A talk by Rabbi Eli Scheller on the power of storytelling.
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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Shay Tahan’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.
we're missing a substitute today do you mind substituting a class I said on one condition if I could bring in my guitar so I walk into the class kids were ripping up pieces of paper and throwing it at me hey I'm a substitute can I uh take out up my guitar uh yeah I didn't know exactly what I was going to do I said one time one time and everyone slowly like sits in their seats wow this is powerful and then like that night one of the boys mothers calls me up they never had a substitute like this ever and then a job opening for a rubby and and then a job opening for a rubby and my wife said I think this is your thing no it's not she says I think it's your thing you got to listen to your wife because they know better it's not what you're going to teach it's what they're going to learn the whole class met me in the hallway and they sang the song that I composed I said wow that I think this is like my [Music] field bar field bar and welcome to Torah talks kazak's Tuesday night program with a special guest and we have with us tonight all the way from Lakewood New Jersey rabell sh Shalom wow so exciting to have the rabbi in the program thank you thank you I've always seen your stuff and heard about you and it's I hope the good stuff only good stuff you guys are just you know pop out programs the Jewish people so we want to hear a little background the rabbi and
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- 0:00we're missing a substitute today do you mind substituting a class I said on one condition…
- 3:01and school was never my thing sitting down in a seat by a desk was never…
- 6:39so I contined every Thursday night and and inspired these boys and and it was we…
- 10:19the day I'm not a a BT and I just felt like I couldn't connect a…
- 13:54could bring in my guitar he said listen it was never done but okay so do…
- 17:29the job wow and then the rest is history I was I was in fifth grade…
- 21:01the just shot it's good and the Chicago he's like oh no we're middle of class…
- 24:39want to go back home so his father and shom go back on the train back…
- 28:12jumping out of your seat you're probably the next inventor of Tesla or something like that…
- 31:53an exact place like every day it's in a different location different spot said okay okay…
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