A lecture on the hidden threat of subtle assimilation.
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shalom alaikum everyone and welcome to tuesday's timely tour talks tonight we have with us a very very special guest a very dear friend of kazakh a man that does so much for clients over the jewish people robbie bension classical rabbi welcome how you doing i'm doing well barak hashem thank you so much how are you hashem always a pleasure always an honor to have every classical part of the program part of khazak spreading so much story but before we start with tonight's topic which is the hidden thread subtle the rabonim and how to do outreach so a campus could have four or five thousand students and they hire a rabbi but the rabbi can get very hard questions to to answer and he may not be equipped because he may have grown up in uh yeshiva environment where those questions were more of a given so to speak out the answers to those questions perhaps help him uh meet students so that's my my day job as i go from campus to campus a few times a year i go to eretz israel with a can find jobs in uh anything that a jewish network should have we tried to incorporate and the good news for the listening audience after two and two and a half years uh this week we should be coming out with a brand new version work that worked on it for about two and a half years and you're gonna be able to reach any jew anywhere and give them amazing rabbit klotzko spreading the light i know countless amounts of people that have been inspired through the rabbi's works uh our j-wave teens vision has
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- 0:00shalom alaikum everyone and welcome to tuesday's timely tour talks tonight we have with us a…
- 4:20covertly or subtle assimilation happens when we remain jews on the outside will wear akipa you…
- 7:32they're feeding that to you and you're listening and you don't even know so that's the…
- 10:40wasn't it wasn't the greeks the greeks okay the greeks and eventually took the sides of…
- 13:59canada so history is replete with examples of people who wanted to be like the non-jews…
- 17:13you are alienating yourself and you're cutting off avenues whereby they'll say okay if i'm going…
- 20:22commercial commodity that's not torah what makes that torah like hey you know you're a star…
- 23:36and what we do is we hear we do it ourselves we speak about these things…
- 26:54a nice purse it said on kate spade kate spade so me was that kate spade…
- 30:02offer of value to the way that we live our lives we need them we're going…
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