Gift-Wrapped Garbage | Rabbi Naftali Reich

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I grew up in Manchester, England, and as a young boy in the 1970s, I remember there was a garbage strike, or as they would call it over there, a rubbish strike. The workers refused to go back unless they were paid much higher wages. And uh there were a couple of enterprising younger light that really couldn't handle the smell and the disgusting sight of bins overflowing with garbage. And they took their garbage and packed it tightly into egg garbage and packed it tightly into egg boxes. And they wrapped the egg boxes in gold foil. They stuck on some beautiful ribbons and bows and they packed it into the back of a van. [music] and they drove down to Moss side, which was a slum area in the south of Manchester, [music] and they left the doors of the van open. Sure enough, a short while later, they came back and the van was emptied of its precious cargo and they drove off before the lucky or unlucky people that had

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1. 0:05I grew up in Manchester, England, and as a young boy in the 1970s, I remember…
2. 0:35garbage and packed it tightly into egg boxes. And they wrapped the egg boxes in gold…
3. 1:06the lucky or unlucky people that had picked up [music] this fantastic merchandise that had fallen…
4. 1:37reflected [music] in our nama. Those around us that edify, broadcast and flaunt the body, the…
5. 2:09But the world around us that edifies and worships the body unfortunately is being sold a…
6. 2:42Torah, where the nama is paramount and the body is exactly what it's supposed [music] to…

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