#126: Behind the Bima: Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis

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The opening of this shiur, in Living with Emunah - Rabbi Efrem Goldberg’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

rabbis Ephraim Goldberg Philip Moskowitz and Josh Brody are taking you behind the bema the BRS Rabbi schmooze about contemporary issues and talk to special guests who give up behind the scenes look at how they got to where they are and what keeps them going welcome to behind the bema good evening Wednesday night nine o'clock I'm not laughing over joined by my dear friend and colleague and Superstar partner in Jewish life Rabbi Joshua Brody and we're here to take you behind the Beamer we're gonna take you behind the bema's very special night tonight the cusp of the incredible holiday where we're going to stand together arm and arm we're going to accept and receive the Torah together but tonight was an incredibly special program in Boca Raton where are you right now what is that background I'm actually in the Jewish Federation I don't know any other Jewish Federation in the whole world that took its main theater where you have the graduations and the plays and turned it into a basement was set up for you know almost 300 people and it was just a beautiful show of actors of people caring for one another how many people how many were there there were 300 seats set up maybe not everything was taken but it was really just a special evening to uh to show to show that that uh that unity and uh what better night to do it you told me let's do it before shovel was tonight is the night Matan Torah would be tomorrow so

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1. 0:00rabbis Ephraim Goldberg Philip Moskowitz and Josh Brody are taking you behind the bema the BRS…
2. 5:49got the Safari group doing their thing and the and the shible doing their thing and…
3. 12:14because it's listening oh it's so weird it's not weird it's listening it's not even debatable…
4. 18:38um September is a time when the royal family is always on holiday in Scotland you…
5. 25:03Friday between her death and the funeral that the new king because he became the Monarch…
6. 31:41which I I announced publicly from the moment I became Chief rabbi um I don't know…
7. 38:00given how extraordinary they were so it's an enormous effort for me to occupy the position…
8. 44:21Chief Rabbi in what ways did they meet your expectations in what ways did they surpass…
9. 50:46outside of Israel which is seeing a growth in the Jewish population year round year is…
10. 57:24great pleasure and a huge circle to you and for everything you're doing thank you so…

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