Never in Vain | Rabbi Daniel Coren

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

[music] >> Shmiras Hanayim is one of the incredible challenges of this generation, and so many times people come to me and tell me, [music] "I can't do it. It's just not worthwhile. I'm going to fail. Even if I pass one test, 3 minutes later I'm falling again and again and again." So, I want to share with you a story that [music] actually took place probably over 20 years ago. I was to run what's called Project Inspire. I [music] was myself just learning and trying to learn the skills in order to be able to bring someone closer to Judaism. And I found someone closer to Judaism. And I found myself on a plane flying to Eretz Yisrael. >> [music] >> It was one of those great flights where you wake up in the one or two hours into the flight and you're ready ready to daven and I decided, "Okay, great. I'm going to take my I'm going to walk to the back [music] and I'm going to find a little spot where I'll be able to daven." As I'm walking and I'm holding my I see [music] what looked to me like an Israeli. Here's a cure opportunity. I'm giving all these classes already about how to reach out and inspire [music] people. This is the opportunity. So, as I'm walking by, I said to him, "Do you want to put on tefillin?" He looked at me and

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1. 0:04[music] >> Shmiras Hanayim is one of the incredible challenges of this generation, and so many…
2. 0:34someone closer to Judaism. And I found myself on a plane flying to Eretz Yisrael. >>…
3. 1:05to put on tefillin?" He looked at me and said, "No, thank you." Okay, rejection. And…
4. 1:35that's actually teaching how to do cure." Anyway, long story short, we finally get to Eretz…
5. 2:06half an hour later, the guy sitting next to me said, 'Do you want to put…
6. 2:36be able to get tefillin onto the seat." And so many times in life, we give…

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