Rabbi David Tawil: Life Lessons From Pirke Abot- "Conflict & Confrontation"

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

good morning everybody welcome um thank you so much to uh shelly and danny for always opening up their home to us this morning's class um as well as so and any other names if you like to add them okay um um all right first of all this is by far the nicest view i've ever had i'm giving a class yes and as julie and i were going back and forth i made sure nobody would be facing that way because otherwise who's going to want to listen to anything that i have to say at that point um so you know i've often asked myself the question you know everybody is in some kind of a profession everybody sells something everybody's in some kind of a business i've often thought myself like what kind of business am i in what kind of of business am i in what kind of profession do i do i'm a rabbi but what am i what am i selling what am i marketing off to people and you could say maybe it's religion i'm a teacher i sell education but when i really stop and think about the job that i do and what my day-to-day time is really taken up with of course it's teaching torah and instructing people on mitzvot but perhaps the most important thing that i handle is i think i'm in the relationship business people business right um which is to say that

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1. 0:00good morning everybody welcome um thank you so much to uh shelly and danny for always…
2. 5:40a few different options i could say i don't really like pizza let's choose something else…
3. 11:59grows right becomes when you don't have that when one person is always taking the internal…
4. 18:21puts me in that vulnerable position it means the other person might not like me in…
5. 24:32right so that's where your personal reflection is going to say to yourself why are these…
6. 30:40so we're living a little bit of a different lifestyle now so when we let that…
7. 37:22so you're in it so that's something right they haven't had anything to invite somebody so…
8. 43:46didn't they was it wasn't it can it maybe and that to me is much more…
9. 50:01about to hold your tongue when you know the person is not going to listen so…
10. 56:08that means you want to leave us with a final thought you had something to say…

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