Rabbi Chaim Mintz gives a weekly class at Oorah's Torah Spot in Staten Island.
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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Chaim Mintz’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.
RAB said that we talked we have two kinds of prayers the formal prayers and our prayers personal prayers to Hashem his a class before this earlier class I guess it means The JCC class the question was do we bother God when we repent we bother God when we pray to him for mundane things is asking if we bother for mundane things is it bothering God when we ask him for no no no God loves when he ask for anything because we ask him we show that comes from him that me we we show that comes from him that me we believe in him that he's the almighty and he's the one who gives us what we have so if we ask for mundane things we ask for uh uh whatever we ask for somebody ask for uh that the Jets should win the game I mean it's so you know so it's up to God to have to make it so it's up the person's on that level of uh that's what he needs so uh so God is but you say God's up to you so it's uh it's up to God to do it's up to God to do it that that whole story I don't know if you heard about the story about the uh about the cootel about the uh about the game andbody said that story before you know about the story I think you probably heard the story that the guy this when he wrote his crle on the did you ever that didn't said over no it's a very interesting story that the real story that happened that uh there's this um young man who went to Israel to study uh he was a scholarly boy was a
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- 1:34study uh he was a scholarly boy was a young person and he's I guess about…
- 2:06even yaka and he's a young person and he had a sweatshirt uh which was who's…
- 2:37what no it wasn't TI whatever we call the cowo okay cowo that's that's a famous…
- 3:09and the paper said the following he said God I'm a Cowboys fan and there's a…
- 3:40gets his friend on the phone tell me what happened with the Cowboys game today so…
- 4:11today said you know yeah the cab won and this guy this play and that play…
- 4:42him he went to the cot he prayed with all his might and God answered his…
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