Learning to Give

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

we are uh the whole world is looking for direction right now the world humanity is looking for guidance to navigate through the craziness of everything some people are looking [Music] to you know horoscope articles written by who knows who how do we build looking to cnn for guidance in life other people are looking in the newspapers and the people are looking maybe novels who knows maybe netflix who's going to guide us and we've had direction for thousands of years and it's called the torah it's always important just to frame that that there's nothing that's being invented here we were given a tire at mount sinai 3500 years ago the infinite god gave over a national revelation to the nation of israel and we accepted the torah and three million people accepted it and the authenticity of that acceptance is such that how do you start a lie with that many people we told the story yesterday that there was a rebbe he was a great sage and he was the head of this dynasty and he passed away and he had eight sons and he didn't reveal in his lifetime who the successor would be so one of the sons the night after the death of their father wakes up and says gather all of the students together i have something to announce and all the thousands and thousands of students gathered together and the ben said my father came to me how do you say it [Music] in [Music] came to me my father came to me in a dream my father said to me that i am going to be the successor so now all the thousands of hasidim what do you think they did

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2. 2:07students gathered together and the ben said my father came to me how do you say…
3. 4:42whose word stands in the end and can never be uprooted is moses because we all…
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5. 9:27at that time in that place that would exactly push the button that would get on…
6. 12:04so who would it make sense to get the instruction manual for living from i would…
7. 14:42excuse me called your business your relationships it uses the same sequence of energy so we…
8. 16:51look at this world this is a endless gift that's why so many of our mistresses…
9. 19:31so he travels across town gets to the kid's house and says no hi there you…
10. 22:09so he told the city said you should know that was you my fortune went to…

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