Rabbi Mordechai Becher: Interview with Chief Rabbi Goldstein

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

Thank You first me for coming all the way to South Africa to participate in this year's I know and I bet there's a lot of excitement for your visit and we're really grateful that you've come so far it's my pleasure and honor okay great we could really speak about anything because you know your field of study is is vast and really I know when we were looking at different topics to choose from with for you to speak at sana and I but really it ranges from to everything but I know that there you have a particular specialty and interest in Jewish history and what's fascinating me about Jewish history is that when one me about Jewish history is that when one uses the word history it automatically brings connotations of something which is boring and dusty and irrelevant to today in other words there's a sense of well it's important to know what happened to the world in the past but what bearing does that have today and and that's a question one could ask about general history and and I think that there is a lot to be learned from what happened having a bit of context and I think one of the great ills that we live within the modern world is because attention span is shorter and shorter and shorter you're not used to be a new cycle used to be 24 hours and

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2. 2:39Jerusalem were born in Jerusalem on their United States birth certificate it says born in Jerusalem…
3. 5:13and determine when he'd kill the Jews ask people you ever seen a poor no it…
4. 8:15sensitive this oldest continued tradition ism it's an amazing thing and when you also look at…
5. 10:50of the morrow that everything that you mean to well it's actually about context that shows…
6. 13:54camel on his Aleph bait look another kid doodles and Niall boat on his Olivet look…
7. 16:26and you can see an asura italki and these are terms which yeshiva students know but…
8. 18:59history and seeing it with a full perspective running this is what you've been saying to…
9. 22:06on those streets that that is something which is absolutely miraculous I sort of tell you…
10. 24:40of Judaism because this and you know it sort of intersects with a lot of the…

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