Moshe Taragin: Does Israel Need American Jews?

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It is really such a privilege and pleasure to be sitting with a leader of Tom of Rebbe who I have had the privilege of knowing mostly from a distance. We've interacted a handful of times, you know, in in in person, but somebody who I've really admired from a distance. Thank you so much Rabbi Meish Taragin for joining us today. Thank you for having me. It's a pleasure to be here sitting in your backyard. A lovely autumn afternoon. This is this is beyond this is beyond special. So I really wanted to begin because not everyone knows this. I know because not everyone knows this. I know this because I have such an affinity when I was growing up with Camp Monc. I did not go to Camp Monc, but every one of my close friends did. I was afraid of sleepover camp until I was way into my teenage years. So anytime Camp Monc would come up or Zaba or any of it insider. That's that's a deep cut. That's a deep cut insider. You know, Monc or back talk. But you're most people know you as the you know, like a figurehead or the face at least in America of Yeshivas Har Etzion who was America of Yeshivas Har Etzion who was known as the Gush. And your upbringing was incredibly different from that. You didn't you weren't raised in a in the Dati Leumi world. Tell me a little bit of when the first time you made the decision so to speak to make Aliyah and to join a different community than the one you were brought up in. Oh wow. That's a very very good starting question. Um the 70s were very different time. The ideological boundaries were much less much softer. They were less rigid.

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1. 0:00It is really such a privilege and pleasure to be sitting with a leader of Tom…
2. 6:09go to a modern Orthodox day camp, you know, the kids there are not reading Milton…
3. 12:14Um but I did tell Tommy to not to not to not to follow that story…
4. 18:19we're headed you always use religious terminology. It's not you're not you're not playing in the…
5. 24:22mostly pre-October 7th, but I've heard it post-October 7th, where people do not want to make…
6. 30:30searching. It was my moment where I looked into the mirror and said, for whatever reason,…
7. 36:40to have the opportunity to not just be a pawn of history, but an author of…
8. 42:49but just the sacrifice that it took in my safer that you alluded to before I…
9. 48:53their endless search for absolute authenticity fall into a rabbit hole they can never escape from.…
10. 54:58Rachamna l'tzlan and other people were seriously injured. But this is 72 people were killed. 72…

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