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

Uh, last week we're speaking about Jewish resilience and keeping a positive attitude and uh, staying emotionally stable when the world is crazy. Remember that? Okay. For those of you who weren't here, those watching online who don't want to go back and watch part one, at least not right away. Um, I mentioned last week that there's a famous work uh, by the medieval Spanish author uh, by the medieval Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes who was the great They call him the the Spanish Shakespeare. He was the Shakespeare of the Spanish language. And uh, his great work, his magnum opus was Don Quixote. Don Quixote is the protagonist of the book. Uh, Don Quixote is uh, a knight or in his own mind he's a knight. Um, he thinks he's fighting dragons. Really he is fighting windmills. Really he is fighting windmills. He thinks he's rescuing a princess. Uh, all types of He's He's got this fantasy life. And um, at any rate, so the whole question is if Don Quixote is mad, if he's absolutely crazy or maybe he's uh, somebody we should look up to. He's an idealist and we should be like Don Quixote. And remember last week I said the the Broadway musical Man of La Mancha which was based on Don Quixote, that the big song, the hit song

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5. 24:47But Avraham was speaking Hebrew, which is the language of creation, which is the language they…
6. 30:57We can't even fathom the type of unique mind that we're talking about. So, no wonder…
7. 37:08then really he he should be called um something like Av Hom. There's no resh in…
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