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Who's the Boss? - Part 2: The Challenge of Our Times - Rabbi David Orlofsky

1.1K views · Nov 7, 2016

Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky

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the the topic this evening that Yaniv gave me is who's the boss I said what do you want me to talk about he says talk about technology I said what he says you know how people are enforced are they're not their own boys that the technology has taken them over so I can't say for anybody else I never liked those kind of shear I never liked those kind of shear because you know it would be nice to a certain extent if we could turn back the clock I remember there was somebody who wrote years ago you know I don't know how many people I don't think anybody here is old enough to remember the era of radio there was only the radio no TV there good old days remember and the family would sit around and watch the radio and now from the exciting times of yesteryear a little Ranger and you know yet you'd listen to these adventures and excitements and it just he says he says if they had first invented the television and then invented the radio they would have said thank goodness somebody finally figured out a way to get rid of the picture yeah if you like to read then you know how much fun it is when you read and you let your imagination fill in the blanks right when you watch something your participation has decreased dramatically right if you want an example of this find here and there there were a few people a few kids who had read this book series called Harry Potter and let's put it this way she wrote the first book on napkins in a luncheonette because she lived in this unheated flat where she would just go and sit in the luncheonette cause it had heat and she wrote the first Harry Potter book the

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  2. 1:56participation has decreased dramatically right if you want an example of this find here and there…
  3. 3:26watch something you are completely limited it is completely passive in the old days when you…
  4. 5:01with a guy with any problem they have if a guy is you know involved girls…
  5. 6:34million people in the stores never throw the phone rings he takes it order and all…
  6. 8:07some aren't you gonna answer it I said I'm sitting here talking to an actual human…
  7. 9:38check it out on my Facebook page remember y'all asking but I've been I've been getting…
  8. 11:10what do you do says what do I do what do you mean now I finally…
  9. 12:42friends sitting around everyone's on their phone nobody's talking to anybody this is you know because…
  10. 14:13the same desires that you had as a younger person you know I can tell you…

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