The Turkey Prince

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

I I >> Good evening from the land of Israel with Hashem's loving grace. We're back with another evening of Rabbi Nakman's teachings. Tonight we have a two for one deal. We're going to be learning one of Rabbi Nakman's short tales, classic short tales and one of his discourses. So tonight we're going to be learning the Turkey prince and we're going to be learning the in the first section Torah 119 discourse number 119. So Rabbi Nakman's classical classic parable of the Turkey prince. It seems really absurd but it's actually a cogent reflection of the emoji generation. What would we call this? The smartphone generation. Rabbi Nak foresaw what would be this generation and he's going to tell us all about it. Okay. So with Hashem's loving grace once the king's son went completely mad and he thought he was a turkey think he acted like a turkey dressed up like a turkey gobbled like a turkey ate crumbs from the floor like a turkey and he could he felt compelled to sit under the table. He didn't want to sit at the the dinner table with the king. No, that's a not for him. He's not human. He's a turkey. So he acted like a turkey and he put a plate of grains and crumbs under the table and he sat under the table and he pulled the bits and bread like just like a turkey pecked at them and none of the

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1. 0:00I I >> Good evening from the land of Israel with Hashem's loving grace. We're back…
2. 3:14a turkey can't put a shirt on. So the wise man motioned that they should send…
3. 6:23what I call the emoji generation. For them, a smile is they don't write a word.…
4. 9:38what's this fire the fire is this the knowledge awareness of amuna everything taught it's all…
5. 12:51this is why it's so dangerous to drive because there's dangerous people on the road. And…
6. 16:01awareness. So if a person doesn't have spiritual awareness, a person won't receive compassion from above…
7. 19:17be close to Hashem. Everybody everybody wants to be close to Hashem but forgot for a…
8. 23:02smartphones and they they like zombies they can't smile they don't sh and I it's it's…
9. 26:07cell phones all week long. They don't turn off their televisions, their computers, whatever they have…
10. 29:16no compassion on himself or herself. So therefore she says sorry you don't care about yourself.…

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