Conversation - A Debate: Should a Rabbi Tell Others for Whom to Vote?

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

We're live. Okay. Erev tov and good evening. Thank you all for joining us for tonight's debate L'shem Shamayim. My name is Rabbi Binyamin Blau as you see with the tag Rabbi Binny Blau and I have the honor and privilege of serving as the moderator to tonight's debate. Our evening this evening has Our evening has really two objectives. On the one hand, our objective is a debate L'shem Shamayim. Uh the RCA has tried to show that individuals can engage in a passionate discussion about issues in a way that really is reflective of their beliefs, their ideals, at the same time do so and really respect one another. I want to thank at the outset Rabbi Chaim Strauchler who really created this program and of course from Daniel Korobkin, the president of the RCA, who spearheaded and championed it. And so far we've done two of these such events and they've been extremely successful. So that's one objective, to be a model for what civil discourse can be like in our society, something that's sorely missing in the modern age. And in that sense we're very fortunate that I have two chaverim, two personal friends of mine, Rabbi Ephraim Goldberg and Rabbi Barry Kornblau, both who I've worked together professionally and personally for many, many years, who I have the greatest admiration for and more deeply I know they have an admiration for each other. And I know they're going to be able to engage in our discussion in a manner that will be L'kovod U'l'Tiferes, to really show what what a debate L'shem Shamayim should be like. So I said that's the primary objective on the one hand. But there's a very worthwhile topic on the other hand. And that's the topic of uh should a rabbi tell Jews whom they

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1. 0:06We're live. Okay. Erev tov and good evening. Thank you all for joining us for tonight's…
2. 4:50most aligned with our Torah values. And to suggest that you could possibly endorse or vote…
3. 9:29and will tell us how important it is to speak out and why these times are…
4. 14:47simply simply cannot be absolute. There's a time to remain silent and time to speak. As…
5. 19:40and political pro Ezra Friedlander wrote that some pro-Trump behavior in the Orthodox community this past…
6. 24:28public support for, wait for it, the Democratic nominee for president of the United States. I…
7. 29:13bit unbalanced in our timing. I do want to stress an important point here. Rabbi Goldberg…
8. 33:57that position contributes to the problem. It's not the solution. When I wrote my article explaining…
9. 38:45consulted um and that was widely understood to be the case with the National Council of…
10. 43:31I think that's the first step um in decoupling to say that there are actually another…

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