Where I Was on November 26 | Nachum Hurvitz

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

My name is Nachum Hurvitz, I live in Baltimore and for Parnassah I work for the federal government. I work for the State Department in Washington, DC. My position was always 100% remote, until President Trump came into office. And as you know, in the beginning of this year, he mandated all federal employees to return back to the office and be there in person. So this resulted in a two-hour commute each way. The challenging part of this commute is that the trains were packed, it's summertime. You have issues of Shomer Negia. There's issues of Shmiras Einayim. And because I was listening to Vayimaen on a regular basis, these issues really, really bothered me. I said: I need to come up with some way of trying to avoid it, because I’m going to have to commute every day and I have to deal with it. So I came up with some strategies. I'll wait for a less-crowded train to come by. I sit in the back of the train, both the commuter train and the subway, so that when I get off, I'm not pressed into a crowd of people trying to get upstairs. On Wednesdays, that's really when it's a crowded day, so I try to alter my commuting schedule

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1. 0:06My name is Nachum Hurvitz, I live in Baltimore and for Parnassah I work for the…
2. 0:36You have issues of Shomer Negia. There's issues of Shmiras Einayim. And because I was listening…
3. 1:07so I'm not commuting during the high crush season. And when I get off the train…
4. 1:38So I log on at 9 a.m. and there's an email from the assistant secretary that…
5. 2:11and a very detailed timeline of how and where this incident went down when these two…
6. 2:44during this incident. And I really credit Vayimaen. Because of the fact that I was Makpid…

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