Why am I an orthodox jew

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

[Music] spiritually here in Asia tour in the old city of jerusalem overlooking the western wall we I'm taking a few western wall we I'm taking a few questions today so you can type in maybe you can read come and said if anyone wants to ask a question they can ask okay and so this was a question yes I was raised not observant you want to know why I became observant so what maybe became unobservant you and then what made me stay two things one is God and the others Tara first God is that I I when when I contemplated I don't know why I never came to the God idea I think that I was so influenced by my millennial you know kind of godless environment growing up I think that I I just never thought about God really because I wasn't raised in any kind of religious setting and and any kind of religious setting and and God just wasn't part of things and so I just figured God was for like religious people like which to me was religious / dumb like I thought religious people were just missing missing something upstairs I don't know why I just did I just thought they were they weren't thinking things out they were taking someone's take someone they were believing in some

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2. 3:14and your thoughts definitely not you know you want a surveillance camera and microphone and everything…
3. 6:56them religious and and religions clearly dumb and and and it's also but you know the…
4. 10:31too much clothing on a hot summer day for modesty gee that sounds fun you know…
5. 14:05that little point on the map and and then they sent you to schools there are…
6. 17:44take on and and meanwhile the basis of your sanity which is the fictional agreement you're…
7. 20:52while you find a guilt person that was charged as guilty and sat for years only…
8. 24:26what's wrong and what's right will depend on your education but you do have that inside…
9. 28:00more than that because it's all in one anyway it's all gone what's the difference at…
10. 31:40breach your contract with your inner compass that's how your life's gonna come out in the…

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