The Shoelace

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

There was a There was a Jewish couple. Not religious. And they had a kid. They had a kid, little Stevie. And when Steve became 6 years old, the mother decided she wanted her son in the Jewish school. Father wasn't so into it. The father wasn't into into Judaism at all. He wasn't interested in sending Steve to Jewish school, and especially with tuition payments and everything else. But, you know, the way it works is the mother they discussed it, which means that she said we're doing it. And and they sent little Stevie to a Jewish school. Okay, so he goes to school for a couple months. One day his father comes up to get him ready off go off to school. And he walks into the room, and the father wasn't happy about any of this. He walks into the room and he says Stevie is bending down and he's He's He puts on his right shoe, then his left shoe, then he ties his left shoe, and then he ties Steve, why did you just do that? That's weird. He goes, well, that's what they taught us in the Jewish school. Father goes ballistic. He said, I told you they're a bunch of superstitious nutcases over there. And he immediately yanks Stevie out of Stevie out of the school.

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1. 0:00There was a There was a Jewish couple. Not religious. And they had a kid. They…
2. 0:33little Stevie to a Jewish school. Okay, so he goes to school for a couple months.…
3. 1:05And he sends him off to public school, public high school, goes to college, and eventually…
4. 1:38snapped. I can't marry you. You what? He says, sorry, I can't. He hangs up the…
5. 2:08learning or pretending to learn. And he's he's sitting there he is sitting there you're looking…
6. 2:39like a chicken and uh I called your mother and said, 'What happened?' He said, 'I…
7. 3:12That's how they all stories end. Yeah, that little boy was me. No, it wasn't. And…

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