Has Materialism Stolen Our Soul? (Parshas Pinchas)

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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.

there was a doctor who gave a speech at a medical conference and he wrote notes and he got up to the podium and he looked at his notes and he couldn't read a word of his own handwriting so he looks in the audience he says before i begin is there a pharmacist in the house okay there's a gemara in sanhedrin it talks about a woman who was once it talks about a woman who was once very ill this is in the times of the gemara and she sought all the cures in the world for her illness and finally she was told that the only cure was to worship the idol valparaire and she said fine okay no problem she was you know she was in idle worship or anywhere she was a pagan so she said tell me about how you so she said tell me about how you worshiped valpar so they told her the manner of worship which uh what can i do i this is it's in the gemara so i'm going to tell you what it says over there i'll try to keep it as sanitized as possible but uh basically the form of worship is that they used to eat yeah and they would uh then they would empty themselves they then they would empty themselves they would uh before the idol basically that was how they would worship the idol so yeah yeah they they would eat foods that would loosen their digestive system and then they would relieve themselves before the idol yeah that was how they yeah you're following you get one thing they would eat and they would go to the bathroom in front of the idol and that

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