Rabbi Yom Tov Practical Spirituality: Individuality in Orthodoxy

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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.

chi'lan welcome to Asia tour practical spirituality overlooking the Temple Mount Jerusalem today we're talking about different types of Jews and as I look around this classroom I realize there's many different types of Jews though in my neighborhood it would be hard to know there's different types of Jews because everyone pretty much dresses the same and are expected to act more or less the same as well and and that comes from various things but one of those things that comes from with certain personality types generally rise certain personality types generally rise into more controlling leadership positions administrative administrative type physicians and those types of those types of leaders are really good at amputating the uniqueness of individuals and just as a joke you know when you see when you see in the very observant community you know everyone like kind of looks the same especially the men you know the men really look the same and so the joke is that when we wear our Tallis you know it has the black stripes the you know it has the black stripes the reason it has black stripes is it's a barcode so God knows who's praying oh you know in a minute I'm choco Nouveau unfortunately this has become something that plagues the observant community in a big way because because it's just frankly hurtful I mean it's this whole idolatry over the word normal like you got to be normal cuz it or else you're not gonna be able to get married you know you gotta be normal it

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