HOLLYWOOD MOVIES: Are We Better Off With Or Without Them?

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

tonight's shir is called the problem with movies now i'm not going to be able to get through all of the problems of movies and i'll tell you what this tonight's is not about obviously one of the problems of movies akash baruch who gave us a queer called dimian means imagination demian means the power to conjure up things in our mind that maybe we can't see imagination the kayak of dimion was given to us one of the reasons certainly is that we can when we're governing we can picture of course he has no body has nothing the similarity of a body in any way but to a certain extent the the ability for us to think of who it is we're praying to is a product of demian of being able to picture something in our minds that we can't see it's a very special power and a necessary power for the purposes of te phila a movie takes the koi of dimion of imagination and it really hijacks it it hijacks it for a certain specific set of its own purposes very much when we we talk about uh the problem when we talk about the the culture that we live in has an agenda and the agenda is not our agenda it's an agenda of hola mazette and we'll come back to this later i know an agenda of hana of this world enjoying this world for its own sake of self-fulfillment above everything else the me generation and it hijacks this power of dimin of conceptualization of imagination and uses it for its own ends i'm not going to go into this now in detail that's certainly one of the problems of movies and what i want to really deal with is something maybe on a deeper level and um i'd like to start by giving a brief introduction

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