A Red Light Can Change Your Life

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

my red light story it's like the most famous story that I that that's the craziest story but I want you to hear how you can hear a story and not hear a story so I'm all excited I tell this story because it changed my life when I heard it and it's it's really it's really has to do with this week's para so there was this girl who lived in Chicago and she wasn't from at all parents knew nothing really very little about Judaism and um her name was Miriam so they sent her to a day to a a Sunday like Tomo program but it was reformed Jews it was like a reformed Temple and her parents just wanted her to know a little bit about Judaism and Israel so they sent it to to this school now this school had a rule since they were reformed Jews they had mainly Orthodox teachers because those the only ones that knew how to teach Tyra but the rule was that you can now allow to take your kids any of your students home for shamas because we don't want anybody coming out here religious we want them to have Jewish identity and the main thing is Israel main thing is Israel zionists so this girl Miriam who came

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1. 0:00my red light story it's like the most famous story that I that that's the craziest…
2. 1:30Miriam sixth grader standing next to her and Miriam says with my candles and she says…
3. 3:04think she went to Xavier in Chicago a college whatever it is she goes to college…
4. 4:38look we'll show it to you you have to promise you won't look she I promise…
5. 6:12marry Vinnie she has nothing to do with Judaism her name is Mary God you got…
6. 7:47stops the windows open they see it's a right it's shabas they run out one of…
7. 9:21yeah but what Rabbi she said but we probably could get you a blessing from the…
8. 10:51hears and these kids are singing it then they sing alenu then they sing Adam and…
9. 12:22her and she turned to them one of them and said you know what you and…
10. 13:55gown now these two Seminary girls are like okay it's a thing I don't know you…

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