Can G-d Find You in a Desert? | Parshas Bamidbar

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

A rabbi was once seized with an irrational obsession with trying treif. God forbid. And uh he couldn't get it out of his mind. Finally, he decided, what's he going to do? He's going to go, book a ticket to a far-off, remote island. He's going to travel there where nobody knows who he is. And there, under the cloak of anonymity, for the first time in his life, he's going to try some pork. So, he flies there. He gets to the airport. From the airport, he takes the car to the resort. He comes to the resort. First thing he does, he goes to the restaurant in the lobby of the hotel. He sits down and he orders an entire roast pig. And he's sitting there and he's waiting for them to bring him his order. And as he's sitting there, all of a sudden, wouldn't you know it, one of his congregants, one of the balabattem from back home, sees him from across the lobby of the hotel. Just his luck, one of his guys is there at this little far-flung resort in the middle of nowhere on exactly that day, exactly at that time when he just ordered an entire roast pig. And the guy looks, HE SAYS, "RABBI! IMAGINE seeing you here. Small world when you're Jewish." He comes running over to him and he's schmoozing with him. And and the rabbi's so uh he's mortified. He he he he wishes he could dig a hole in the ground and jump in. And at that moment,

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1. 0:01A rabbi was once seized with an irrational obsession with trying treif. God forbid. And uh…
2. 1:32the waiter appears with a whole platter, with a whole roast pig. You know, the whole…
3. 3:34Shavuos is receiving the Torah, and we received the Torah in a wilderness. Okay. That's the…
4. 5:04And there she was surrounded by Jewish community and the rhythm and the pulse of Jewish…
5. 7:08And a few months previous to the story I'm about to tell you, Selma just happened…
6. 9:09So, Chaim Telsner, he's the shliach there on campus with uh at at the Illinois State…
7. 11:12geography, and her growing up in Philadelphia and the old Jewish neighborhood back in the day,…
8. 12:42erev Shabbos, I'm going to bring my children. I'm going to come back next Friday and…
9. 15:17And her last Shabbos, her last day in this world she was able to welcome that…
10. 16:51the students of Aaron, loving the creatures and drawing them close to Torah. Just as it…

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