How Are You Not Afraid To Be Yourself?

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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.

Hi, this is David Deowski with that question answer series. Kana asks, "How are you not afraid to be yourself in a firm world that is suffocated with extremes, dos and don'ts? You got to make your own kind of music. Play your own special song." I had a whole tape of songs like this cuz it's all right now. I learned my lesson. Well, you see, you can't please everyone, so you got to please yourself everyone, so you got to please yourself la. My general principle in life is you can't be wrong by being right. And just because everybody does something, you have to decide whether that's right or not. Now, I came to I was guy. We don't dress yeshivish. I mean, not the way that the world dresses yes, black and white. We dress the way they did in Europe. So, I came at and I was dressed yes. I had brown slacks and a tan jacket, blue shirt, slacks and a tan jacket, blue shirt, nice blue tan tie, brought it all together, had my hush puppies, my white straw hat, and I couldn't get a kuza. They told me afterwards they thought I was a tourist. So, uh, so, okay. So, I changed my outfit and uh started dressing black and white and I went back to America and somebody says to me, "It's all there, but it doesn't look right." I said, "Why? What am I doing wrong?" Because you smile too much. If you want to be a real you have

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1. 0:00Hi, this is David Deowski with that question answer series. Kana asks, "How are you not…
2. 0:32everyone, so you got to please yourself la. My general principle in life is you can't…
3. 1:04slacks and a tan jacket, blue shirt, nice blue tan tie, brought it all together, had…
4. 1:34much. If you want to be a real you have the grimace. [snorts] I said, "Sorry,…
5. 2:05"Listen, the shahhatim say that if you're involved in k then boys don't want you. So,…
6. 2:35know in the firm world that's already like you know you know 75 and uh she…
7. 3:06sneez I'd rather stay single for the rest of my life I'm not going to drive…
8. 3:37I had a daughter once that uh they had some uniform shirt and some kind of…
9. 4:07jacket, I take off my tie, take off my hat, I usually stop there, and uh…

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