R' Lawrence Kelemen | The Rabbi Training Future Leaders of the Jewish People
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🗓️ 6 April 2024
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Rabbi Kelemen is the founder and current Rosh Kollel of the Center for Kehillah Development, a leadership development project devoted to the growth and wellbeing of Jewish communities worldwide.
He also created the International Organization of Mussar Vaadim, a network of self-development organizations focusing on character development in more than two dozen communities in Israel and North America.
R' Lawrence Kelemen was awarded his undergraduate degree at U.C.L.A. and did graduate studies at Harvard. He began his professional career as a downhill skiing instructor, served as the news director and anchorman for a California radio station, and then traveled to the Middle East to conduct 12 years of post graduate field research.
He is also the author of many journal articles and books, among them: Permission to Believe, Permission to Receive, Planting and Building, and To Kindle a Soul.
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| 0:00.0 | As a parent, I have to be so careful not to devalue or disregard certain cochless that my child has |
| 0:08.0 | because I don't see how that would bring prestige or Parnasso or something else to him or to the family. |
| 0:14.0 | Very often, a kid will then be lost because the one thing that he really, really loves and wants to do, |
| 0:20.0 | parents or his teachers will discourage him from pursuing. |
| 0:23.0 | I remember when I met Revolbe for the first time, |
| 0:26.0 | he said to me, |
| 0:28.0 | what did you study in university? |
| 0:29.0 | So I said, 17th century Christian literature. |
| 0:32.0 | And I expected a certain reaction. I once told that to me. said 17th century Christian literature. |
| 0:32.8 | And I expected a certain reaction. |
| 0:34.2 | I once told that to a meshquiach |
| 0:35.6 | when I was applying to the Isheva. |
| 0:37.4 | And the Mishquiach told me, |
| 0:38.9 | do you know how many years it's going to take |
| 0:40.7 | to get that tomb out of your system and Revolba's response was 17th century |
| 0:46.0 | Christian literature, tell me a hiddish. |
| 0:48.4 | The path that has brought you down is not pointless, it's not worthless. So don't walk away from those things. |
| 0:54.3 | Somehow that's going to help you perform your vote as a sham. |
| 0:58.6 | Hello everybody and welcome to another episode of the Meaningful People podcast. |
| 1:04.1 | This week we sat down with Rabbi Lawrence Kellerman. |
| 1:07.5 | Oh boy, what a story. |
| 1:08.8 | You're gonna love it. |
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