Rabbi Chanan Gordon - Making this Year the Best Year of Your Life

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

hopefully you guys will forgive me for the post shabbos schvitz us south africans and californians are not uh i suppose it's not really humid for you guys um but it's very interesting firstly i want to give two very sincere thank yous and shout outs posted in before sonia to our host here from queen's jury center robert bell i want to appreciate the kind words and behind me the the kind words and behind me the logo for hazak organization that does terrific work all over all of america and we've certainly introduced them to la and you should continue to do your phenomenal work and ignite the souls of thousands of jews so it's very interesting when somebody introduces you which is true um as someone who's a former stand-up comic and here we are on you know before the ominou ryan says on you know before the ominou ryan says i ran in uh someone says rabbi gordon just make sure i know it's and it's l but you know don't make it too heavy so if people are used to my speaking style that's one thing you don't have to worry about i'm reminded of a very cute story a little seven-year-old kid moishi sitting in the front row of a big you know one of these big modern orthodox huge edifice modern orthodox huge edifice and on the wall there's a memorial to the veterans beautiful uh israeli flag beautiful american flag the name's all in hebrew so the rabbi notices these little kids looking up at this memorial looking whimsical looking a little bit confused so he wants to make sure there's kids at ease he goes up to the kid and said you know what's your name he said my name is moishi he said she looks like you're a little

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2. 3:35let's start off with kazakh how many people do i speak to that say rabbi for…
3. 7:12so i've been involved in the speaking circle for many many many years and if i…
4. 10:48children and just like the analogy of a gps we all know the very final destination…
5. 14:24jews out there that are partying right now they have no idea the average unfortunately the…
6. 18:29oak tree right now one thing we absolutely know you rabbi spoke about chuva akash park…
7. 22:06minutes from now 20 minutes later her daughter comes back into the kitchen and lo and…
8. 25:39apart we can become like the egg and become hard and stoic or we can take…
9. 29:13is that khalsh baarhu is firstly your father it's not some judge that's trying to give…
10. 32:49the hero of our story larry comes running up the stairs so to speak of their…

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