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Ami Tobin on Losing His Mother, Finishing His Sefer in Miluim, and the Chinuch Career He Almost C...

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She went to psychology and then eventually down the line decided that that wasn't for her because she just didn't want to deal with that world anymore. She really felt a yearning towards Torah and she she absolutely was that, you know, fire and everything related to teaching. It was It was It was shocking. I remember where I was when I got the call. I was I when I was working I was that year at TVI and I was on my way back from a bus. I used to work 2 days at the Achava and I was on my way back and I got a call and basically said, you know, you know what? You might have cancer. And then what happened was very luckily I was in the happened was very luckily I was in the army and we were in the bush for 3 months and one weekday sent me and three friends to a random base to go and do guard duty. What am I going to do during those 7 days of 8-hour like there's so much TV you can watch or so much Torah you can do. NBA files were starting that time. I told myself, what am I going to do? So, I I said, you know what? This is a great time to get this done. I gathered all my notes and during that entire week of 8-hour, you know, hours a day I was I didn't eat I didn't eat my book and changes and doing everything and by the

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  1. 0:00She went to psychology and then eventually down the line decided that that wasn't for her
  2. 4:03of a lot of wisdom. And basically their entire concept was be a good like normal
  3. 7:35thought. I really my first love was what you were exactly describing wanting to be a
  4. 11:06Mas Basically not the greatest place in the world. You're in charge of the taxes. We
  5. 14:41great memories and moments and real value things to my core identity as a human being
  6. 18:44hoping to and hoping to always, you know, return to after all the Milim. And so,
  7. 22:19at basically Shabbos was early Shabbos was at 6:00 and this call was going to be
  8. 25:52life look like when there's such a clear >> Yeah. >> finish line? >> Yeah, that's
  9. 29:27Like, well, what does that mean? Who writes books? Right? Only only the big Only the
  10. 32:59grab someone else review this, made, you know, acknowledgements and and and dedication and and got

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