Chats with Larry Episode 10

On today’s RABBI BRIAN’S CHATS WITH LARRY

Audio quality is not great this episode, Larry is on speaker and hard to hear at times.

Ballast – A sense of centeredness, how to get more ballast in our lives
Writing G-D removes the limits
The self-surpassing surpasser of all (Hawthorn’s Theorem)
Hebrews 11 “Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things unseen”
Accumulating the wisdom of the past
The word AVER and understanding words and their fullness
Brian tries to get Larry to curse
Not dumming down our language/vocabulary
Two different teaching styles

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