Role Models For The World - Rabbi Elazar Meisels (Kiddush Hashem) STORY

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in the position where I have to explain what it means to be an Orthodox Jewish hematism to people who are not from but I need them to be exquisitely sensitive to Terror and Mitzvahs and to some of the sensitivities of our community and what we need and how you know we're careful we don't shake hands with members of the opposite gender and we don't pick up our phones on Shabbos and we don't want to learn about certain subjects and we don't want to have to read certain books and so on and so forth so in one college that I was dealing with uh the president made a suggestion to me and the president said to me I think we should do a sensitivity training but for every single member of the entire College I said okay great let's do it by all means so I came down one day with another faculty member of mine and we were to address the entire faculty of the college which is over 250 people and it was in a big theater style room with many many you know all the way from floor to ceiling very very tall big room we were on the stage and everybody was sitting in these theater seats and we went on and we were talking and I was explaining all kinds of different things why I wear yamaka and what my titties represent and why a woman would cover her here and what our names mean and we went from thing to think to thing no there's one thing that I'm always very conscious of and we tell the students this a lot we always say every time you have to call somebody in the college for assistance just please remember that you don't just

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1. 0:30in the position where I have to explain what it means to be an Orthodox Jewish…
2. 1:30on the stage and everybody was sitting in these theater seats and we went on and…
3. 2:31on so I did I said you know people I want to tell you something um…
4. 3:32it was a guy all the way up in the cheap seats you know all the…
5. 4:32room 250 people start clapping and cheering yeah yeah and I'm thinking to myself wow boy…
6. 6:03place that there's no Jews their campus doesn't even have a Hillel nothing no Jewish representation…
7. 7:04that's so nice uh you know what does that mean he says oh yeah he was…
8. 8:05or in the beginning of the meeting because you know he somehow figured out how to…
9. 9:06there was nobody talking there was none of that backstabbing there was none of that undermining…
10. 10:09kids Hashem that he made actually found out his name and I looked him up and…

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