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And now, the Rabbi Daniel Appen Show.

The more the world changes, the more we find comfort in the things that never change.

This is Rabbi Daniel Appen, on demand, on the Blaze Radio Network.

Greetings to you, happy warriors.

I am your rabbi, Rabbi Daniel Lapin, revealing, as always, how the world really works.

That's right. And I will take you for a short excursion into my childhood. So there I was,

and I was nine years old, ten years old. And I was being raised in Johannesburg, South Africa. And I've got to admit,

it was not an easy job for my parents. My parents were communal leaders. My father was a famous and much in demand rabbi. My mother was his

close collaborator and partner. And you know how they say the shoemaker's children go barefoot well it so happens i was turning into a bit

of a barefoot savage which is why my parents enrolled me in a school in london for a while

but that's another story the part of the story i want to share with you today is that I used to read, I used to

love an American magazine called The Scientific American. Now, I mean, I didn't know anything

about this at the time, but for your information,

the scientific American has been published continuously in the United States from before

the American Civil War in the 19th century.

And so I'll give you an example.

I'm going back 60 years to the issue of February 1962.

Okay?

And I'm just a little kid, but the magazine, it was really hard to get in South Africa in those days, but the public library in Johannesburg used to get it. They used to get it about a month late, right? Because most mail

came by ship, not by air in those days. That's true. Air transport of mail was very expensive. So I used to get the magazine about a

month or six weeks late. I mean, when I say get it, I never got it, but I could go and read it in the

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