Chats with Larry Episode 10

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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.

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

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