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Rabbi Moshe Haber- Perashat Shofetim: The Virtue of Traditionalism and Upholding Truth 8.29.25 · Rabbi Moshe Haber - Daily Mussar/Weekly Perasha

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  The opening Fupa Sukim of Al Bashah and I think it's a
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  fundamental concept that helps a person realize how to grow or to
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  develop and what to avoid. So the opening of Sukim talking
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  about a judge, show of a team you have to appoint and every
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  gate, which means every city, you have to have judges and show
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  to him which are enforcers, policemen.
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  People are going to enforce the law, People are going to punish.
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  If we don't follow the law. Follow which laws?
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  The laws of Hashem. And they're going to be
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  obviously in Israel, Mishabat said.
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  They can. That'll lead to righteous
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  judgment. And the Basu says the following
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  law tasis. Don't tilt the judgment one way,
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  don't smile at 1 plaintiff and not the other.
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  The other side don't take bribery because bribery is so
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  powerful that it blinds the eyes of the wizard wise they salivate
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  the game and removes the words of those are righteous, they
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  become not true. Then it's just said, they said,
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  they said though you should really chase honesty and
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  judgement. Lamont is here in order to live
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  in Russia to audits. That's the opening.
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  So the basuk is telling you regarding judges you have to
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  have in Israel and every city, you have to have judges who give
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  the law and force the law. You have to chase on his
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  judgement and do not allow because if you do, it's going to
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  go off track. And the basuk says at the end
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  chase tadolf where defile means or death someone is chasing you
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  should run after God on his judgement.
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  You mean to love and be into and be focused on his judgement.
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  Double word civic in order that you live on this land.
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  OK so I have a little point of view here is the TADA does not
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  tell us anything in the specific team positive that the judge has
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  to do. It just tells us remove the
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  negative law. Tada, say this, don't smile at
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  one guy and then go with the other one.
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  Don't accept bribery. Don't do this.
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  Don't do that. It doesn't, however, say oh
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  Lotus, it it doesn't say is it say they say it's a dope for me
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  to chase honesty, but it doesn't say the judge should be this guy
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  or that person should be a wealthy person.
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  He shouldn't. You know, we know that there are
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  certain requirements correct, but all those are based on the
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  fact we want to avoid these Lotus even the fact that she was
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  we want to avoid him being it tells the one way you take a
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  side all that it's so why doesn't that tell us anything in
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  order to lead to a good judge what kind of positive person it
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  needs to be and more #2 the end of the pasuk says under this
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  Lord chap that says it said they said to do the mind in order to
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  live on this land in order to inherit the land that God gave
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  you. What does it mean not to live?
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  You should have rights. These judges.
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  I got it. Why are we telling me not to
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  live? What is living coming?
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  This is a new wording. We don't have this kind of
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  wording. OK, so this I think is a
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  fundamental concept that applies to judges or you'll see it
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  applies to, we'll give you 2 other areas, judges, politics,
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  each one of us. So here's the concept.
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  The concept is, is that a chairman's telling us I gave you
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  A to her, a Tora is just Tora is true.
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  It's honest, it's just, it's right.
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  No need for any changes. You know what the job of a
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  judges there was a job of someone who's giving over the
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  Torah or giving over the laws of Torah.
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  All he has to do is keep it the same way, keep it intact.
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  Don't play around, don't add any color to the ready existing
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  Torah. Just allow it to be.
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  In fact, we have judges and we have Sotoudini, which are
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  enforcers, policemen, you know, the judge of police centers to
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  allow that law to remain intact. The job of law enforcement is
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  literally law enforcement, letting the law be, not adding
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  to the law or piling on to the law, changing the law, leaving
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  it the way it is. Torah is given as a perfect
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  gift. Torah law is a perfect law, and
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  the judge of judges is to bring out that law to the people
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  whenever, case by case, each situation.
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  But all they're doing is is they're speaking in the truth of
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  the law itself. And then the shotarim are
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  enforcers to allow the law to be In fact, I'm Dash writes, shove
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  the team to show it to him. It says, Amen, show off the team
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  ain't show it to him. Amen.
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  Show it to him ain't show it to him.
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  If you don't have judges, you don't have enforcers.
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  If you don't have law enforcement, you won't have
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  judgement. I'll tell you.
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  I'll give you an example today, just to give you a random
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  example today. For some odd reason, the FBI
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  likes doing this a lot. What do they do?
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  They think a person who I think is prone to make recently
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  illegal or he's a type and they set him up, right?
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  They set him up and then they throw the book in.
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  If you think about that, it's a bit ridiculous.
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  Entrapment, Entrapment. Looking at my person who may
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  never have done anything wrong in his life.
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  That's the event. That is the event.
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  And what is that really? What that is that people might
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  say is necessary. Whatever it really is, that's
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  not so Fatima is your dream because you made-up a situation
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  and then now you're enforcing as entrapment.
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  Torah has to be judgement, which is truth, and then law
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  enforcement. And the goal of the dog is
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  saying is if you don't have the law, no purpose of enforcement.
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  If you don't have enforcement, good luck allowing the law to
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  because the law won't stay intact without having
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  enforcement. All right, this is the opening
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  to Al Prasha. And all that Torah has to tell
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  you is just don't deviate from honesty.
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  Don't go off track. Don't accept the bribe cause the
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  bribe will change what you see. Don't they smile at one side,
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  not smile on the other side. Because what's going to happen
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  is you're going to give one person a Zook and he's going to
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  talk more and be you have more confidence.
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  And I was going to be a little bit more embarrassed, a little
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  bit shyer. And therefore they're more
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  broken down. It's all a matter of just
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  leaving it the way it is. Let things be the way they are.
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  Let the Torah exist. It's a Torah times.
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  And the same is true with all these different areas of a
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  judge. It's all about allowing the
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  Torah to speak itself. And the purpose of law
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  enforcement is just allowing the Torah to remain in Torah.
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  And that's what we're telling you about a judge.
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  And then we say le man terhia. Le man terhia means, because if
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  you allow any deviations, if you allow some side needs to come in
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  and the truth won't be the truth, which is if you allow
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  accepting of rights, a bribe. So what's going to happen?
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  I'm asked to give a judgement. I have a relationship with the
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  same person. I make it the wrong judgement.
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  It's not the truth. Is no longer truth what already
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  existed as a fact. I'm going to deviate from the
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  fact. The world will never exist if
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  falsehood exists. The world will never last to.
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  She wanted to sell on anything that wants to be in the world.
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  In order to remain attacked, you need genuine.
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  In order to have genuine you need to have truth.
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  Any deviation from the truth. Any deviation from total law in
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  Israel or cause a lack of existence, that's Lamontaria.
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  That's what I'm telling you. Lamontaria means just allow what
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  is to remain and don't let any deviation from the path.
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  That's the law of judges. OK, Now when I say politics, I
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  mean the follow everything looking at me, everything you
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  see everything you see in politics today, right?
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  The word again. What is the word again?
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  Make this a great again. Make that great again.
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  The whole idea is bring anything back to the original.
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  If something is built on the solid foundation, someone
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  believes in America, for example, and they believe that
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  the foundation in America is built on good values, all you
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  want for the rest of history is to bring that back.
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  All you want is to not allow people to make changes.
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  The whole core of all politics in this country, the core of
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  liberals up against the current version of conservatives.
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  It's all about basically this change, change, change or keep
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  it the same. That's all it is.
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  Change means I do not believe at least change from the original.
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  I don't believe in the original. The whole idea of connecting, if
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  you go deeper, the whole idea of connecting and America was built
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  on stolen ground or built on slavery mindset.
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  All these things are meant to get to the core of a person and
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  say what exists is no good and we need to change that.
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  And what that does as it breaks down a foundation of already
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  existence. If you want to create a new one,
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  fine. If you believe as they do, yeah,
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  this current 1 is not good. I got it.
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  So you're creating a whole new world, but that's going to tear
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  apart. That's the goal is to tear about
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  everything that people hold sacred because you're trying to
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  take away where it exists. That's how you find a consistent
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  theme among the rules or seems to be they don't seem to
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  connect. How does DI connect with the
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  certain elements of other parts of the country?
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  How does it count all these different things?
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  How do they all connect? They all connect with one idea.
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  Tear down your ready existing foundation 'cause they don't
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  believe in the And the whole idea of the modern version of
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  conservatism is to bring all that back.
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  The whole idea of traditionalism is to bring all that back, to
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  keep things. It was built on values of faith.
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  Let's keep faith in the school system.
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  It's built on built on values of freedom.
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  Let's keep freedom all over the place.
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  On the other hand, all the ideas of the other side are trying to
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  break it down. That's the politics and
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  nutshell, and that's how it is. That's why every single thing
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  that you see gets you nervous because I just trying to find
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  another way to break where it exists.
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  Another regulation, another DEI, another change from the normal,
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  another color hair, another this, none that.
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  All that is meant to be take away where it exists history
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  revise history. That's the whole idea because
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  they don't like the original existence.
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  Now that's true when it comes to Tuda and those are sweet, but
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  also important. It's true when it comes to
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  America, but it's also true when it comes to you and I.
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  This is the most important show of the demon.
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  Show, the name to Dan Lahaba Hoshe Arreja, famous Rida.
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  It means you need to have judges and enforces and all your gates.
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  What are your gates? Every human being has ears,
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  eyes, a mouth. And these are gates of our
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  bodies that have entrances and exits and these things, these
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  areas can take in and they cannot take in.
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  And if they take in, here's what happens if I listen to bad
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  stuff, if I see something inappropriate, if I eat
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  something on kosher, all these different anxious ways, they all
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  are able to impact the person in a negative way.
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  If he hears something wrong, he changes his soul.
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  If he sees something wrong, it changes his soul.
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  If he eats something wrong, come to my nerve fish come to my
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  live, it changes his soul. Even smelling can pull a person
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  in the room. So all these gates are areas
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  where a person who's great, who's originally great, every
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  one of us, every human being was born Yashar.
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  Every person has to believe ethnicity is evolution.
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  Ethnicity is changing. The perfect person.
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  We were all born perfect. That's yet to believe.
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  And our job is to keep that up and don't allow change.
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  We're anti change in that sense. Traditional means I want to be
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  the traditional existence of myself.
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  And the more I am myself, the more I exist the way I should
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  have existed, the less I hear this and hear that here's
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  something inappropriate, I'll pull this way that way, and
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  following other things, see things I want to be like them.
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  The less I have the outside world around me coming into me,
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  the more I am myself and the more I am myself just removing
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  shokha, so to speak, of myself. Removing being interested in the
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  wrong things. Just remaining myself that I can
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  build upon myself and I become a stronger, healthier, better
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  person. Peel away the things that take
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  you down. That's the whole show of the
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  team that shows the name. It's true in Judges.
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  It's true in America and it's true with you and I the more
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  traditional we ought to ourselves and the apostle who
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  says that God made every man. Yes, sure man was created
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  upright. Wouldn't you create an upright
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  that means you created in a perfect way.
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  It's the opposite of the mindset of evolution.
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  It's not just we don't hold the evolution, but we believe I
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  shouldn't create the world. We believe that the closest we
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  are to our source, we were to our source was in the beginning.
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  And if you believe that your entire goal is to keep what's
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  sacred sacred, to keep yourself the same.
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  Now what happens is how do a person grow?
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  Or if you connect yourself with your source, you remain more the
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  same. You connect yourself with truth,
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  you remain more the same and you build upon that and build upon
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  that. Everything we're trying to do,
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  whether you go down to the depth, is trying to keep
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  ourselves the same, but having more truth in our life, more
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  source in our life, more original in life and more
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  tradition in our life. And therefore we build and build
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  and build. Whereas if you evolve, I heard
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  an idea, an inappropriate idea from someone, so now my mind is
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  90% me, 10% inappropriate. I saw something, now my eyes are
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  90% me, 10% inappropriate. I changing my existence.
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  People who are crazy and wacky, what they are are a lack of
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  their own personal existence. They no longer exist.
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  The whole goal of a Jew is to be yourself at your core and to put
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  short term, which means to put enforcers on yourself, to keep
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  out different things who are trying to take you down.
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  Everything in the world is trying to pull out us.
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  That's all existence, advertising all sorts of
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  temptation. Everything that exists is just
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  trying to pull. Even our own character that's
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  the wrong one, is trying to pull us down.
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  So you have an existence that's perfect and you have a lure to
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  put you down. A Jew wants to grow put and put
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  yourself the law, which is understand and recognize how
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  great you are at your core and then allow yourself to have
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  enforcers, which means law enforcement for myself is I
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  don't go over there, I don't do that.
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  I don't see that. I don't listen to someone.
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  So I don't get I know people who they're fine people.
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  They come into the wrong settings and you can see the
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  change and you know, you have a conversation and you know at 10
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  minutes ago they just had the conversation with someone else
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  and that's why they're off all the time.
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  There's growth like around you that's they had no control of
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  like right. So that that's we have to.
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  And the kuru nakur. Kuru Nakur.
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  No, it's, it's like either good or not good, but there's and
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  that was there's always growth. So you have to.
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  Yeah, the world around this keeps getting bigger and bigger
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  and bigger and even the community.
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  Yeah, absolutely, same thing. And the community has.
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  I'll give you a side example to the same point I heard at this
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  point in the radio yesterday, and it's been one of my biggest
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  opinions in the last five years. You know, you hear about well in
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  a different challenging things every day nowadays, right?
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  You're on multiple times a day and you say to yourself, wow, it
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  seems like it's so much more now than it used to be.
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  It seems like it's so it's partially true, but it's also
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  partially the fact that you have much more media than used.
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  And we think it's OK. I'll tell you the truth, it's
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  very not OK. I'll give you a classic example.
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  I saw my kids playing. I played cops and robbers like
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  they used to. I know originally cops and
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  robbers, it meant that the kid, the robber is a thief.
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  The robber was not a mass murderer, right?
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  Today, the robber in college robbers is a mass murderer.
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  And it's it's because the kids have seen craziness and we try
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  as much as we can to block it out.
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  And it used to be, you know, when I grew up, my father was a
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  firm believer in allowing the home to be open and allowing us
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  to be, you know, to have not not be so filtered and so sheltered.
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  He didn't believe in shelter. And I'm not saying that the
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  world is in my father's opinion has changed, but now I'm saying
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  that you have to shelter your children to a degree.
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  You can try all you want. Maybe it's difficult to do so,
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  but you have to shelter our, we have to shelter our chosen our
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  grandchildren to some degree because if we're prone to the
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  whole world, it's hard to breathe.
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  I need to be sheltered. I need to be sheltered.
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  After a while, I said, I can't handle the news anymore.
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  Now this morning I, I drove in, I said, forgot about the news.
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  I mean, all the bad guys are on the radio anyway during the,
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  the, it's called weekend. But aside from that, I can't do
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  it anymore. It's too much.
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  You can't breathe. It's so tense, it's so hectic.
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  Just play some music. That's how I told myself so you
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  know, that's all we have sports name guy.
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  That's why we didn't have sports.
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  Probably is either. We didn't have sports during
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  2020. We know the world went to
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  burning right? Because we're out sports.
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  You have distractions. Sports, huh, Huh.
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  Even sports dip deny we can't belittle exactly, but it
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  stopped. They stopped that when they lost
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  losing money. But the idea is a person has to
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  recognize the fact clean out our world.
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  Everything that we say, clean out the world, go back to
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  traditionalism, be conservative, all these ideas are all the same
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  concept. Go back to your core.
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  Your core is good. Our core Jews core, that's
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  clean, that's filtered from the world, it's beautiful and will
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  develop, He said one second Jew has to grow.
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  You know how Jew grows? By doing more of the same, more
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  connected to the source, more connected to the truth, more of
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  himself, less of the outside world.
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  We were born great, and our entire goal is to get back to
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  that existence. And that's true with this
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  country. That's much more true with our
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  Torah, and it's true with ourselves.
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  And in fact, we always talk about Adam Manishan called the
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  market. Adam Manishan called the market
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  Adam before the sin. How long did Adam Manishan exist
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  before the sin? A couple hours, an hour,
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  nothing. So what is the whole existence
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  of man meant to get back to that point?
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  Why would God create man? It's such a perfect level if
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  it's only going to exist for an hour, all right, And then the
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  world's going to change entirely and entire history is going to
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  be focused on getting back to Adamaji Jean Cote de Marquette.
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  Ghanaian is a domination for the sin.
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  Why would all God make man who's going to sin be born in Ghanaian
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  where there's one hour there and the rest of history will be
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  trying to get back to that point because the person has to
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  understand and his core is great.
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  His original source is great. All he is is a very clean person
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  under a lot of mud. And the more you clean yourself,
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  the more you separate yourself from the outside world.
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  In that sense, found out unhealthy outside world, the
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  more you create yourself as a strong traditional core
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  existence. Keep things out of your home,
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  keep craziest out of your ears. Keep other people's opinions out
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  of your mind. Keep yourself yourself,
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  recognize the fact that you and I and our core are unbelievable
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  great and have the greatest power out there.
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  We just need to Kee away from the outside world around us.
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  We'll start with this.