What's R' Orlofsky's Favorite Shmuel Kunda Tape?

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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.

Hi, this is Dov Revelsky with our question and answer series. What is Dov Revelsky's favorite work of Reb Shmuel Kunda? Every now and then people say, "Why don't you only deal with serious questions?" Because I'm not a serious guy and my audience aren't serious people and so I deal with whatever questions come my way. But this is to me a particularly important topic and I'll tell you why. >> [snorts] >> Because um many years ago uh 20 years, maybe 25 years ago, I don't know. Uh the English Hamodia asked me to write a column on Chinuch. It was very interesting. There was somebody who was writing and they wanted to have another perspective. Then they added a third person. When they added a fourth fourth person writing, I said then I'm not really that important, so I dropped out. But um uh but at the time it was just two of us writing, so I wrote every other week. And uh I would try to find topics that I thought would be relevant to people. L'maaseh, not just theoretical. And in fact, I have a whole folder of half-finished articles that I had written because I was halfway through and I said, "This sounds trite." >> [laughter] >> It's not edgy. It's not edgy enough for me, you know. So so at one point I wrote a column on children's tapes. Because that was in fact something that was important to me. Um I had a lot of kids and they

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1. 0:00Hi, this is Dov Revelsky with our question and answer series. What is Dov Revelsky's favorite…
2. 0:3320 years, maybe 25 years ago, I don't know. Uh the English Hamodia asked me to…
3. 1:35listened to different tapes and not all the time do I feel like uh proper Torah…
4. 2:06wonderful things. Uh, but what I didn't like about this is that Kiwi, who's the good…
5. 3:09And that's really the key. The key, you don't want to do a children's tape that's…
6. 3:39you want to make that call person to person? That's person to person. They don't even…
7. 4:39knows, you know? Anyway, I get a call from Shmuel Kunda. And and this is the…
8. 5:10acknowledged what I do. No one has ever publicly pointed out that I'm prepared that I'm…
9. 6:11know, uh I am the mayor and then done done done, you know. Um then done…
10. 6:41um one of his uh kids apparently dropped off all of his CDs in my mailbox.…

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