Chief Rabbi Dr. Warren Goldstein: The Shabbos Project Revolution
Inspiration for the Nation with Yaakov Langer
Living Lchaim
4.9 • 992 Ratings
🗓️ 1 July 2023
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Chief Rabbi Dr. Warren Goldstein is the Chief Rabbi of The Union of Orthodox Synagogues of South Africa since 2005.
He has a brilliant story where he accidentally started the global movement known as The Shabbat Project.
He also created the Sinai Indaba conference and very powerful changes in the SA government.
He is the author of an incredible new book, Shabbat - A Day to Create Yourself. The book has become a global initiative involving live learning groups, with hundreds of these groups on the go in the US and Israel.
To set up your own learning group email [email protected]. You’ll receive - free of charge - as many copies of the book as you need for your group.
You can buy his book here: https://bit.ly/3r1HEoq
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| 0:00.0 | So I was like, you know, stumbling along and explaining very awkward, this is, but this is the Bible, |
| 0:06.5 | and you know, when the Bible says you must keep the Sabbath, this is our tradition in terms of Judaism and |
| 0:10.9 | the Talmud, we don't use our phones. |
| 0:13.6 | And that means from sunset today, my phone is going to be off for 25 hours. |
| 0:16.9 | And if you call me on behalf of the president and my phone is off, |
| 0:20.0 | I will only be able to pick up the message on Saturday night and I'll get back to you then, but please |
| 0:24.3 | don't take it as an offense to the president. |
| 0:27.4 | And I was like waiting to see what she was going to say. |
| 0:30.4 | And is she going to say, this is ridiculous, are you insulting us? |
| 0:33.6 | She said to me words which I'll never forget. |
| 0:35.8 | Welcome back to another episode of Inspiration for the nation. |
| 0:38.3 | And this week we tap into eternity. |
| 0:41.6 | How do you get eternity? We talk about the beauty of Shabbis. If you love |
| 0:45.3 | Shabbis, this episode is for you. There are so many beautiful moments and if you're |
| 0:48.9 | not connecting into Shabbis, the way that you could you're gonna learn about the beauty and this is an incredible episode with |
| 0:55.3 | Rabbi Dr. Rabbi Doctor I never know which one goes first and he's Rabbi Dr. Warren Goldstein |
| 1:00.5 | the chief rabbi of South Africa. |
| 1:03.0 | We talked to him about South Africa, |
| 1:05.0 | the incredible movements he's made, |
| 1:06.5 | and yeah, he's the person who started the Shabbas Project, |
| 1:08.9 | one of the most impactful, motivational, |
| 1:12.3 | moving movements, |
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