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Rabbi Lazer Brody @ Say it with Robin Stienberg with National Critics Choice

1.6K views · May 14, 2012

Rabbi Lazer Brody

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welcome to the National quig Choice online news ladies and gentlemen and say h and so here I have one of the world's uh renowned author uh from Israel Rabbi laser bro who I have here uh this most pleasurable to have um and he's visiting here in Asia for the very first time if I'm not mistaken but uh Rabbi laser please tell us more about U your life's work you know I mean it's amazing that you written many books uh after the war you written many books uh after the war if I not mistaken you and you what time her as well for Israel um tell us what what is it like okay first of all my life did not start on a spiritual it's very material I was born in America even though I'm only first generation American Born my father came from Canada and my father was in the Canadian Air Force in World War II and my mother was a holocaust Survivor she came from was a holocaust Survivor she came from Europe and I'm for a generation American but then discovering the background of the family and realizing even I wasn't yet into spirituality but I realize that there's something special about the Jewish people that despite all the wars and the tyrants and the dictators and the Hitlers from all of history that they're still here and that the great militant civilizations they're not here anymore uh so I wanted to be more of a

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  1. 0:01welcome to the National quig Choice online news ladies and gentlemen and say h and so
  2. 2:40realized that what I was doing in my life was only you know it was career
  3. 5:47to myself in fact Robin and thank you for the award and thank you readers but
  4. 8:24your father is a a rich businessman and someone wants to steal your inheritance but just
  5. 11:32have enough to eat for example in Africa and we have people that are running after
  6. 14:37would want that soul to act toward you very simple it's simple and it's beautiful now
  7. 17:14is the society going and and how can societies like Singapore encourage uh people to read
  8. 20:21and read a book and this book is like weightlifting for the muscle it's challenging the
  9. 22:5430 volumes that bring the table was piled up high and to write your Master's thesis
  10. 25:56and that is uh what is your lifetime you know U Vice for them uh for

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