I find that I gravitate toward positive thinkers and achievers: Scott Adams, Tyson Fury, and -- yes! -- even Matt Nagy, who is currently reviled by Chicago Bears fans, but he's an incredibly positive person, and I haven't given up on him.
One such is Rabbi Eli Stefansky, the rabbi behind the wildly popular Daf Yomi lesson -- a daily 45-minute seminar about a page of Talmud. Over the course of seven years, we will, collectively, finish the entire Babylonian Talmud.
Here's an incredible interview with him -- a guy who made it big despite having very little formal education outside of the religious world, and who is bringing light into the world for thousands of people, against all odds and expectations.
Oh, and here's a link to the daily shiur (lesson): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKwQa5DB_VR98ac_r-Wyl-g
https://mishpacha.com/work-life-solutions-with-eli-stefansky/
This week's show will be slightly different from the norm: we'll focus on clips and topics, rather than guests -- and that, hopefully, will mean more input from the callers (unless you are all watching football on opening weekend).
Topics:
- The state of the economy
- The fight against crime
- The midterm election fight
- The struggle for peace between Russia and Ukraine
- The airstrike on the Venezuelan drug cartel
- The attempt to sink Kennedy
- The war in Gaza
- The case against Harvard
- The Trump presidency
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This week's Torah portion includes several laws about conduct in civic and personal life, the common theme of which is boundaries -- setting bounds to what one may do at home, at work, and even in the battlefield.
One noteworthy passage concerns Amalek, the evil nation that attacked the Children of Israel as they made their Exodus from slavery to freedom. Deuteronomy 25:17-19 commands Jews to obliterate Amalek's memory.
The South African government accused Israel of genocide on the basis of a story about Amalek in the Book of Samuel, in which King Saul was commanded to wipe out the entire evil Amalekite nation.
Because Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu quoted this week's portion -- "Remember what Amalek did to you" (25:17), the South African government claimed he was commanding soldiers to commit genocide.
It was an absurd and malevolent misreading of the Bible and of Jewish tradition. The commandment, as observed by Jews today, is to remember the evil of Amalek and fight ...
