Is Torah Not Enough Anymore? | Rav Nissan Kaplan | Behind the Bima #198

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The opening of this shiur, in Parsha Perspectives - Rabbi Efrem Goldberg’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

[music] >> Welcome back behind the Bima. We have a great conversation with Robinson Kaplan Shlita the Russia Shiva who has such insight from his own personal experience and as someone who teaches so many tell me that before and when Moscow it's What's new? >> We had a show dinner last week. >> We did. >> And it was spectacular amazing to wonderful honorees a really hard working committee on it. Um, but dinners are different than at least from I remember growing up my parents the way they spoke about dinners. Um, maybe people's relationship with community with centralized community has changed a little bit their need to attend dinners and give back is definitely changed a little bit. So um, you know, it's such a beautiful night of celebration of our community but it also revealed you know, some some of the challenges and headwinds that communities face. >> It's interesting that you bring that up. First of all it's a beautiful night and we're incredibly grateful to the chairs who work tirelessly to put it together and of course the Millers and Marcus's deserved and we're grateful um, for their service to our community. It was a beautiful night. It's not a reflection on our dinner. It's it's it's one of those things that hasn't evolved. Right? It used to be there were dinner dances for certain segments of the community and they became dinners, gala dinners, events. [snorts] Um, but it hasn't evolved as the world changed. Meaning when dinner started there were no online charity campaigns matching cause match. Um, when dinner started there were no Venmo and Zelle and credit card readers and when dinner started it was a different world. >> Right. >> And it sort of hasn't evolved. So on the one hand it's really important to come

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