What they're NOT saying about the viral scandal

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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, so from the headlines, astronomer CEO caught with HR chief on Coldplay Kiss Cam resigns amid scandal. A viral moment at a Coldplay concert has led to the resignation. Okay, goes on again. If you don't know what this is talking about, you don't need to know. Trust me, your life is not missing anything if you don't know. I guess I wish I didn't know, but I do know. A lot of people were asking, could you comment on this? I don't really have a lot to say about it, but I do want to just mention one aspect of this because I think so much has been said about this incident um that there's not a lot for me to add. I saw a comment, I don't even want to mention from whom, but a person who's just a the real term for it, by the way, is a gadfly. You can go Google that word, but a gadfly basically is somebody who intentionally and you might call a troll actually today, but somebody who intentionally engages in annoying discourse just for the sake of it. So, someone was making a a comment. I think it's a a crass comment like if you're going to go do something stupid where you're going to lose half your fortune, you know, why would you do it over this whatever that the the the implication was that this woman who the CEO was ostensibly allegedly having an affair with she she he could have picked somebody younger or more attractive. That was the the implication. So that really

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1. 0:00Okay, so from the headlines, astronomer CEO caught with HR chief on Coldplay Kiss Cam resigns…
2. 1:05someone was making a a comment. I think it's a a crass comment like if you're…
3. 2:09think this is about even romance. You think this is even about a man and a…
4. 3:12from being higher than rules from being you know in sort of like a like a…
5. 4:14of it. I'm out in public doing this. That's why that other employee from the company…
6. 5:15sound like I'm only focusing on him. She's uh you know they're two P's in a…
7. 6:16technical term, are HR ladies. Okay. There's a reason why men who want to show their…
8. 7:16vague generalities that could be true about so many different people. Like what are we gaining…
9. 8:18because the only way they're capable of feeling anything is by breaking rules and showing that…
10. 9:18a fault in you. It's not even that they're taking advantage of a weakness in you.…

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