Cancel Culture Pretending To Be Holy | STUMP THE RABBI (267)

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

If you saw someone that was well known for their wisdom, for their Torah, call it the biggest rabbi in the world. But you saw him, let's say, playing tennis, riding a horse, or doing something that regular people do. Tell me the truth. Would you lose respect for him? Would you lose respect for him? Would you still hold him in the same high level of regard? Or are you an honest person and you admit that it's more likely that you're not only not going to respect him the same as you did before, but most likely you'll cancel him from your entire understanding of what a rabbi is even supposed to be? The truth is, The truth is, that this is not necessarily a new thing. Years ago, there was a well known sefer that came out. The sefer made the world of Torah simply explode with light. And the Israel And the Israel that were there in Spain at the time, wanted to meet the author. Who is this going? We want to speak to him. We want to ask him questions. They found out where this Rabbi Zechariah Levi, also known as the Baal Hamaor. That was the name of the sefer, Hamaor. They wanted to go meet him and ask him questions. So, they went to the town of Girona and uh they got to a uh house which is similar to what we would call today a ranch. And uh they saw a young man in his teens, late teens, maybe 18 years old riding a horse.

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