Shofar on the Beach | Rabbi Moshe Taub

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[music] >> I recently heard a maiseh that I'm excited [music] to share. There was a meshulach, a shadar, someone who collected money for Yeshiva from Eretz Yisrael. [music] He would come in once a year to Chicago, New York, Toronto, and he would always stop in Miami Beach both to collect and to see his one cousin who lived in America. A chiloni from Haifa, but a cousin is a cousin. He would knock on his door, take him [music] and his wife out to a kosher restaurant, and go back to Eretz Yisrael, see him again next year. One year, after Chicago, next year. One year, after Chicago, after New [music] York, and Cleveland, and Toronto, he went to Miami, collected money, knocked on his cousin's door. [music] The man who answered the door was unrecognizable. He had a beard, a yarmulke. His wife had a tichel. Sit down, my eye. He tells him the following story. Formerly a cousin, I jog every day. We live here on the beach. One day, I'm jogging, and a bachur comes over to me holding [music] a shofar, and he says, "Today is Rosh Hashanah. Are you Jewish? Did you hear the shofar?" And I thought to myself, "I'm not religious. [music] I've never been religious, but it's Rosh Hashanah. Have I fallen so far as an

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1. 0:01[music] >> I recently heard a maiseh that I'm excited [music] to share. There was a…
2. 0:31next year. One year, after Chicago, after New [music] York, and Cleveland, and Toronto, he went…
3. 1:01Hashanah. Have I fallen so far as an American [music] that I don't even know when…
4. 1:32on [music] tzitzis, my wife attended classes, we started keeping Shabbos. He named me Moshe ben…
5. 2:04explain why did Hashem wait to show me this sign, to have me bump into this…
6. 2:35Hashanah? But with a yarmulke. With that very [music] first step to do something, no matter…

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