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As the screenwriter who adapted Isaac Bashevis Singer's "Enemies, A Love Story" for the film with Angelica Huston and Ron Silver, I was pleased to see your short video with Mr. Singer as your representative of the best Jewish literature. He is arguably the greatest Jewish writer of the 20th Century and worthy of comparison to the great Russian authors like Tolstoy, Turgenev and so forth. I met him briefly on two occasions. He read and was pleased with the screenplay, which I considered an extraordinary honor. (He hated Streisand's version of Yentyl.). Unfortunately he died before the finished film was completed. Roger Simon

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Thank you! This is a wonderful Chanukah gift!!

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Thank you so much for this comprehensive conglomerate of daas Yisroel.

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This is an excellent survey of Jewish literacy

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And, above all, Jewish humour.

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Everybody MUST learn from the Jews! If they don't, humanity will self-destruct!

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Bullseye. To the heart of the matter. Congratulations. I've read each synopsis of the 25+Bonus. I've taken a peek at most of the videos. I will watch each one all the way. I went back to the top for a 2nd glance at the whole. But this time I opened Video #1. Cleverly that is possibly the briefest of the 26 videos? When it opened the videos on the proverbial right column of your tube and my tube and our tube yields a variety of connected videos.

This one I opened straight away. Dare I say, 'it is a must watch'. It is 3:55 minutes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTRTd86_9W0

You added a Bonus or '26th' topic. If there were ever a revised edition, or not, I 'feel' that the singular 'simplest' thread that we need as a true, and total directly connected Jewish People (in all our diversity i.e. normal, olde school diversity of generous acceptance without an insistence on agreement) is reliant on a temporal level upon - Time.

Jewish Time. My naïve fantasy is that if we would be so kind as to sync up into Jewish Time then mountains will move for us. Hills are already moving from 'theirs' back to Ours. "The times they are a' changing". Yes Mr Zimmerman was a form of a prophet.

Time. We stray, walkabout, stragglers such as myself need haltered in to Jewish Time... to the annual unfolding and illumination of the Torah via its 'weekly' Parashot (portions/sections) studied in daily Aliyah bytes. Plus your 25 and Bonus.

M.M. Schneerson clearly recommended though he didn't sing "Let's start at the very beginning which is a very good place to start"; but, he did encourage the Chabad weekly newsletter that includes in the first column a "Living With the Times" essay. It seems that the founder of the Lubavitch movement taught we must all "live with the times".

As mentioned a moment ago, my unlearned sense is that we, all Jewish persons and groups and organizations really need to sync up on a daily basis with a minimal study of that week and daily Aliyah portion of Torah. Read and studied at least in a minimal way. I like that bit because when it comes to all the STUFF we are meant to do.... I am a minimalist.

And.... lest we forget.... your presentation of 25+Bonus IS outstanding. Thank you.

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