Mystical Optimist - Rav Joey Rosenfeld | Meaningful People #48
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Huge. Bam, bam, bam. That is our new intro song. Welcome back to Meaningful People Podcast. I'm Yaakov Langer. And I'm Nachi Gordon. And this week we have a very interesting, amazing, holy person. Deep individual. Who I I don't know how you first heard about him. I first heard about him through Twitter. How about you? I think he was on the cover of Mishpacha. Yeah? I could be mixing him up. wasn't, he should be. If he wasn't, he should be. He's a deep individual. Rabbi Joey Rosenfeld, living all the way out there in St. Louis, Missouri, doing holy work. Um but we got him here in our office. Yeah. For a beautiful conversation. working on getting him for a while, but he's just he was just so busy back there. Back there? And that's not like he's out in the backyard or something. He's in the Midwest, yeah. Yeah, he's there, but he came in and we got to get to know who he is, what he's up to. And you get to know a lot more about Chassidus, cuz he's so connected to it. And um you could just see it in his eyes when he when he's giving shiur, when he speaks. Like sometimes look at his eyes and his eyes are just like up, you know? He's he's connected to a higher source. If you haven't heard If you haven't listened to any of his shiurim, definitely go check them out after you get to know a little more about Rabbi Joey. But either way, enjoy the rest of this episode. Welcome to the Meaningful People Podcast. The podcast where we talk to people who are meaningful. Yeah, that sounds good. We're sitting here with Rabbi Joey Rosenfeld, fresh off a plane from St. Louis. Thank you so much for coming in. Just specially for this, right?
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- 5:48Yisrael offers a person. Meaning I went to summer camps and I went to Masorah and…
- 12:11Mekubalim, whether it's the Baal Shem Tov Hasidus, the students of the Vilna Gaon, contemporary thinkers,…
- 18:37me and he says, "You know, I got to tell you, I was out there and…
- 24:52it, to contemplate it, to stare at it unflinchingly instead of running away into some falsehood…
- 31:10the things that'll make you feel better. Okay. I'm getting upset. No, I I know and…
- 38:00screamed out in a very loud voice. And Rabbi Nosson writes that he spent a lot…
- 44:20through death than we would have been without death. And so, I I would say that…
- 50:35with uh you know, words that can't be fully understood properly. You know, the Torah deserves…
- 56:55Not my pet peeve, kind of the thing that breaks me anytime is if a child…
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