Teachers, Friends and Me: Class by Rabbi Ricky Cohen

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

all right good to see everybody thank you for joining we're gonna talk about the uh sixth mishna in the first park it talks about some very valuable things in terms of our lives our children's lives uh how we can gear ourselves how we can gear them and it's um it's based on a few um premises a few Core Concepts I want to touch on those first before we get into uh into the mishina itself the it's it starts with the following understanding the understanding is and I want to work this with you a little bit and I want to make sure everybody's comfortable with it hey honey all right my wife showed up she has to get here okay great um all right it starts with a a few Core Concepts the first one is that the human being all of us each of us occupy this remarkable place we occupy a remarkable place in life in the world and that place is in between the Practical world the physical world and the heavens right and we uniquely each of us all of us have this incredible situation where we sit in between the two so as opposed to uh every other element of creation the uh the animal world the Plant World all of those good things we have this remarkable thing where we're physical but we could reach hey Michelle we're physical but we could reach into the non-physical World okay when is the liberating so to speak with all that was created before and with the angels and they're back and forth on what would this man be would we create something called men and so on be consensus so to speak that something would be created but this

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1. 0:00all right good to see everybody thank you for joining we're gonna talk about the uh…
2. 5:33things how can something in a limited reality like this think of something that doesn't exist…
3. 11:31only a man can do that because man could leave reason and logic aside Embrace emotion…
4. 17:17these things anymore I become even killed I'm great but I made a mistake I'm not…
5. 23:04sorry doesn't have this sense of inherent okay cool raffle ask him how I could do…
6. 28:56such thing every teacher is a student every student is a teacher this is how we…
7. 34:56someone with whom you can share with whom you can build with whom you can grow…
8. 40:56isn't the world wonderful don't we don't never judge people no sorry no but we want…
9. 46:49reach out and I can bring challenging and serious people into my life only a confident…
10. 52:34them away I have to be very very careful here first of all I come first…

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