What is Hakhel? | Rabbi Shais Taub in 770

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when it's 7 57 wave at me okay there's a famous interaction with the rabbit in the Reba's house on President Street in Thompson after the rabbits passing and people came to the rabbit Rabbi gave dollars in his home one of the people who came to visit was a Jew was a Jew from Bexley Ohio named Gordon Zach's Oliver shalom so he comes in and what's famous about the interaction is that within a couple of seconds that ABBA picks up a conversation with him that they left off 19 years previously and they hadn't seen each other or been in contact for those 19 years and so Gordon's acts is shocked and he's and so Gordon's acts is shocked and he's taken aback and he says you're amazing you're amazing keep saying that Eva is amazing it's 19 years we haven't spoken and you picked up the conversation right where we left off and the background to the story what was the conversation 19 years previously is that this Gordon's acts had given a speech to the United Jewish appeal about starting a 100 million dollar Endowment for Jewish Education Endowment for Jewish Education and after that speech yeah and in this was prevailing upon Mr Zacks to spend the money you should raise the money that he set out to to raise but then he should spend it in the right way meaning there are various different definitions of Jewish Education so he said he wants to raise 100 million dollars for Jewish Education but he didn't necessarily

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1. 0:02when it's 7 57 wave at me okay there's a famous interaction with the rabbit in…
2. 1:03and so Gordon's acts is shocked and he's taken aback and he says you're amazing you're…
3. 2:05Education but he didn't necessarily Define Jewish Education the way that the rabbit would Define proper…
4. 3:36then the rabbit said to him you're trying to think your way to God and it's…
5. 4:37from an educational perspective was not a very well organized class it wasn't a very good…
6. 6:10skill levels you teach them different subjects different levels of depth because that's how a class…
7. 7:15in a very interesting way you have the king reading from the Torah and yet there's…
8. 8:16but again it's not a Torah class so you have for whom this reading is way…
9. 9:49I mean it's terrifying actually I just realized how closely I'm standing to the actual spot…
10. 10:52took care of the idea there should be a hak hill and he set it up…

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