The Good Things We Do (Ep. 180)

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

and gesundin parnassa alle gute Sachen. Okay, so uh we are officially in bein hazmanim now. And this is time for vacation. Some people refer to it as chofesh. Right? Vacation. Uh I had a friend of mine learning in the old days in Yeshiva Mishkan HaTorah, which was known on the street as Split Tree. And Itri, under Rebbi Elefant, was one of the major Yeshivas in Eretz Yisrael and they tend to suck up everybody, all the talent, all the people. And uh you can only have that many uh talented people in one place. So eventually a group of them broke off and started their own Yeshiva called the Mishkan HaTorah. It was known as Split Tree. Eventually one of them went off and started another Yeshiva which they called Split Three. But that's for another story. Anyway, he was learning and he said uh it was almost bein hazmanim. It was the end of the zman. And everybody was looking forward to uh people had tickets to Europe, people had different things they were going to do. And Reb Sholom Shach came to speak. This is how he describes it. He says, and he looks at us and he goes, "Chofesh? Ma zeh chofesh? Yidden aleh Freedom? Hurl it all? Yeah? That There's no such a thing. And he pushed everyone to stay for an extra week in the Yeshiva. People canceled tickets, people did a whole thing. Yeah? So, Look, you have to understand what it means. It means when we say "chofesh". The Torah describes

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1. 0:31and gesundin parnassa alle gute Sachen. Okay, so uh we are officially in bein hazmanim now.…
2. 4:39waiting for a chance to listen to them." Uh some people know how to have a…
3. 9:14Hotel. And uh, there was some American woman there, and someone said to him, "Eifo mafia?"…
4. 13:49and he tried his best and he did a poor job and he got a bad…
5. 18:26This is challenging if you have children of different ages. You know, can I know her?…
6. 22:58You know, it's there like, you know, You perception. Perception. The the the I remember reading…
7. 27:05And then they would come back later. My first year in youth work I had the…
8. 31:45the ears, a little danger from the shoulder, you know what I mean? The sort of…
9. 36:20since people sings miros with a uh repeat the words, they don't want to repeat Hashem's…
10. 40:56Kid says to the parent, "I want to do this." No. "I want to do this…

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