Ohr Naava Speech- Women and the Lie of Second Place

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

Oruronava. I forgot why. I think he saw that I had a flyer about it. He's like, "What's that?" He's like, "I don't want to do this. I need to do this. It's long overdue." He's not a speaker, but I usually often go to places with him. We do a little question answer session. And then his wife, I learned in his house. His wife comes running in and she's like, "I got to get involved." So, it's a it's a to bring them over here one day. I want to I want to share with you a perspective which I used to think was a given, but which I used to think was a given, but I'm slowly realizing it's not a given. And I'm very passionate about this. It's a perspective that I think should be on every billboard. It should be on every archway before every girl school. It should be on every Stanley branded the following perspective. This really should be three separate speeches, but being that I'm only here like once every two months and I go to different continents often, so I'm going different continents often, so I'm going to sort of cram three mega ideas into one speech, so I apologize. Have you ever thought to yourself living as a Jewish girl in Lakewood, New Jersey, that girls don't matter in our religion? >> Have you ever thought to yourself between yourself that girls are second fiddle? that girls are second fiddle? Have you ever looked at Judaism as a religion where men serve God and women cook spaghetti? [laughter] >> You ever live in a yeshiva bakar dominated city with the largest in the world, the largest kyle in the world and think to yourself, am I relevant at all? This is an extremely dangerous

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1. 0:30Oruronava. I forgot why. I think he saw that I had a flyer about it. He's…
2. 6:13enough to think. Rarity. Number one, why why don't we just have happiness on the of…
3. 12:19effort. He says, "If you guys are really the chosen people, then why do so many…
4. 18:31road of life? Well, then yeah. Yeah, you bring that. 1492 August 2nd. All the Jews…
5. 24:50that. Respect your friend to warrant the death of 24,000 people that the BTS is destroyed.…
6. 30:57pride because that's the name of the game. Shalmanus. I want you to see Hashem, the…
7. 37:08and to light your soul and to ignite and to explode and to engulf. [laughter] I…
8. 43:17up so I didn't have you know the girls knowledge of Tanakh so I'm learning you…
9. 49:29miles in its radius. You have stars that are a thousand times the size of the…
10. 55:43into. It is unnegotiable. The survival of the entire Jewish people rests on women being proud.…

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