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Rabbi Moshe Haber Iggeret Ramban: Lower Yourself: God Elevates the Humble 11.30.25 · Rabbi Moshe Haber - Daily Mussar/Weekly Perasha

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  OK, so in this letter and you get an Amban, he's line by line
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  emphasizing this concept in a beautiful way, but how his son
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  should act in his language or his mindset.
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  And one of the things he said was that a person should be
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  humble. We've been emphasizing that for
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  the last month or so. Persian be helpful, he says,
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  because there are angles that one can feel arrogant.
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  A person can feel arrogant from their wealth, from their
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  intelligence or from the power and honor that they're already
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  given by others. And he says all three, a person
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  has to realize that he's all God-given talents and God-given
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  gifts, whether it be wealth, intelligence, even.
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  He gave us an example where a person, they go on the bottom
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  where a rabbi went, was recommended to take a job and
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  time of the Gemara. And he went to give that opening
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  speech and no words came out of his mouth.
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  And he was stunned. He's a genius or robber.
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  No words came out of his mouth. And he realized that even the
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  car of knowledge and the ability to speak is all a gift from God.
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  So that takes away with that mindset, the arrogance.
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  But the way to double down on this point and then we'll get to
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  now are two points for today #1 the line that he says nimzah
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  call shavalev na Macomb. Person needs to know everything
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  is even equal levelled in the eyes of Hashem.
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  What does that mean? Everything's levelled.
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  Kiba poor mushpeel game Uber sonor magbiashifalim.
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  Hashem gets angry. He can take down those who are
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  gay, those who are arrogant, those who feel like they're
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  great. And in His will he can lift the
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  person up who's small. Hashem has the capability and
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  the power to play around with this things.
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  The things that make people most arrogant, God could play around
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  with them in his second. The personalized unbelievable
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  talent, the shanker move, it will make it make the talent
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  useful, useless. The person has a lot of wealth.
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  We all know what could happen there.
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  The person has a lot of health, We know that too.
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  So I shouldn't compete. People up and down.
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  I think all the time about some people that have talents and
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  then a new technological idea comes along and boom, that
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  talent is useless. It's completely gone.
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  All right. I think I saw a clip of they
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  have an AI Barber. OK, AI Barber somewhere in the
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  side of the world. You stick your head in and then
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  you come out. You you put exactly the type of
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  haircut you want and you come out and it's a perfect haircut.
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  Is there a real is, is the video itself, doctor?
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  Maybe it is. I don't know.
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  But I think when you see that is, I'm sure if I'm a Barber and
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  I see that, I start to sweat because in my mind I say, hey,
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  this job could become obsolete one day or so.
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  And that takes, you know, the guy's going to talent And he
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  went to school, we went to school, didn't go to school, was
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  trained by his father. He's been working on it for
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  years. He's a good at it.
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  He has a certain relationship with his customers.
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  He does all that and then the second, sadly.
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  So I just come along and gone. I'm sure there's many jobs in
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  the offices that have been taking over with this mindset
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  too. So that's can only be seen as a
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  person, I think down that road in life because it's very
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  discouraging and it's kind of upsetting, but it's a mindset to
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  know there's nothing, no talent, no gift, nothing.
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  And a person can say, I haven't made it in the shade.
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  Oh, I was trained, I went to this schooling, I'm good to go.
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  I have a certain amount of money, I'm set, I have this
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  gift, I have this talent. They all can be obsolete.
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  They all can be changed. A person that can be a great
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  singer with a great voice and people don't like that kind of
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  music anymore. It happens all the time.
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  A person can be an unbelievable musician, play a certain
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  instrument and people are not into that anymore.
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  A person could have a great gift, be good at a certain sport
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  and people don't watch that sport and therefore they don't
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  get the same money. Anything you have a person
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  should realize can be taken down to size.
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  And when it does this, it doesn't discourage your
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  confidence, it doesn't remove your feeling or feeling good
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  about yourself. It just removes the mindset that
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  I have on top of the world. That mindset should be taken
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  down and the way they bring him a dash, it says classic Madash.
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  This is a woman was a woman asked the rabbit after your God
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  created the world, what does he do all day?
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  What does he do all day? Well, we know Hashem recreates
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  the world every day, but OK, the rabbit wanted to give the woman
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  an answer and he told the woman, What my God does is that he
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  takes people up and down the ladder every day, which means he
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  rises the simple people, raises them up and he lowers the
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  arrogant people. God is taking you up and down a
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  lot every day, every single day. Some people get a big name.
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  Some people their name gets ruined so they make a lot of
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  money. Some do the opposite.
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  Every day is bringing up and down every single day.
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  That's just happening. And what's, what's the purpose
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  of knowing that? The purpose of realizing that
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  is, is that all the sources of what makes us feel great can go
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  up and down. Here we have a term.
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  We say say the gamache of the word.
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  Namon of money is equal to the gamache of the word or any of
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  poverty, which means Hashem. Both those things are equal in
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  the eyes of God. God can be the one.
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  And then they go even further on this concept.
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  They give you the following. What are the words we use for
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  property? Nik Hassim?
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  Nik hassim is the word we use for property in the Gemara.
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  Nik hassim also means Nikhsim vanish property.
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  If a person doesn't realize how Hashem, Hashem, whoever he wants
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  with it, that's property. What's the word we use for
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  money? Zuzim, and they came out of the
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  word. Zoos is the word for the coin.
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  So exactly, zazim means it can move.
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  Money moves, you know, we spend it very fast.
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  It moves in our way, but it also moves.
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  It's hilarious, by the way, because we have all these
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  different matters of spending money.
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  We don't even feel it in a sense, but it also moves.
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  I can make it move away or bring it to a person who plays around
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  with it. That's Zazim and mamon is the
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  word that they use for money as well on the game, right, Ma
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  morn. That's a classic term and it's a
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  way of saying ma Monet. What do you count ma?
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  What are you counting? What are you counting this for?
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  It's not going to go with you and the rare money in a certain
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  sense, the all imagination of something useful.
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  What are you telling me with this and all these terms?
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  Are you telling you is a person that could have it?
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  It can come, it can go. The purpose of that example is,
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  and one recognizes that it's all in the hands of Hashem on this
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  point specifically on this point specifically, a person needs to
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  know as well. And when you hear these
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  concepts, it comes to wealth. The idea is if this is true that
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  it can vanish. If it's true that it it has no
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  use long term, all that. What do you take away?
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  The second point. The second point you take away
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  is it's smart to invest and invest doesn't mean invest in
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  property or invest in a company and invest means make your money
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  eternal. Invest means use your necasim
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  and make sure they go somewhere they use for a good thing.
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  A person has property and he uses it to welcome and guests.
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  So he's taking his property instead of allowing it to
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  vanish, he's making it eternal. A person has money and he uses
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  it for charity, he uses it for donations, he uses to build
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  institutions. We think OK, he's spending your
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  money this way, overspending it that way.
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  According to his translation, it's a matter of in God's hands
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  and capable of vanishing cause God thinks he's up and down or
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  investing in a way that it can never not possibly vanish.
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  There is no way even for isem to take away such investments.
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  So instead of being something that can vanish, it's something
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  that's eternal beyond eternal. Imagine a person takes care of a
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  poor family. Right now the children have food
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  to eat. Now they have self-confidence.
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  Now they have health, Now they have a future.
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  Imagine a person takes care of its own institution.
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  Now the kids are learning. Now the shul is learning how the
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  people are growing and all that. And the opposite of vanishing is
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  eternity. That's the mindset.
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  So when I tell you these ideas that God takes things up and
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  down, and I tell you this concept that these things can go
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  either way, they're also telling you that do not allow that to
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  happen and making sure you invest.
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  That's really the mindset. That's the ultimate eternal
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  mindset. And again, that also comes and
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  leads to that same humility, the arrogance of a person who's well
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  off was very successful as a great talent as they believe
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  it's me, it's mine, it's for me. The humility of a person who has
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  that but is generous as a translating saying it's not
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  mine, it's not for me, it's not to build My Portfolio.
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  It's rather for eternity for Hashem, for other people as part
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  of the concept. So humility is key and shaping
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  our mind and it's recognized in the fact that God has the ladder
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  that goes up and down. Another point on this idea is
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  how effective he moved. It's now they go to the next
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  step. Let's take one more step of
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  humility and then we'll show you an additional concept this
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  Garrett and I'm Bond. He continues before telling you
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  that after telling you that Hashem takes people up and down.
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  He says the line left hand because God takes people before
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  I before I ask your question, is that an encouraging or
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  discouraging line that Hashem takes people up and down?
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  That God spends his time bringing people up and down the
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  ladder of life? Is that encouraging or
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  discouraging? You think it's both.
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  How is it encouraging? You have to keep you have to
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  realize that that things change in life every day.
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  You have to make sure you're always making the best of every
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  moment, OK? So the way he says that is and
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  that's correct. The way he says is again, he
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  telling his son that I'm bond. Lower yourself first because if
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  you, if you realize that Hashem takes things up and down, you
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  got to be prepared. He better be ready and therefore
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  you better make the first move. He writes it this way.
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  Make the first move. You take yourself down because
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  Hashem is basically coming after in a certain sense, Hashem is
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  going to lower the arrogance to allow yourself to make that
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  move, to keep yourself humble. And then I'm one.
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  You'll be safe from this issue and #2 actually, the opposite
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  happened. Carl will lift you up, lower
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  yourself down. You're prepared.
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  You're thinking ahead. You're recognizing this ladder.
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  And then I shamble #1 protect you and your mood and even lift
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  you up. And that's a key point.
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  I always laughed at my favorite story of humility that I learned
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  the hard way. You know my story.
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  You know what? I'm sorry.
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  I was going to. I went to ascended summertime.
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  I said years ago in his speech. I went to Claude and car with my
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  wife. All right, my favorite story
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  exactly. I went to Glad Carte restaurant,
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  Borough Park. And growing up my father had it
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  sometimes Some of my siblings have it all the time.
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  And my mother told me last week, you know, when your brother goes
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  to a restaurant, everyone wants to pay family say ma, thank you
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  very much. No one doesn't mean I'm going
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  good. I went to the restaurant, my
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  wife and I'm in this restaurant. The guy comes over, the owner of
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  the restaurant comes over as he always does, and he goes over to
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  the people to ask him how you're enjoying the meal.
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  I said I'm enjoying it very much.
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  He asked him my name, so the name is Haber.
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  He said, oh, Haber, very nice. I listened to your brother and
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  this and there's a family, beautiful, very nice.
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  I go after the restaurant's over, after the we eating
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  without eating. I go to get the check and I'm by
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  the desk. I have to walk over to the desk
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  to get the check and the owner comes running over and he says,
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  wait, wait one second. So now I'm very excited.
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  I told you this. I'm very excited.
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  Standing there with my wife. I feel like $1,000,000.
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  You know, the governor says, wait one second, I'm a rabbi.
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  I must have made it. All of a sudden these things are
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  going through my head. I know no one ever heard my
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  classes online. But you know, who knows?
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  Maybe he heard, maybe he knows. Maybe all this is going through
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  my head. And when it comes running over,
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  I'm thinking, I told you my father got restaurants paid for
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  him, brothers did. Comes over with some of the bag
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  in his hand. It's a dessert.
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  He says, here, take this, give it to your brother.
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  I love this person like you have another error I was about to
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  say, and that was hilarious. My wife was looking at the
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  greatest part of the story was my wife's face.
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  Look at her like says you thought you something you
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  thought, you know, here's the reality.
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  And I I took it and I had it in my car.
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  And the funny part of the story is the addition to the story is
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  one day I had it in my fridge for a little while.
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  Was it and then my wife when they says you got to get rid of
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  you got to give it to Joey height gets out of the house.
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  So I took her in my car. I was like Next up I'm driving
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  on Bay Parkway, an Ave. P between a Parkway and and we
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  down somewhere like W 7th or something.
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  And how was he? I pull up the red light or every
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  Joey pulls over next to me. I rolled it down the window and
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  I said Joey here, take this house.
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  Oh my God. And the story he used it
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  already. Don't worry.
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  But the point is you got to humble yourself.
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  You can't let these thoughts go to your mind and go to your
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  head, and they can go there in a second, and they can be undone
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  in a second. What, am I out of my mind?
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  Some guy in Borough Park is going to know that I'm a rabbi
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  or whatever. We're crazy, right?
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  These things can go there and you can go.
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  Before you know it, you're on Planet 9, right?
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  And a person has to keep themselves humble at all times.
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  I have this trick that I've used before personally, and that I
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  usually wait for one thing. Find one area where you're still
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  humble. Find one area.
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  Even if you feel great about yourself, come up with something
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  that says you know that person doesn't know my name or that I
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  messed up over there. Not to degrade yourself, but
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  just to I say again, there go your wife.
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  He's happy. So bring it down.
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  Bring it down. Exactly right.
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  And the beauty is if you do humble yourself and if you do
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  carry yourself that way. And it is true, by the way, even
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  though that joke hanging out with your wife, it is true.
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  If a person allows themselves to become too arrogant, they kind
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  of mess up their home because they're not really what they
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  think they are. And then they get home and they
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  have to still be the guy that takes out the garbage or
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  whatever it is. Your version of that.
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  If you don't actually take out the garbage, they have a good
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  time for a reason. But your version of that, you
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  still have to be the guy who does certain things.
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  And if you allow yourself to go here, you know, how can you be
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  able to, you know, give your wife a moment to speak or talk
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  about little things or address the kids, all those normal
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  things that you're supposed to do as a human being you want to
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  allow yourself to do because you became too arrogant.
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  It's beneath me. And never allow yourself ever to
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  change, I think, to change what's beneath you.
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  If it wasn't beneath you 10 years ago or 20 years ago, it
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  shouldn't be beneath you now just because the statue has
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  changed. You want to be the same guy.
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  You always want to be the same guy.
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  And he says these words. Lower yourself and then the
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  beauty of it is Hashem will elevate you and it's a very
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  encouraging concept to your phone earlier is encouraging.
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  Hashem will actually build you up and if you keep yourself
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  grounded, God will build you up. And that's a beautiful thing to
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  know. If I want to feel good about
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  myself, I would think the best movies allow these things to get
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  to my head. No, the best movie is to not
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  allow them to get there. Keep yourself the same way.
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  And then which one of your boys is Mama's fair where you want to
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  go? OK, so this is the idea.
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  This is the concept. Keep yourself the same way, and
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  then you'll be elevated. That's the reality.
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  And it brings the classy example how she lives up the humble.
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  We've always heard about Beth Shamay and Bethila here with
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  them all time. Beth Shamay and Bethila, right?
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  Two different schools of thought, two different yeshivas,
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  we call it. And they used to discuss ideas
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  and fight about ideas. And they were argued that their
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  way of thinking and their way of thinking, the gemower brings
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  their names many times for their arguments.
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  These are classic arguments that we have.
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  For example, one of the most famous ones are how to light
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  them. And then should it be day one,
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  one, day 2/2, day three, three, or should it be 876543212
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  different respects? It's an argument of itself.
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  And this is an example of beta, my beta argument.
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  They're both great, unbelievably smart and intelligent.
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  Hamid Hamim great men and the Guerrara tells us the Halaha is
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  always like Bethelia. We always go with Bethelia.
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  Why is it because they're smarter, they had greater ideas,
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  greater thoughts. Doesn't say that, surprisingly,
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  the the law is like Syrian rabbis because they carry
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  themselves with more humility and they carry themselves in a
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  softer way. That's why the law is like them.
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  And they give my heads. And before they ever gave their
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  own opinion, they would have mentioned Bechami's opinion.
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  For us in the own Bangladesh, they would say like this.
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  Bechami says this, we say that they gave the other side enough
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  respect to mention their opinion.
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  And because of that, Bethie Lille is the one we go with.
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  Now, how does that make sense? Because they have good
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  character. That's a reason to to go like
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  them. So it plays into this point that
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  if you humble yourself, Hashem will make you successful.
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  That's clear. But it's a deeper point.
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  And that is this mindset, this character trait, His approach
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  allows you to be right more often than wrong.
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  How does that work? When a person is this way, they
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  make themselves more often right because they shave away.
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  There's another beauty of humility.
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  They shave with all the other factors in their mind and they
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  keep themselves locked into the truth.
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  You see a person's arrogant and you have an argument.
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  A lot of times the ego gets in the way and you can't back down.
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  You can't change his opinion, you can't hear new ideas.
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  I laugh at arguments because every time someone gets into
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  conversation, all they want to do 9 different ways is end up
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  being right. And if that's your goal, you're
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  going to end up the same place you started every time you hear
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  a debate, every time you hear some sort of argument in the
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  news, every time you see a conversation by the table, you
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  know, they started off trying to be right.
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  And have you ever seen someone actually say, oh, you know,
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  you're right and wrong? It takes it takes immunity.
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  And so Betty Lille, but being OK and accepting the other way of
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  thinking and saying their opinion first, it displays
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  humility more effective. It makes Betty Lille right
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  Because if you're able to be that way, then you're able to
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  eventually get the right truth out and you will be, your words
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  will be accepted greater. So why was Betty Lille more
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  effective than Betjamai? Why are they the ones we go
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  with? Why do we let them in and out
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  their way? Because they were humble.
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  How does that translate your unity and your character Allows
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  you to be right and allows Hashem to accept your approach
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  and allows you to be right. Because when you have this
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  mindset, often times you are actually more think thinking
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  you're accepting more ideas and you end up with the right
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  opinion. The dumbest, the silliest thing
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  to do is to be a person who's holding his own an argument and
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  trying to keep his ground. So you shouldn't have the
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  argument in the 1st place. Don't have the conversation.
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  What's the purpose of a conversation?
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  And the guy's arrogant and his goal is to be right.
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  There's zero purpose in that conversation.
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  A debate has no use. There's no purpose to a debate
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  because no one ever the purpose of a debate today is just a
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  shame on the other side and he's just to hold your ground.
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  That's not a real debate. The goal is to actually try to
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  develop ideas officially or definitely the the purpose, you
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  know, to have something called equal something on TV.
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  The goal is to develop ideas, develop ideas.
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  You need to actually have character, have humility.
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  And if you do so, you'll be more right.
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  You'll be right more often than the other guy.
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  Because you infuse into your mind characterize what he's
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  telling us that I'm Bond is telling his son is the ladder of
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  life. It goes up and it goes down.
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  God all day long is playing with this ladder, bringing people up,
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  taking people down, making people famous, making them no
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  longer famous, making people talented, removing the use of
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  the talent, making people well off and removing that wealth,
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  making people successful in areas, and they're removing that
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  as well. Very discouraging, no, but
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  really very encouraging because it tells us that a person should
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  keep themselves at the bottom of the ladder in their mind.
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  Don't allow yourself to climb because the more you climb, the
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  more you fall. I believe personally that when
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  people shoot up in any area of the Torah, in any area of the
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  community, in any area of fame, it doesn't make a difference.
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  If you shoot up too fast. It's scary.
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  You want to go up step by step. Part of the term ladder means it
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  should be normal, it shouldn't be crazy, it shouldn't be shot
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  like a rocket ship. Because when you do, the reality
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  is it comes down. It's just the way life is.
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  Got some? To that point about knowing I
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  shouldn't can take a person up and down at will, it could be
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  discouraging. Let's say a guy is doing well,
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  he's got a lot of money and Yeshiva says how about a
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  donation and he's capable of doing a lot.
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  But he says, you know, I shouldn't take me down next
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  week. I'm not going to give so much
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  now. Could could be discouraging.
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  That's be very real. That guy knows.
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  You're right about that. That guy knows.
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  And as we've seen it a million times, he could hold out to the
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  money left and right. The better chance he's going to
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  remain well off if he invests in something eternal.
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  Why? Because then you open up the
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  door to all those concepts where Hashem says you're a good
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  investment yourself. I placed the money in the right
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  place because you know why I gave it to you.
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  You're realizing where it came from.
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  You're realizing how it works. All those avenues open up on
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  this guy becomes a vehicle to deliver to other places when he
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  holds on to himself, being wary of that.
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  And of course, everyone has to be responsible when he holds on
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  to the money in a way of being afraid that it's going to lose.
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  We all know what can happen. We've all seen in a million and
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  1/2 times to know what happened, the best move for that
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  individual, that would be the response.
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  And it's not a fundraising response.
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  It's a logical based on history, based on people's lives
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  response. You've seen it, I've seen it.
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  The guy who invests, yes, sometimes everyone has ups and
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  downs. That's a reality.
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  But he has MOBA in so many ways. He has MOBA on his wealth, he
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  has MOBA on his family. He has MOBA with his name.
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  He has MOBA on his Peace of Mind.
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  Everything plays into much more beauty.
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  We've seen our own community, two types of families, the ones
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  that they give, but they have, it's like squeezing, you know,
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  something out or the ones who really just give that ever with
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  their ease. The difference in the barakah of
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  their name and of their success and the ability for God to bless
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  them again and again and again in different avenues is
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  unbelievable. It's so simple.
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  And those families, actually, they'll be the ones to tell you
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  that they know, they've seen it. They are the best ambassadors of
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  charity, these families, because they've seen it first hand.
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  It doesn't make sense why this happened, why that happened.
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  I mean, I've seen on my own level when I gave, I got a check
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  last night, I opened up the mail.
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  I got a check last night from some sort of random IRS thing.
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  Why does IRS send me money? I don't think that's how it's
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  supposed to be. I think I'm supposed to send
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  them one. Why they send you money, I don't
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  know. Maybe because I got a check on
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  Friday. Yeah, yeah, I can find right.
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  He's not $400.00 exactly. We all got 403 hundred 400, I
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  got 3. It.
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  Might indicate something else, by the way, getting these
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  checks, I might not want to publicize that.
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  But the reality is, is that we've got these checks and the
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  point is that money comes. This is a class here.
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  Money comes from left field all over the place.
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  Smartest thing to realize that your greatest bank is God and
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  the greatest source of money is God and he'll give you more if
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  he sees you being a guy who does a good job with it, being a very
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  good holder of the money. That's the money.
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  So that's the answer, Saul, to your point and to recognize the
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  ladder, accept the ladder in life that there's an up, there's
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  a down. There's a lot of reasons for
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  that ladder, but one of them is to encourage us to remain the
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  same guy. Nothing is more endearing and a
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  guy who makes it big and makes it the same and nothing is more
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  but less likeable, in my opinion.
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  And the person that makes it big in any area and changes his
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  ways, that guy, you don't want him.
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  The other guy, you love him, you want to be around him all the
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  time because there's a beauty, there's a charm, there's an
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  endearing, there's a humility, and there is actually an endless
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  barakah that comes to that individual.
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  And Saddam Bond is telling his son, lower yourself first
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  because otherwise you got to be wary of the ladder.
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  Keep yourself and your mind on the bottom of the ladder.
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  And then I shall bless you. That'll keep rising you up.
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  Stop with this.