Rabbi Yom Tov Practical Spirituality: Be Fruitful and Multiply

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

so if you're a Jewish man that's three three days in a row did it work Jewish man being fruitful and multiplying is the best thing that could ever happen you why because suddenly you got this massively expensive responsibility like now you have all these people to pay for why is that good news who can tell me why that's good news then now you've got all these dependents that cost a fortune I mean think how much it costs to raise I mean think how much it costs to raise a child well think I might cost to raise five kids or six or seven or eight in my case why is that amazing for a man it means because now he has to go and take his bag of bones and produce something as best as he can and he goes to sleep every night knowing that he made a difference that he got to take that bag of bones which for men feels quite meaningless and women don't appreciate meaningless and women don't appreciate meaninglessness like men do women of other issues why they jump off bridges but men jump up bridges because of meaninglessness okay and they and it's very painful for men men women have a built-in task they have a built-in meaning inside they're a very system men don't have that but when the woman's built-in task which is to ultimately to cradles the civilization to cradled the entire society when

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1. 0:01so if you're a Jewish man that's three three days in a row did it work…
2. 3:08married and start having children you're gonna have a deeply meaningful life a tremendously meaningful life…
3. 6:14in the face of not just the millenials it flies in the face of 70 years…
4. 9:54somewhere to go you know the anyway but they're just as far as child rear child…
5. 12:59that was the first one the first track date that's okay no I said getting but…
6. 16:41are we gonna do with this guy cuz he can't marry anyone else meanwhile she thought…
7. 19:48to me I mean you were in Israel I wasn't you know and I just do…
8. 22:55and what happens is that fear that the man has is to double fold what is…
9. 26:31want to feel like this was the best idea they ever had and anyway but for…
10. 29:44yes so the truth is that when you look at the Talmud that discusses it being…

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