Tetzaveh: All you Need is Cheese

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

[Music] when I was in first grade my teacher world-renowned Storyteller Raba yti hers told us the following story was a poer who couldn't afford to feed his family and he heard about this far away land that had diamonds all over the street he made the proper arrangements and he bid fwell to his family and he made the long voyage across the voyage across the when he arrived he saw diamonds all over the place and he started grabbing diamonds and filling his packets with diamonds the people around him looked at him like he's crazy and he said to them what's wrong and they told him why are you picking up Pebbles and stuffing it in your pockets he told them Pebbles these are diamonds they're worth millions of dollars and they said to him in this country diamonds are worthless cheese is worth a lot of money

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1. 0:00[Music] when I was in first grade my teacher world-renowned Storyteller Raba yti hers told us…
2. 0:31voyage across the when he arrived he saw diamonds all over the place and he started…
3. 1:01worth a lot of money so over the next couple of years he worked his way…
4. 1:31said what he said sure where I came from cheese is what's worth a lot of…
5. 2:01stones the stones that filled the 12 gold settings in the breastplate the obvious question is…
6. 2:31born with them where they worked hard to acquire them just like in the story The…
7. 3:02help people to be a better person to be a better Jew to serve Hashem that…

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