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Daf Yomi Menachos Daf 32 by R' Eli Stefansky

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Rabbi Eli Stefansky

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Good morning. Welcome. Welcome to all the guests. We have a guest. I've been waiting for the entire week. He sends me an email a week ago and I put it in my charts and he doesn't show up and then I put the next I I can't I have to go like this today. How you doing, Rich? I'm going to read your email. I hope it doesn't embarrass you. Rich Marinelli, February 5th. I keep hearing about people having gumar tra. I'm definitely sympathetic to that. I've met many people over the years with bad yeshiva experiences. Some moved, some moved on and some continued to struggle. I wasn't so lucky. My parents forbade me to go to yeshiva and I was jealous of people I met who did. When I was 7 years old, I knew I wanted to be a religious Jew. Although I had no idea what that actually meant. I was fully show Chavez and kosher by age 15. It takes a personality for that. I entered yeshiva college JSS program at the age of 17. They took me on tour of the campus. They saw a bismeish for the first time. Hundreds of people in a gigantic room all very animated in groups of two or three. All I could hear was a very loud hum. It sounded like everyone was meditating together. I walked around a bit and it became clear that they were passionately trying to understand what Hashem wants from us and what our ancestors really already figured out. I wanted to be part of that magic. Unfortunately, although I had a great experience that year, I was on too low level to learn Gamarra. In 2021, I retired from computer program and was looking to find the kuta, but it wasn't working out. My bookshelves were bending from our school gumaras that I wasn't

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  1. 0:06Good morning. Welcome. Welcome to all the guests. We have a guest. I've been waiting for
  2. 5:19schedule. And I thought to myself, what is that our boys are seeking to broaden their
  3. 12:40the that's the sheet of the taz but according to sparum this would be possible right
  4. 18:32uh that it should be as so let's say this for me my brain understands this
  5. 24:31over here oh finally says >> it must let me prove to you that when said
  6. 30:25a little bit of they weren't really using it, but they they were if they do
  7. 35:52or the opposite. Yeah, it has to be susum. The satra is susum and according to
  8. 41:48let me just say real quickly I want to say some guest I see some new
  9. 47:40Okay. You know all these things. You're not allowed to write it. You have to look
  10. 53:43floor. So this amar was like oh I'm going to make room for the gle. He

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