Yom Kippur: The Historic Opportunity For Teshuvah

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

and England are today the winners it's an upside down world the winners are the losers and the losers are the winners the Soviet Union as a country today does not exist they are literally wiped off the face of the map England which was so much a part of the Allied efforts today has been relegated to somewhat of a second raid power and yet Germany and Japan countries that were literally wiped off the face of the map today are the countries that map today are the countries that dominate their region and to a large extent dominate the world economy number three and four in the world economy respectively how does one explain this irony of History this historian wanted to suggest that the countries that lost the war had to face the new realities of a new world they had no choice but to change they had to change their economies they had to change their countries they had to to change their countries they had to change their thinking they had no alternative other than to change England on the other hand rested on its laurels with a snug sense of complacency we won we must be great there's nothing to do there's nothing to change and the world has passed them by to quote Rabbi Wine's words the last 50 years has rewarded countries that have learned to change modify rethink and punish to change modify rethink and punish those that for change new thinking ideas and are permeated by the narcotic of complacency and this phraseology the narcotic of complacency is a very challenging idea an idea that should really get us thinking because what is true on a national level this narcotic of complacency that I'm good I'm fine things are going well I

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1. 0:31and England are today the winners it's an upside down world the winners are the losers…
2. 6:12she was watching the same television show that she watched in 1940. and on the computer…
3. 11:56but it doesn't end because we're not 1940 anymore we're past that and the second continue…
4. 18:09says have you ever wondered why when your children walk home from school they're not accosted…
5. 23:54you're now to surround the city on four sides only on three sides you have to…
6. 30:10prayers is on the confession the Viva right you know how to make the confession make…
7. 35:48spirituality life is too busy right now life is too busy things are too hectic hectic…
8. 41:32chuva have taken advantage of this prophecy let's not get left in the dust I want…
9. 47:53press and she writes about her father her father was the last Rabbi of the city…
10. 53:36my dear beloved daughter the war is almost over a few days later was Victory Day…

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