The Big LA Event: Here's What You Live For

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

[Music] tonight's presentation it's in memory of moshe maluk a title that i really like i'm happy that ramosha you thought of this title because i'm going to speak to this theme very very much about values about goals let's go back to yaakov avinu after three decades of not seeing his father he now has to prepare for a confrontation with his brother asaf and he decides he's going to send the ahead messengers and these messengers are going to be laden with all types of gifts because you want to swage this man's anger after all isav is extraordinarily upset about the fact that he lost the bejorah and he wants revenge yaakov avinu can actually predict what the questions are going to be listen to the questions that he tells the angels he's going to ask you because these are the questions we're going to ask ourselves tonight jacob tells them the following my brother's going to ask you a question to who do you belong that's going to be question number one how do we understand that question in our time you know what that means to us what are your roots what's your connection to your heritage as jews that's the question we have to ask ourselves do you identify with judaism that's question number one question number two

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1. 0:16[Music] tonight's presentation it's in memory of moshe maluk a title that i really like i'm…
2. 6:07on the first floor the sign on the door reads floor number one men who have…
3. 12:27what we call pre-judgment syndrome i will not go out with anyone in this social class…
4. 18:39values and we as jews so they get to his house in the hamptons he's overlooking…
5. 25:08the kabel and he tells a story a woman a man came up to me he…
6. 31:33what if he can't where's the flexibility i didn't want to really dig it to you…
7. 38:22so what are you going to do about it another guy walks up to him says…
8. 44:46great well here's the issue my daughter is so down and depressed that there's not going…
9. 51:05he was never home because he's put in 12 14 hour days and the only way…
10. 57:33work you've got to learn how to thread your questions very organically into the discussion make…

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