Amalek and the Geek

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

With the Shem's loving grace, welcome to Amona Beams with your host Laser Brody. Today's podcast is entitled "Amalek and the Geek". Well, Albert is a very techy 17-year-old geek who makes fun of his mother. "Mom, I can't believe you're having trouble saving contacts in your new phone. Well, his mother gets more than upset by her son's smug attitude and answers. She says, "Hey know-it-all, I taught you how to say please and thank you, and I taught you how to eat with a fork. You see, Albert thinks that his mother is primitive. She's not so adept with the latest devices, and it's not her fault. By the time she learns the device, it becomes obsolete and something new replaces it. Even though he's a nerd, Albert is one of the most sought-after kids in high school because he's the super geek go-to guy for anyone who has a problem with an iPhone, an iPad, or a tablet. Anyone with a question about the latest programs or about navigating the cybersphere turns to Albert. Well, if mom is old-fashioned, dad's even worse. He works all day long managing a warehouse, then he goes to lessons every night to learn a book that some men put together 1,700 years ago about what happens if a cow falls into a pit. Well, mom and dad are tolerable somehow. Albert, of course, takes his bedroom, his clothes, and mom's wonderful meals for granted. He has no patience at all for grandma and grandpa, either. They're always telling these boring stories about their parents who came to America escaping the Holocaust. He hates to leave his beloved 42-in plasma screen

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1. 0:00With the Shem's loving grace, welcome to Amona Beams with your host Laser Brody. Today's podcast…
2. 0:30see, Albert thinks that his mother is primitive. She's not so adept with the latest devices,…
3. 1:00He works all day long managing a warehouse, then he goes to lessons every night to…
4. 1:31even for half hour when mom and dad force him to come to the dinner table…
5. 2:01And she says that you're not supposed to speak bad about anybody in the Lashon Hara.…
6. 2:36scroll to him is not an ancient book, but a trip up and down the screen.…
7. 3:08Eiger and the Chasam Sofer, had brains that could store all those books, and holy books…
8. 3:40innocent-looking Amalek. But whereas tradition connects us in an unbreakable generation-to-generation chain back to Moses and…
9. 4:10fight Amalek and his screens. Mom and Dad, even though they're really nice people, they set…
10. 4:42Gemara can't defeat a screen, emunah can. Emunah is what enables a man to pick up…

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