The Poor Man and the Astrologer

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

[music] Good evening from the south of Israel. This is Laser Brody with another one of Rabbi Nakman's tales. Tonight we're going to learn one of Rabbi Nakman's obscure tales. It's not so well known. This is about the poor man and the astrologer. But there's such an in-depth tale. Uh next week, God willing, we're going to do a followup and learn a going to do a followup and learn a section of liquid moran that Rabbi Nakman is alluding to in this tales. So in other words, this tale is really a preparation to say Rabbi Nakman have his teachings by telling simple tales and people that couldn't understand deep concepts. Well, the tales open up their hearts and by understanding one of the simple stories is al is allegorories that we better understand the Torah. So this is really a shid that between the tale of the poor man and the astrologer and we're going to begin the Torah tonight give a little taste of it and tonight give a little taste of it and then continue on next week. So that that's our plan look at the how to get the most benefit out of uh these lessons. So bizarre we ask ourselves in Rabbi Nakwin's famous tale it's obscure but very famous the poor man and the astrologer how can an upright person be a common thief you maybe heard about someone that's an upright person but they did something absolutely out of character and they say how could a person do something like this and it's a really scandalous behavior and just understand why well it

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1. 0:06[music] Good evening from the south of Israel. This is Laser Brody with another one of…
2. 4:43But she was relentless. She was relentless. No, I can't stand this poverty anymore. You have…
3. 9:19couldn't believe it here the doctor says she's going to have Siamese twins and I hear…
4. 14:00him, says you want to tell me, you don't want to tell me, you got to…
5. 18:42things. said, "Don't we don't believe our eyes. We don't believe our ears. We don't believe…
6. 23:19they had a garage in uh Alabama and there was a hurricane in Alabama and they…
7. 28:00grave." So since he had risked his life to steal the precious cars of all palace…
8. 32:40that the end of a thief is at the end of a rope and a noose.…
9. 37:17breathover tradition has it that while telling this tale the reb repeated again told the tale…
10. 41:49second portion we elaborate the whole Torah next week. Bazatashem. Bazatashem. But Rabbi Nakman writes like…

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