The Past Lives Through Us | Rabbi Mordechai Becher | ITVOG Ep. 31

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

The fact is that I'm sure the men of the great assembly were 120 rabbis amongst them a number of prophets. These are the only three quotes? I mean, seriously? I mean, obviously everything in Pirkei Avot are selected quotes. Got a person who's who God's speaking through, so to speak. You've got a person who is telling you what's your goal in life, your unique goal of your soul. So, it was a very different type of situation. You had manifestation of Hashem's presence. >> There's so much that religion has to offer. If only people would rather than offer. If only people would rather than I I fear that the people that do not embrace their Jewish identity as much, they're people that were never really you know, learn it. >> Their knowledge of Judaism is from um is from Seinfeld um or uh Larry, what's his name? >> We all have been watching, but you study how the Jewish history is unfolding and each chapter is being written. What is a message that we are learning and what's one message that we just seem to not really get? >> Hello everyone. Today we're joined by Rabbi Mordecai Becher. Rabbi Mordecai Becher is a Jewish historian and rabbinic scholar. We discuss today three really important things. Number one, the evolution of Jewish history. Two, the evolution of prayer and practice within Jewish observant thought. And lastly, we discuss the difference between assimilation and adaptation and what that's looked like for our culture and our religion throughout the ages. I learned a lot and hope you do too. Enjoy. >> Thank you so much for joining us here today. >> Pleasure to be here. Thank you. >> Of course. So, you have a very long list

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1. 0:00The fact is that I'm sure the men of the great assembly were 120 rabbis amongst…
2. 6:10was much less emphasized and was much less the inheritance of the entire Jewish people than…
3. 12:21far more uh post the destruction you know, uh 10 Leon Yavneh the says of Yohanan…
4. 18:27chain all the way through, chronological chain. And it was during that time that there was…
5. 24:37in shul, but first temple era wasn't wasn't as necessary. >> So, we have a fork…
6. 30:46that um Where is it? Ah, here we go. Hatanaim v'Amoraim the Tanaim Amoraim how you…
7. 36:51possibly that in other words um it's something like in in certain martial arts like Aikido…
8. 42:59Hebrew letters with lots of Hebrew shown in. I'm sure if you'd ask most Yeshiva students…
9. 49:10>> So I I probably know it by the translation. But in any event, so in…
10. 55:15faith. And and I don't know any of them that were incredibly, you know, learned it.…

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