Class Title: Life, Learning and Leading. Moreshet Yerushalayim

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

okay so as we're giving out the machine uh let's let's uh talk about a couple of things so uh i'll give you a quick background on uh so i uh i was issued a flat push my whole in those days though you can you could make it through the unclass without much of a background in gemara so i didn't have much in gemara so i didn't have much i was going to brandeis university uh one of my teachers who was very close to me dr joel convinced me that my life would be much different if i took the year in israel this was a long time ago so i came here with one other person from the syrian community a total of two people period a total of two people period one night by else here and all many of you she bought that we have now we didn't have they simply didn't exist i went to a place called bmt which is uh today same building we were two kids when we came and after a handful of months the second kid left so i was essentially the one person here from the syrian community back at that time i was very fortunate back at that time i was very fortunate that we uh here we were here during the premiership of menachem begin who was a spectacular figure and my life was touched by many great claim rabbis educators by by david werner was my rebbe even though my gemara skills were very weak i thought he was a spectacular brother so i sat right by his side every day breaking my head literally breaking my

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