The Power of Positive Words — Parshas Matos

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

okay this joke requires a little bit of knowledge of modern Russian history and geography in order to get the joke but you're gonna see it's too perfect of a setup for this topic not to have used it so the KGB arrests this old Jew and they're trying to intimidate him back in Soviet Russia KGB so they say to the old Jew comrade where were you born he says Petersburg and where do you live now Leningrad and where would you like to die Petersburg okay like I said it takes a little bit of background but you used to call Petersburg communists called a Leningrad now it's Petersburg you know New York is me New Amsterdam and Istanbul use me Constantinople okay why are we talking about this in parshas matters Reuven been a roofing the tribe of roofing they go on a conquest of lands on the other side of the Jordan River okay Avery yarding the other side modern-day Jordan and when they're conquering these lands we read something it tells us that movin a row Vayne bono as Hesh brainless Allah lay the ace curious i-i'm the descendants of roofing built hash Bane and de la ley in Korea signed these are names of cities that's neva neva is another name of a city less bowel mine about mines another name of a city Musa boys shame Mousavi Shaywitz Mousavi shame Rashi says that these are the names that they used to have Masami che means their

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1. 0:00okay this joke requires a little bit of knowledge of modern Russian history and geography in…
2. 1:38former names that the the Emma writes the pagans that used to live there they named…
3. 3:18always has a connection to the time of the year even though seemingly it's just you…
4. 5:26he said but even friends even friends he lost his friends he became isolated he said…
5. 7:05state we know what it is to stand in front of powerful people but none of…
6. 9:10one had told me I just wanted to hear someone say thank you at that moment…
7. 10:48you see from the rebus worldview at least the way that it was conveyed to us…
8. 12:28of the sick it should be called a bed roof wha a house of healing so…
9. 14:36does this connect our first question how does this connect to Bnei Reuven conquering lands and…
10. 16:11really positive essence to everything and calling it out and using our words to describe that…

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