishak magazine his numerous books include biographies on rakov ketki Mike Tres R El desler Rabbi shraga Fe menowitz Rabbi mosha Sherer Rabbi Noah Weinberg Rabbi mayor Schuster Lieutenant mayor bebom he has also adapted into English books called making sense of suffering and breaking through relating to struggling teens and the more recent which we'll be discussing among other topics ordinary greatness and some extraordinary 100 songs of praise a wonderful collection of essays which the family has been enjoying for the last number of weeks since we purchased it and urge all our listeners and viewers to either go online or go to your local bookstore it's it's just really a wonderful collection of essays by U Yan um getting started with ordinary greatness and of course we'll go on to other some other topics what do you mean by greatness in the title and what do you mean by ordinary in this context well by greatness I I basically

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1. 0:00welcome to Sparks of History where Jewish history and world history meet we are extremely honored…
2. 4:20almost 50 years ago but uh you know at the at the beginning of the book…
3. 9:13I think of myself as having been a shy kindergarten student but and I never could…
4. 13:26was able to come here and make this decision to come to the Yesa for a…
5. 18:49bring a uh a lawsuit for having broken their child well post there's post-traumatic stress from…
6. 23:05tremendous scholarship tremendous attributes what's the approach well first of all you have to understand my…
7. 27:55know if if Rev shifi melov somebody once said to him you know you're you're you're…
8. 32:10smiled at us but this this this was a fundamental uh to almost all the every…
9. 36:57Israel I think the future I'm clear to me that the future of the Jewish people…
10. 41:17only in the form of gutto biographies is that we miss a lot of that and…

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