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Rabbi Moshe Haber Path of the Just: Purity of Intent and the Clarity of Right Action 12.23.25 · Rabbi Moshe Haber - Daily Mussar/Weekly Perasha

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  Oh, as a little page 400 over here.
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  All right, 390-9400 again, close.
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  So, so the idea that he's about to hit, and I know it's very far
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  into the book, the middle of chapter 19, I think this is
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  actually one of the most fundamental concepts and that is
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  how strong and how genuine is your intent and whatever you do,
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  how real is your motive? Then I'll read you from 399 in
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  the bottom and we'll get the 400.
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  Up until this point, we've explained actions, the need to
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  do an action in the fullest way with the full love, with the
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  full defence of our Shambo concepts.
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  And I'll explain things that are dependent on intention.
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  We've explained the concept of doing something with ripe or
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  wrong intent. Oh, no, no, I'm 400.
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  Vaade Shami Shamit, Gavin Bawatov.
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  If someone has the proper intention while he's serving our
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  shamblets, I had enough. Sure, let's go to levels level.
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  A very normal level is someone who does something and he does
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  it because he says it's going to make me a better person if I do
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  much what it's going to make me a better person.
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  If I have the right intention, it's going to purify myself or
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  great idea. Le man tis que la sheret, it's
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  panna vahali shahim vahasadim. If I do the right thing in life,
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  I will become one of the best. I want to be the greatest.
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  Some people say to themselves I want to be the best in every
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  area. If I'm going to do to ram, it's
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  what I want to do a right. I want to become a fine person.
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  It's going to purify me. It's going to make me a better
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  person. I'm going to get analyst reward
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  and got anything so far, this guy's motives are great.
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  He is thinking about becoming a better person.
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  Want to sit among the greatest, Sitting among the greatest.
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  I don't want to be in just, you know, the backseat.
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  I want to be in the Hall of Fame of great people.
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  I want to feel good about the fact that I did my role in life,
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  I became a good person and I want to feel content about the
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  fact that I'm going to have an analyst.
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  O la maba, all this is great now, he says.
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  I am not about to tell you there's anything wrong with
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  this. Absolutely not.
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  There's no way in the world I can define this person who's
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  trying to get something in return.
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  But no one's going to say there's something in return is a
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  bad thing or this motive is a wrong mindset.
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  But there's a butt here. There is, however there is,
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  however is. And even though this person is
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  on an unbelievable level and he's thinking about becoming a
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  bad person for the right reasons, there's still is a
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  outside motivating fact, which means he's still not.
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  He's there, he's very far, he's great, but he's still not fully
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  doing something just to do it. Which means I'm not going to say
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  this person is AB. He's a, he's a plus, a guy who
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  wants to become a good person and do something with Felish
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  Mafa Shamsik for the right reason.
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  Nobody yet to get along my BA, great person.
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  But there's still a degree which is you actually want to be a
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  level, I want to say further up a little different.
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  You want to do some because it's the right thing to do and that's
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  it. Not for the reward, not even for
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  the reward. Of course, reward is great and
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  we should have the reward driving us and we should think
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  about kind of editing a llama BA and try to build for ourselves
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  an endless world of reward. You should, but at the same
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  time, a part of you, you should think, I wouldn't say it's a
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  higher level, but more of a clear level or is I'm doing
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  something because it's the right thing to do.
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  That's why I'm doing it. And the reason that's important
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  because once you're motive driven, once you're driven by
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  reasons, even if the reason is great, there's always other
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  things that mix into your reasons.
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  So if I want to focus on reward, I might also focus on wanting
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  better in this world. And then it may end up filtering
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  into my mind. I want some honor in this world.
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  I want some credit in this world.
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  I want to be like an impressive person down here.
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  And if all you know, you blur the lines and you're here and
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  doing things for ulterior motives, not the goal.
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  The goal is to do it by Hashem sake, which means I'm doing it
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  for the right reason because it's the right thing to do.
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  And that will drive you to always do the right thing at all
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  times and to never care what others have to say at all.
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  That's a very important point. And you want to believe that at
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  a certain point in time you wanted to become independent,
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  independent minded. And the way to become fully on
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  your own and the way of thinking is when you say, I'm doing this
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  because it's the right thing to do.
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  I'm not thinking about reward. I'm not thinking about credit.
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  I'm not thinking about impressing other people.
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  I'm not thinking I would have to say.
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  And if you also don't want to think about other, you know,
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  random payments that I get because of doing good things, I
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  want to do it because it's the right thing.
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  That's the high level. All right, I'll hand on how the
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  Malcolm S Gom can shoot the IO Tetrava.
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  It's not perfect when the guy's thinking about reward Kyaji
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  Adamit Cavano tavaout. That's more because once the
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  person, so long as the person is thinking about getting something
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  back, even that something is great sof sof of that's more he
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  is still compromised by the fact that he has an ulterior motive.
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  Let me explain what I mean. When you have an ulterior
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  motive, you have a drive a Dr. pulls you.
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  What if you have a drive to do something a kind of like has a
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  conflict, it conflicts something else.
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  I'll give you an example. You have a drive to do something
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  and it conflicts for your family.
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  It's not good for your family. You want to do it.
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  So if you're doing it for credit, you're going to be
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  highly motivated to do it anyhow.
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  Now you're going to have to decide which one's better.
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  Am I making mistake? If you're doing it for your
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  world law about, you're still going to be highly motivated to
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  do it. Let's just say you're doing a
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  mitzvah that brings the world along about, but somehow it's
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  not good for your family. That's just it.
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  You're still going to have a conflict if you're doing it
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  because it's the right thing to do.
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  You will not have a conflict because if you're doing it for
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  the right thing, it'll be clear. We figure it out yet.
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  They work on it, but one of them will be the right thing and the
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  other one goes by the wayside. It's not possible to have a
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  conflict if you're doing it as the right thing to do.
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  The only way you have a conflict if there's a motive involved,
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  ulterior motive, other motive, whatever it may be, so long as
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  there's another, another poll. It's possible to have at the
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  same time a good thing on one side and a Altera motive on the
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  other, and you're not sure what to do.
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  But if you're solely doing it because it's the right thing,
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  guaranteed there's clarity there and there's only one right path.
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  It might take work to figure out what that is.
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  You may have in front of you 2 paths, but at the core you'll
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  realize there really is only one right path.
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  That's because if I'm doing it for the right reason, totally,
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  I'll choose one. That is.
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  That's how it works. That's just telling you agha
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  kavanaha amitit reality is the clear intention Hamid tsuyaba
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  khazidim something that's found by the great people.
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  I should tell who who worked very hard this salut and put a
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  lot of everlasting guys. It's very hard to weed away the
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  altaria motives and the right thinking is hoshi Adam oved rach
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  Le Mans. I said Kivodor shala adun, but
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  who Igdal via the bed. I have one goal mind to build up
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  Hashem to do something for the right reason, to do something
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  that's pure and that's it. Nothing else.
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  OK, now I will be honest tell you this word is like is
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  impossible to reach natural. It shouldn't be hard to attain
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  that you're doing something without any military motives.
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  All of us need reasons to get us up in the morning.
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  We need things to pull us League of Charity.
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  We need things to pull us to learn.
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  It's all very normal. It's pretty much very difficult
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  to own, borderline impossible to attain this level.
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  But it's important to know that this level exists as mindset is
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  clear. And that is I'm doing something
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  because it's the right thing to do where any alternate motive,
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  including without even thinking about La Mabaa, I'm simply doing
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  because it's the right thing. It's difficult to take works to,
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  it takes work to attain, but a person has to realize the more
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  he does this, the less he has conflict in his decision making.
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  Because if it's totally Vashem, you will have a sense of
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  clarity. You will know when to push, when
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  not to push, when to give charity, maybe when not to give
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  charity, when to go learn, when our time not even to go learn.
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  You'll know when you should get involved in giving someone else
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  advice. Even if it's going to take time
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  for me and family, you'll have that clarity because it'll be 1
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  stream and now one stream is I am doing the right thing and
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  they'll never be a conflict. The only reason we only have
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  conflicts is we have other motives evolved and now we're
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  trying to debate. I want to be there with my
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  family, but I also want to do what I feel good about this area
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  of Hehsad or that area of mitzvot and it's conflict there
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  based on Ontario motive. Clear, clear motive. 0
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  confidence that he's telling you.
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  Let's hear a few alliance and then we'll stop.
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  All right, Vizier Ahar, once he strengthened me love Hashem and
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  he developed a certain desire to elevate Hashem's name.
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  And it bothers you when God is not in a good place.
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  Hence your only drive is the built up Hashem.
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  She'll have hot meat, sidor ye que vodori.
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  But Ahmed Kadel with a veg she called Shaben Adam.
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  You come, OK, All you want is that everybody's on board with
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  building up Hashem and it bothers you and other people are
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  not following Hashem's way. This is all playing into a
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  mindset and a motive, which is basically really motive free.
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  Just I want to do the right thing.
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  When you do that, you will continue to think properly and
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  you will not bump into the conflict of ulterior motives
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  because you can't 2 lots more. You'll never allow yourself to
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  go down in this area, but she'll get go bonus O beho shoot the
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  Teva. OK, this is very funny.
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  Like we said, it's an extremely high level to attain this level,
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  maybe the highest, but at the same time, just know that it's
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  out there. There's a world out there could
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  becoming a good guy for 0 motives at all, simply because
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  it's the right thing to do. And you'll find if you would try
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  for this at all, you'll find you don't have conflict.
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  You won't have a debate. Should I do this?
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  Should I do that? You'll say I'm doing the right
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  thing. So what is the right thing right
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  now? And you'll get a clarity and
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  you'll do the right thing. That's what he's telling you.
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  Exactly. That's what he's telling you.
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  All right.