How Open Minded Should Our Children Be? | Parsha Yisro

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi YY Jacobson’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

[Music] good evening they tell the story about a rabbi who once came outside of his synagogue to search for a tenth man for the minion he had only nine people in shul and he needed a tenth to complement the minion so he's waiting for somebody to pass by somebody passes by the rabbi stops him and says excuse me sir are you Jewish yes I am would you mind to join us please in the shul we're really looking for the tenth we want to have a minion we only have nine people and the man says rabbi no I will not join you I'm sorry why not the rabbi asks and the man says I don't believe in organized religion the rabbi says so what I also don't believe in organized religion you rabbi you don't believe in organized religion absolutely not the rabbi says if I would believe in organized religion that you think I would be standing outside here looking for the tenth person for a minion now this anecdote I think is a suitable introduction to the figure the fascinating figure in the Hebrew Bible in the himesh we want to discuss this evening and this is the figure of Easter Oh Jethro the father-in-law of Moses of Moshe Rabbeinu who was discussed in the portion of Easter I named after him Jethro in the book of Exodus so the Torah begins the portion of Easter I how he took his daughter to pyrrha Moses his

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