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Rab, thank you very much for coming on to the Judaism Without Apologizing podcast. It's an honor to have you. >> It's my honor to be here. >> Can you give us the one minute version of the RV story a little? Yeah, I was born in the Bronx and I learned in Telu Yeshiva and Gika there and my Rashisha of Gifter sent me back to Miami to be the ro and the young Israel there. >> What exactly is the spiritual goal we're trying to achieve on Kaneka? >> I think that the message of Kaneka is that there doesn't have to be a conflict between the physical material parts of this world and the spiritual parts. Does the RV feel as though it became an explosion of gashmi? It's a celebration essentially of food and parties and presents where it really should be flocking and flooding the shores in but midrash >> but I think that even though it's been taken perhaps to a distorted uh extreme with presence and the Gashmias but there's a place for the Gshmas too. Jews nowadays sometimes can be celebrating Kaneka and at the same time have an utter fascination with Westernism and Americanism and politics and celebrities and news and sports. How are those two things mutually exclusive or are they as big of a contradiction as one can get? And they're pretty much a big contradiction and a lot of it by people who are not necessarily really shre to mitzvah is the influence of the

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1. 0:14Rab, thank you very much for coming on to the Judaism Without Apologizing podcast. It's an…
2. 0:45that there doesn't have to be a conflict between the physical material parts of this world…
3. 1:18Gashmias but there's a place for the Gshmas too. Jews nowadays sometimes can be celebrating Kaneka…
4. 1:48non-Jewish holidays that if the kashi montas would come back today he'd be very happy that…
5. 2:50their their values and standards are basically secular. Don't have 613 mitzvah. They have 613 problems.…
6. 3:21conducive for foreigners or English speakers to build their own schools? um what you just described…
7. 3:52emotionally connected and then just consuming a a an avalanche of political circus and rebundant screaming…
8. 4:53it's another place to go, like you said, instead of going to Disneyland to go to…
9. 5:26giving them the tour will let them know there's something special about these places kaduca wise…
10. 5:56bothering them so I told them look we'll make it easier for you I can learn…

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