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Parsha Perspectives - Rabbi Efrem Goldberg

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okay BTO I don't know why I always it's been a little while exactly okay we continue our weekly dose of coffee and jolt of amuna and we're going to pick up where we left off last week which was in the middle of this piece by in his Al again the great Mas of who really inspired a generation to work on these aspects personal character growth you know so so traditionally in yeshivas you know so so traditionally in yeshivas the emphasis was gamar study garar gar and the Assumption was that character development personal growth would result simply from engaging in the high level study and rant already and instilled that tradition which has now permeated and penetrated all of our yeshivas and seminaries that it's not enough shouldn't say it's not enough that we are not at the level that the pure study of Torah has the impact to transform impact on us that we need to engage character development directly as engage character development directly as a subject as a curriculum and to deal with it and that's really what rant the founder of the Muslim movement um really um really contributed and so is one of the links in the chain of that mus movement who has his own fascinating background we just concluded the people of the book last night but maybe for next year we should do an entire uh series on on muser put that there and revola would be a great uh R would be a great one so here R is talking about and just to summarize what we talked about

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  1. 0:01okay BTO I don't know why I always it's been a little while exactly okay we
  2. 3:07rev is bothered what do you mean they feared Hashem then they had Faith doesn't it
  3. 6:42page the ra counts three components ofun the first is which is to believe the concept
  4. 9:43examine the evidence and Judaism asserts with confidence that you will conclude he exists but doesn't
  5. 13:17there's no point to life you've lost your free will there's absolutely no point to living
  6. 16:53understand the world we think that we can predict and anticipate and manipulate and control the
  7. 19:57a painter to the painting and there's an author to the words and there's an architect
  8. 23:32things that you care about then you say do me a favor love me a little
  9. 26:39satisfying life is not by being a taker but by being a giver and that requires
  10. 30:16punitive it's restrictive I can't go here I can't go here I can't do this I

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