Elul and the Broken Luchos: That’s One Small Step for Man, A Giant Leap for Mankind

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

I hope you're doing amazing. You know, in July of 1969, during the Apollo 11 mission, Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon. That's right. He set foot. He took steps on the moon. How they got up there, how people get up to the moon, it's beyond, it's beyond, first of all, the scope of this. Second of all, it's just incredible to think about, right? The fact that we have technology in place to go to the moon. It's absolutely mind-boggling. I want to focus on what Neil Armstrong said. That's one small step for man. A giant leap for mankind. One small step for man. It's incredible wisdom. Sometimes I think when people have these like moments like watershed incredible moments for example stepping onto the moon for the first time. Um that's an example of like just historically changing. You wonder if people like how much you prep beforehand. Obviously for the moon mission, it was an insane amount of prep obviously to go to the moon. But my thought is like how much time was used to prep for what you're going to say when you're going onto the moon? And I I think he did a decent job. I'm sure others out there will argue and say, "No, he could have said this or that or a million other things. He could say like, "Hey, mom." Or whatever he could have said. I think what he said is actually telling and it's true and it's fundamentally empowering. And that is one small step for man. The small step that he took, it does it creates a leap for mankind. You know, think about how much more discoveries were created, how

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