Who is Judge Alvin Hellerstein? | Behind the Bima #24

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The opening of this shiur, in Living with Emunah - Rabbi Efrem Goldberg’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

Good evening, everybody. I'm Rabbi Efrem Goldberg, joined with my dear colleagues and friends, Rabbi Philip Moskowitz and Rabbi Josh Brodi. It's Wednesday night, 9:00 p.m., and we are here to take you behind the Bima. How come every Wednesday night there's a pause and I'm unsure whether you know that that's the cue for your line? It basically That's every conversation we ever have. That's pretty much true. This is season 2, episode 1, which I think represents overall our 24th episode. And we At overall our 24th episode. And we At first we called it Coffee Talk. It wasn't called Behind the Bima when we first started. So, you know, Rabbi Brodi, you get a pass for the first few episodes, but I think for the last 15 or so, every week I I wait in that pause and I I don't know if it's clear to you that that's when you're supposed to come in. That's usually the time that I'm also trying to share it on Facebook, so it's always like a multitasking there. I got you. Well, did you figure it out? Did you get it done this time? Oh, no, I can't No, I can't find it. There we go. Now you can. You ready? Check now. Check now. There you go. We've got listeners that are already starting to text. First of

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1. 0:02Good evening, everybody. I'm Rabbi Efrem Goldberg, joined with my dear colleagues and friends, Rabbi Philip…
2. 6:38from the page. Yeah. Turn the page, New Year, fresh start, new beginning, blank slate. Unfortunately,…
3. 12:45Some of it overt, most of it implied. Um even joining a Jewish firm uh caused…
4. 18:51the army. And I paid a a visit to the judge I had been a clerk…
5. 25:00And and um um it weighs heavily. I know it weighs heavily on on most of…
6. 31:07the need for deterrence uh the punishment appropriate for the particular defendant. All of these considerations…
7. 36:47something that enriches someone's lives like that you can you must love. That's beautiful. We have…
8. 42:53Because all that's going to influence it shouldn't, but they're about to determine someone's fate. Lock…
9. 48:58grow up with that name? I mean what what trajectory of path does that set you…
10. 55:06to be members of the Boca Raton Synagogue community. And that is a fundamental difference. And…

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