#27: Behind the Bima - Special Guest: Ben Shapiro

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The opening of this shiur, in Living with Emunah - Rabbi Efrem Goldberg’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. It's not our ordinary Wednesday night. It's Tuesday night 9:00 p.m., but we are here, Rabbi Efrim Goldberg, together with Rabbi Philip Moskowitz and Rabbi Josh Brody, and we're here to take you behind the Bima. I queue again, as usual, Rabbi Brody. Really perfectly timed. Thank God for you. Gentlemen, how are you? How was your week so far? We're earlier in the week than we normally are. It's only Tuesday night. My week is phenomenal. We had a fantastic, really inspiring Simchas admit. But his podcast has just a few million more listeners than ours, but we're climbing the charts. We're we're well on our way. And that is of course Ben Shapiro. Ben is beloved by many even to the degree of idol worship particularly within the Orthodox community and equally unloved by others who disagree sometimes with his opinion and style. But one thing we can say is it's really extraordinary how he has climbed the ladder and built a media empire and is an enormous influence in the world who listen and and he shapes a lot of public opinion. lot of public opinion. So I want to take the time now. I don't want when he joins us to take the time to give a little bit of his background. So let me tell for those who don't know maybe you're among the few who have never heard of Ben Shapiro. But is I hadn't heard of him until he came on behind the Bema either. So Uh nice try. Ben Shapiro is an American conservative political commentator, a media host, and he is an attorney. At the age of 17 he was the youngest youngest nationally syndicated columnist in the United States, editor emeritus of the Daily

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