Remember To Appreciate the Stick and the Staff

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

[Music] oh boys this a very profound very strong display of care care let me explain something to you and i've given this analogy many times but it's something that we have to really sometimes it's got to be in your face all the time or else you forget it and you think to yourself oh he's so mean to me listen to this imagine bunch of kids you're playing basketball not here because our street is pretty much dead because nobody drives down our street too much right it's pretty quiet huh i mean the only way it would be dangerous is if like laying in the street as if everybody books began's driving up and down the block but besides that nobody else drives up and down the line that's it nobody else i mean you know half the reppies are out you know due to corona who knows what else so like rabbit bugs man he's gonna come besides that you usually could just like lay there a you usually could just like lay there a whole day in the street and i mean i'm not giving you an idea to do it it does look a little weird but all right so imagine main street and guys playing bad you know playing basketball on the ball goes over the fence and it goes into the street and guy goes yeah he doesn't know he runs right into the street to get the ball and as he runs into the street a car jams on his brakes and just misses hitting the guy

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1. 0:00[Music] oh boys this a very profound very strong display of care…
2. 1:34you usually could just like lay there a whole day in the street and i mean…
3. 3:06minutes later again same thing happens another guy stops does not roll down his window he…
4. 4:40that's right yeah you know why because the other two people they upset them you know…
5. 6:15shave it is my shabbat had a stick but it was not a shave it shifted…
6. 8:17but even the stick that we get patches with and people around us get patched they…
7. 9:53you know what claw you saw this week's parsha claw you swell we're by the yamself…
8. 11:23they're like taking their wet you know stones and they're sharpening their knives they're saying themselves…
9. 12:55but what are they we we're like there we were we're stuck on all sides and…
10. 14:30of course that's the answer you always say hashem right that means even when it's horrible…

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