Rabbi Gavriel Friedman - Food for the Soul: TV, I and E

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all right so the question is hi so is uh is television bad you're right it's not bad it is terrible however let's be realistic for a second so i saw i read a great i read a wild idea it was a whole whole series of things by lawrence kellman you notice i think by leigh kellerman does anyone know who that is robert kellerman yeah and in his that is robert kellerman yeah and in his book entitled to kindle a soul he has a number of chapters on the impact of television in society like what what what television has done and it's it's really really scary actually and i'm not even talking about from a religious perspective we did we mentioned yesterday we talked about idea of like the internet thing about how people don't have television but they have internet right which is basically all it's television plus and and the idea is i mean don't judge me that i don't have it you know but the idea is to understand what happens when a person what is the what happens when a person what is the impact television and and this stuff has on a on a person and on a society it's unbelievable i'm religious i don't know if you know that uh but you know i'm a religious jew and i grew up religious when i say religious i mean that can mean a lot of different things if you're from south africa it's a whole other world entirely right orthodox right as far as i i learned there you could be orthodox yet drive to shul and shabbos right that's such a thing right and that's not even a joke you know it's an orthodox jewish someone who goes to shul

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1. 0:12all right so the question is hi so is uh is television bad you're right it's…
2. 5:49if it would have went from 1 to 2 that would have been how much percent…
3. 11:24however what we did get rid of is thinking that those things are just the rules…
4. 17:33some of you others you go you take a look and describe it it's it's indescribable…
5. 23:48they come to like an essentials class they have this amazing teacher friedman whatever and then…
6. 29:24i believe i believe i believe i believe in the lord i don't even believe i…
7. 35:05should it be intellect drives the show with emotions coming along or should it be emotion…
8. 41:11go ahead and not see the truth he doesn't say exactly this but he basically says…
9. 46:47hopefully eventually over time will i leave judaism judaism the answer is that what you have…
10. 52:28we got to work it out let's be honest with ourselves let's give ourselves a chance…

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