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bonjour come on that's the extent of my French we're done I know you know more but you yeah tell me you listen to the full class in French so I guess you know a little more than that I listened to some of your classes in French and if I listen carefully I could make out more than half of it yeah because you know the subject also because well okay so maybe we should because well okay so maybe we should explain yeah um you know there's a story that shalom aleichem met La havdo Mark Twain came to America actually from the famous uh Yiddish writer so he came to America and he met Mark Twain and he said to Mark twainly he said you know they say about me that I'm the Jewish Mark Twain Jewish Mark Twain Mark Twain said to Shalom alaikum you know it's funny they say about me that I'm the American okay so those watching out in uh internet land or listening on in podcast land today our guest is rabbi yair al-baz from not just France not just Paris not just France not just Paris Paris how do they say yeah but the suburb of Paris called yeah they say it yeah yeah yeah yeah a very Jewish neighborhood on the outskirts of Paris and some would say that he's the French Chase towel but I would say I am the American that's what I would say you like that uh I would love to see the one saying that I'm the French style
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- 0:00bonjour come on that's the extent of my French we're done I know you know more…
- 6:17how do you say JFK in French okay so I say CDG so exactly I'm doing…
- 12:25relationship with Lubavitch goes back to the altareb the Napoleon Napoleon was invading Russia was going…
- 18:35France and the devil explains what France represents but for shorthand right now I'll just say…
- 24:49is that's how you're pronouncing it my French is terrible but is that the French national…
- 31:04is to bring the Mata so at the time of the Altera but the screen was…
- 37:12yeah so sometimes you go to a bookstore and just read the back of the book…
- 43:24you might not realize this but French doesn't just mean French means modernity it means Western…
- 49:37and this is such a French thing it's such a French thing the individual side of…
- 55:50of the organization okay and and when I opened like I I have to to tell…
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