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"Holiday Gifts"

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Rabbi Daniel Glatstein

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now what are we gonna do we're going to say jokes those who know me know I'm a very serious guy I'm a serious guy so what am I going to do I'm gonna prepare jokes the more you prepare jokes you kill the joke you know a joke has to be natural I remember when I uh started uh started adding the ravanos so I used to tell over to my father the joshas so I was talking about you know a good Rabbi has to have good jokes so I said over one of the jokes to my father and you know what he said he said Donny stick to the divot era so that's what we're gonna do we're gonna stick to the divetyra you know I'm a very serious guy okay so we're going to talk a little bit about the holiday season and we're going to talk about the onion that is pretty customary in the United States of America and when it comes uh scratch me when it comes to Kratz look whatever you want to call it so you have to give gifts to the garbage man the mailman the super yeah a lot of gifts you have to give your employees your employers your boss using your inferior superiors is it permitted to give a holiday gift right is it permitted to give holiday gifts you say what could be wrong with giving a holiday spread the holiday cheer as they say right what could be wrong with giving a holiday gift well what could be wrong is it may be in a certain maybe a lavender Tire Plus success plastic says like this and Hashem your God will deliver

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  1. 0:33now what are we gonna do we're going to say jokes those who know me know
  2. 5:21we learned out all three so the gamar concludes that from those two words you learn
  3. 10:15so maybe you'll say the Israel of not giving gifts maybe it's only to the Seven
  4. 15:06so it says places even though in the context of the silken the sukum are talking
  5. 20:01can't give a gift to any guy but only a guy that worships Idols a guy
  6. 25:26can we rely on the sheet of the rajba and the sheet of the iri that
  7. 30:11so that's not gonna help us we're the random in my time number 17. Australia not
  8. 35:06it's only natural and it's only correct that if you're citing this this article to say
  9. 39:55se most of the time anyway it's yiddin who discovered it right most of the discoveries
  10. 44:33give them gifts because it creates a certain friendship and closeness and intimacy we don't let

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