Late to Minyan

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

Someone's ghost is walking to shul, shacharis on a Tuesday starts at 7:30 and it's 7:50. He's 20 minutes late. Okay, he's late. And he's walking in. As he gets out of his car and as he's walking in what's going through his brain is like a million reasons why it's really not a big deal that I'm late. I had to help my wife. I had to help the kids. You know, it probably was a mitzvah for me to stay home and be late. Yeah, I hit snooze 17 times, but now I'm going to have more strength for the rest of my day. And you know, you know, I really have a little bit of a cold. So I slept and now I'm going to feel better. So you know, there's a mitzvah of a chiyuv ha guf. It's a mitzvah to take care of your body. And at a million miles a minute all these thoughts are like flushing through one's mind as he walks in 20 minutes late. And the moment he opens the door, he like he walks in all calm,

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1. 0:00Someone's ghost is walking to shul, shacharis on a Tuesday starts at 7:30 and it's 7:50.…
2. 0:31me to stay home and be late. Yeah, I hit snooze 17 times, but now I'm…
3. 1:02cool, collected like as if he's right on time. And if you were to pause, freeze,…
4. 1:32the way we view and judge ourselves >> Being late. >> And if we were to…
5. 2:06good at explaining and like with like you know, acrobatics. Why what we did is not…
6. 2:39see faults, you know, I'm just such a positive person. Really? Really? But that guy you…

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