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CHAZAQ's Torah Talks #201 Rabbi Ephraim Glatt, Esq. - Being a Jew in the Workplace

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Rabbi Shay Tahan

A talk on maintaining Jewish identity in the workplace, delivered by Rabbi Ephraim Glatt, Esq.

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I think that it's important to show that yamas are really defines I'm proud to wear yamaka and I'm proud to be a Jew and I'm proud the fact that when I go in front of a judge judge knows uh this guy is an Orthodox Jew and that's a it's a it's a ma it's a benefit they know that we're we're we're good people we're we're we're righteous we we take things seriously we're not going to curse we're going to act in a way that that that's covert of Torah and befitting someone who's involved in Torah and someone who believes Torah is the main thing and we're here for Parnasa to help encourage encourage it, you know, to break up encourage it, you know, to break up fights, not to encourage the fight. [Music] And welcome to Kazak's Torah Talk, Kazak's program with special guests. We have we have with us from over here in Queens, our dear friend Rabbi Fran Glad Barab. Welcome. Thank you so much. Thank you so much for joining us. We're going to be speaking about being a Jew in the workplace. And before we get to that workplace. And before we get to that exciting topic, if we get a little bit background about the rabbi. Sure. First of all, start for everything that Kazak does and you do in particular for the community for for Israel for continue to be. Amen. Um, a little bit of my background. So, Baram, I'm fortunate. I wear two hats. I am the associate rabbi for the past, you know, decade or so at Young Israel of Qart Hills in this wonderful neighborhood. I've been fortunate to work with Fabian Zatal and Rabbel

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  1. 0:00I think that it's important to show that yamas are really defines I'm proud to wear
  2. 2:04I'm very passionate about. Um that's one hat that I wear. Second hat I wear, which
  3. 4:06believe, but there has been a lot of discrimination against lawyers, experts in courtrooms wearing um
  4. 6:39yarmaka is prejudicing the jury or prejudicing the the the the judge. So then they could
  5. 8:42which I'm not which means midas means a a a a pious extra aspect. It's not
  6. 11:20yamaka, he says you could take it off. He says, and he brings a fascinating story.
  7. 13:20over there. But a common scenario that comes up is someone wondering whether to wear yamaka
  8. 15:21where Moshe writes to which the deina the bear Moshe not Mosha Feinstein but the the
  9. 17:59with higher pay. So that's that's this Mosha the Moshe about how important it is you
  10. 20:02and I'm proud to be a Jew and I'm proud the fact that when I go

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