20: If I Could Be Someone Else...

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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.

[Music] hi this is Deborah laughs Sookie and welcome to the rabbi Orlovsky show thank you very much and whether you're watching with our good friends on tour anytime calm or wherever you listen to your podcasts it is so nice to have you along for this exciting journey I am back from America I did a Shabbos for a wonderful I did a Shabbos for a wonderful organization called KF Tunis which is you may not be able to pick this up but it is a Hasidic organization and if you look at the edge you'll see 12 struggles and me yeah I was the token Litvak and I was one of the few people actually speaking in English I can't speak Yiddish I can't speak it it's been an embarrassment to me my entire life especially when you know I was younger he'd meet these older people and they would ride away just talking to you and would ride away just talking to you and yet if they use don't you spoke Yiddish and I said I don't speak Yiddish you don't speak Jewish you had Jew yeah those big Jewish how do you not speak Jewish it sounds worse than English you don't speak Jewish but the truth is that my parents spoke Yiddish my father grew up in a hitter's speaking home and my mother grew up and bilingual but it was their secret language when they didn't want us to know what they were saying they would speaking Yiddish so I you know can I do I didn't pick it up and

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