My father’s stories (and jokes) that made me who I am

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

So this is a monthly lecture series we have at the bottom of the five towns. Uh we had a different topic scheduled but being that Thursday is the Schlesh the 30 days memorial of the passing of my father I changed the topic and the topic is lessons that my father taught me. Understandably I've never given this lecture before. I'm not even sure really I made some notes about what I want to cover but I'm really not sure how it's going to come really not sure how it's going to come out. I'm not sure if I'll get emotional. I probably will get emotional actually to tell you the truth. Um but what is it? It's it's lessons that my father taught me. Meaning to say um it's not about his life. It's not about um it's it's not even about like specifically Torah that he taught me. It's more like stories and interactions and experiences and just how I was affected just how I was affected growing up with him as my father. So I know that he always watched everything that I uploaded. Everything I put online he watched it. Uh he was I don't know if it's respectful to say this this way but I think he would find this respectful. He was my biggest fan and he would he would definitely watch this video. So I'm going to All right. So I'm going to do this. Okay. So I don't really have a structure for this

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1. 0:00So this is a monthly lecture series we have at the bottom of the five towns.…
2. 5:40Past year I've been in intense therapy. Intense therapy for a year. I'm a changed man.…
3. 12:47anyone is being like very pedantic or getting bogged down in semantics or really literal or…
4. 18:56full docket of clients and he he rents an office at the at the office park…
5. 25:03"Do you know how to knife fight?" Guy looks at him and says, "You're lucky I…
6. 31:10I looked it up. What's later on? Like a year ago. So, like 40 years later,…
7. 36:44from the past 40 years. Literally, the last stuff I really know, I should say 35…
8. 42:57my father's approach to marriage counseling, the couple's counseling. And I realized the brilliance of it…
9. 49:06self-to-other, self-to-environment?" He said, "Yeah." I said, "Is that yours?" He said, "Yeah, that's mine." And…
10. 55:15Michael Jordan story is like this. And I was thinking about Did this happen before my…

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