Historic Treasures · Episode 70 · 1 Shvat 5781 · 11:32
How Kids Are Impacted By America’s Obsession with Work
Continuing from the previous episode, the Frierdiker Rebbe’s words on education in the Jewish home are discussed: the father in America, absorbed in his business and leaving for work while his children are still asleep, in contrast to the Jewish home in Europe. Also discussed are the importance of the Shabbos table in educating children, the parable of a candle illuminating the darkness, the parable of a person asleep in a burning building, and the call for good people not to remain silent.
The original video on COLlive · The series on Chabadpedia (Hebrew)
Automatic transcript of the original English recording.
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**[Note on source quality: The provided raw transcript is severely corrupted — it is a garbled mix of Dutch-sounding text fragments and scattered English words, apparently the result of a faulty automatic transcription/translation process. Large portions are not decipherable as coherent English speech. Below is a best-effort reconstruction preserving every recognizable English word/phrase in its original order, with [unclear] marking all portions that could not be confidently rendered into English. No content has been invented beyond what is legibly present in the source.]**
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