Failing to Plan is Planning to Fail (Part 4): Wills and Estates in Jewish Law

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

we need everybody's participation and we're asking modest whatever you can give whatever you can do to be part of our initiative our endeavor our effort our our uh inspiration our campaign we'd greatly appreciate it okay those who are watching we're across several platforms here um some will be able to see and others will simply listen but i'm happy to share the source sheets with anyone who would like them after the fact okay on zoom you see the source sheets somebody uh who's watching okay thank you rabbi brand as always okay so we are going through the considerations jewish legal considerations in wills and estates we've spoken about the importance of having a living will which is not our topic for today we've spoken about the importance of having a halachic will to ensure that no one is stealing that if somebody takes them who are otherwise the rightful heirs that you are not stealing from them and what's involved in having a halachic will before that we talked about aids ethical will and ensuring that a person is leaving instructions not only what to do with their money and their assets and their property and their real estate and their holdings but their values how to ensure that children grandchildren and generations to come will not only inherit material physical possessions but will also inherit a vision and a set of values and how important it is and how many of our great uh earlier mothers and fathers left eight zava left what we call an ethical will we talked about the propriety of leaving a significant portion of your estate too

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1. 1:02we need everybody's participation and we're asking modest whatever you can give whatever you can do…
2. 5:07getting a double portion the eldest son getting the double portion is not so simple or…
3. 9:12we are a nation we have our own distinct and unique laws they come from god…
4. 13:46and they follow whatever the civil law is in dictating and determining how to distribute the…
5. 17:46inherited 100 of what she has the fact that the secular civil law is going to…
6. 22:19that we have been collecting this series of which we have a long way to go…
7. 25:52i give him a quest only sets in after death in spite of the fact that…
8. 29:56and since according to the law of the land they can transfer after death ramosa says…
9. 34:03not be it will not be binding so this was a big finish of ramosa really…
10. 38:09you have to obey the commandments of the deceased holy monolith one hand is agent of…

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