Caller: "I never met my father..."

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

Hello, Rabbi. Hello, Mr. Garland. >> Hi, Mosha. How you doing? >> Good. Thank you for having me on the call. >> My honor. Okay, what are we talking about tonight? >> So, I have two questions. I'll start with my background and go start the first one. Basically, my entire life, I've had no connection with my dad. He hasn't been present from before I was even born. I've never spoken to him. I don't know anything about him. And a few years ago, I found out that he has a son-in-law, my brother-in-law, who runs a yeshiva in Jerusalem and who does share him online. So, >> being curious, I happen to Huh? >> I'm I'm just translating for everyone. He gives classes online. >> Yeah. >> Okay. So, he's sort of like a prestigious uh scholar. >> Yeah. And now you're saying this is >> the husband of your sister. >> Yes. From my dad's side. >> Now this is a half sister. This is a half sister. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Different mother. >> Yeah. >> Do you know this sister? >> No. >> Okay. All right. Continue, please. I'm sorry for interrupting me. >> So I started watching a lot of his classes and I started getting really into it. I started resonating with it. And I often hear him saying in his classes, if you have any questions, you could email me, talk to me, whatever about. And I feel like this very weird

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1. 0:00Hello, Rabbi. Hello, Mr. Garland. >> Hi, Mosha. How you doing? >> Good. Thank you for…
2. 1:32position where on the one hand, >> I like this rabbi. He happens to be my…
3. 3:45it's like food and water and air and sleep. It's like it's not a luxury. It's…
4. 5:22>> Yeah. >> And then be a father. >> Yeah. That would be a very nice…
5. 7:30classes are. Did At what point did you know he was your brother-in-law before or after…
6. 9:33particularly like your work in it or you're you don't feel >> No, I was great.…
7. 11:47the one hand I've had a weird relationship when it comes to like all his work…
8. 13:20rewriting it in a safer way that's a few layers removed from the, you know, the…
9. 15:34again I I if this resonates great if it doesn't you know that people in this…
10. 17:15big enough to be able to hold that for you and hold it with you. And…

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