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Rabbi, What Should I Tell My Atheist Relative On Their Death-Bed?

Rabbi Chaim Mintz

Rabbi Chaim Mintz discusses how to approach an atheist relative on their deathbed.

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

Joe melon wants to know Joe how know Joe yeah right Uncle Joe camera's over [Music] there Joe okay sounds like a the very popular Uncle Joe Mendon um he has a question do if there's somebody who is agnostic or unaffiliated non-believer um who relative is uh is near death and he who relative is uh is near death and he wants to know what he can say to this person to anything he can say if uh well uh the best thing to say to that person is to talk about Amun talk about faith in God they say they don't believe but if you talk to them and it go through their mind and they hear it and they even they said well maybe maybe it's true maybe the agnostic told the non-believers but if you talk about it and discuss it on by the death bed and they hear you and they're uh thinking

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  1. 0:00Joe melon wants to know Joe how know Joe yeah right Uncle Joe camera's over [Music]
  2. 0:32who relative is uh is near death and he wants to know what he can say
  3. 1:04they hear you and they're uh thinking about what you're saying just the fact goes through
  4. 1:34best thing to talk about Amun and belief and and faith in God and about Torah
  5. 2:05he has a whole video about him about his life about his maybe she bring it

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