Shabbos Is Not a Break - It's the Center

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

Thank you so much for hosting us, Rabbi. It's uh I don't know if the public knows the extent of uh our relationship. You've been my rebi for many many years. Uh I want to extend of course Akarat to as I always do in private but now in public for uh really really giving your time and uh also your knowledge in terms of what I love to know what happened before I came along and I love to know the the wisdom along and I love to know the the wisdom of how we how we attribute today's climate of the the youth and their music and how you're an education also you have girls school the co I I learn in every day and I know how many hundreds of people are there in the k and you have so much experience and also teaching us and what I'm coming from a zamirus angle in this specific interview but I feel zir is also a way to discuss but I feel zir is also a way to discuss many different things that are happening in our generation terms of in terms of my own children how the memories I have of my parents at the Shabbat table of a happiness in Yiddish kite And a lot of a lot of the stuff that we go through on a day-to-day with and everything that we have dissipates when you're a happy person and your happiness and you have a joy of singing and you have a joy of in general. I feel it's a cure. I mean you'll tell me more. I feel it's just a cure. This

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1. 0:06Thank you so much for hosting us, Rabbi. It's uh I don't know if the public…
2. 3:41harmony and so on and right away ra you start to say music you know that…
3. 7:50visit people who were dying very sick people if he could take off from the l…
4. 11:25project >> thank you so much thank really thank you um as far as the since…
5. 15:33I'll take the interest. We went with a few people in the apartment. I told the…
6. 19:13the mdish. You had describing how Bishar and yet he had nu how could he have…
7. 23:17and faster songs and and he's smiling and somebody asks him a question what happened to…
8. 26:51we we listen to and what we sing and how we >> I had to share…
9. 31:00dance. And we start dancing. Now we're dancing and he's singing and they're loving and little…
10. 34:39what would your advice be for someone like that? >> Advice to the boy himself? >>…

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