STORY: Let G-d Run the Show

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

a rabbi a rabbi was asked to speak on the subject of how God runs the world and so he said paying for the speech a big speech a lot of people coming to hear how God runs the world and he flies from New York to California and he gets off the plane and he gets picked up by this fancy Uber and as he's in the Uber and he's going through his notes because he has to through his notes because he has to speak very soon he sees something very interesting that the Uber driver has two steering wheels in the front he's driving on one wheel it's moving back and forth and there's another will just on the other side doing nothing he's doing his notes and seeking over what to say and and he can't get his eyes off that second second steering wheel he says excuse me sir Mr driver

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1. 0:00a rabbi a rabbi was asked to speak on the subject of how God runs the…
2. 0:30through his notes because he has to speak very soon he sees something very interesting that…
3. 1:00he says excuse me sir Mr driver um do you mind perhaps explaining to me why…
4. 1:30dangerous I almost got into an accident the other day so I spoke to my therapist…
5. 2:04Rabbi says aha now I got my speech you see I have to speak on how…
6. 2:36you know what happens we mess things up God says do me a favor don't mix…
7. 3:06has to go that way so we want to grab onto the wheel God says do…

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