104: Fearless

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

uh Rav Benzion ben Rav Mordechai. So uh may Hashem give us zchus for the uh for the nifter zchus for the mishpacha and uh we should uh only know simchas, good things. Now uh full disclosure, my um my memory is not what it used to be and it wasn't anything to brag about when it used to be either. Um I think probably it's genetic uh my father uh when he was my age, most people's names were uh uh uh Anyway, so um so I sometimes say things. No, that's not really fair. I often say things and I don't remember having said them. In fact, sometimes I listen to recordings of old shiurim of mine and I am fascinated. And and I ask a kasha and I'm like, "Wow, that's good. Wonder what the answer is, you know?" When I hear it, I'm like, "Wow, that's unbelievable. How did I come up with that?" But uh but it's an interesting thing that uh sometimes I really forget and I have to see from someplace else. So, for example, um I used to uh I used to teach in a seminary, and one time I saw that girls had a bulletin board for their own personal use. Where they put up meaningful quotes from different rabbis. And they had one up there for me that I never remember having said. And uh it was brilliant. It was the same. Um I'll share it with you now, and it really belongs in a context that's from my muscle to sharm share. But uh but it says "Most people live the life that happens

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