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Rabbi Moshe Haber Perashat Ki Tabo The Mindset of Appreciation and Service 9.10.25 · Rabbi Moshe Haber - Daily Mussar/Weekly Perasha

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As if you're giving to our today.
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Treat every day like it's the first day.
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OK, but it's too funny. We're already on this day more.
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And then he says, ETA Hashem guarding God Hemarta, you have
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proclaimed but something special about God, the old Nahando
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Nukim. To make Hashem your guard, use
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the word hemarta, a new word. You have proclaimed the God as
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your guard to follow his ways to keep his laws fine.
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And therefore Vashem Hamid ha and God has therefore proclaimed
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that today that you are going to be a special nation and he's
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going to make you more elevated in the world of the nations.
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So you have the following points.
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You have proclaimed God special with the word Amida and God has
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therefore proclaimed you to become special people.
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And what she says is a new words.
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The word amira is an old word, but it's a new way of talking.
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You have Hamir, you have proclaims new kind of talk.
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I don't understand what she says.
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He says these words and we don't have any other example and the
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entire reign Torah of such a thing as so and so proclaiming
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with the word amira or she says or she gives an explanation.
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So the question I have in the morning is this or Sherry Bin
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says what seems like a very basic general classic .2 of
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people. You're keeping it today.
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You have accepted to keep the Tsarami thought let's sing them
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all. And then he has the word you are
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proclaimed that God, especially God is becoming a special.
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Where is this coming in? What is my chef and saying he
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knew he said it so many times. It's no more and the the editor
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issue, the editor issue, I wanted to follow us.
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There's no water. Yes, Ramban says Ramban says on
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this day, says Ramban, what was this day?
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Let's go in more detail. He says up until this point when
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Schneiderman was explaining and giving out all the laws of the
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total, whatever was left from this up till this day, today we
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are just completed all the explanation of all laws.
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We're done any of them. It's vote that come up in the
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rest of the total are throwing. They are really more shaving his
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goal. His final mitzvot were just
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completed and then he says the words hayom from today and
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onward. Now that you have all the laws
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you need to know what you're holding.
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You have accepted to keep all the to the mitzvot to where
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hayom has now a deeper meaning. It means and this day on now
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that you have all the and you are proclaimed.
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I read it on by and sorry Hine Heshleim Moshe Levaye Moshe been
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and behold has completed clarifying that gave us all the
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mitzvot. They got his toes down with the
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car and therefore Omar Moshe has said Hiyo mazer on this day
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Carlos can man you to keep the loss because you've just
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finished all the loss going forward.
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You got to keep them like a no person.
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You have to keep them and you are high level, but you just
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finished all the loss. OK, you still don't know.
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We know what the hayom means because now that you have the
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laws today is special because I don't know what is it the words
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you Jews have proclaimed the God is special and God has
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proclaimed that we're a meter. Let's back up the para Shah
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began began Kitavo ES mitzvah bikulim.
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Where is mitzvah bikulim? There is a Jew who comes to
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Israel. There's anything I was like that
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When Jew comes to Israel, he settles in, right?
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He sells into the land. He has a field.
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The first fruits of his field, he wraps a red string around it
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called a gammy red string. And then when our fruit grows,
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he takes that fruit and other fruits to Israel.
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And he says Jewish lion, excuse me?
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And he says a whole speech thanking God for everything.
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He gave us the speech. He was used by the state of the
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night. That speech came from the
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mitzvah bikini and this is mitzvah is the opening of
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operation. You have all eyes when you come
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into the land. You have to do this mitzvah all
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right now. So according to what we have,
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this mitzvah really is and the last few mitzvah before Mosheba
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says the word hayom, before he makes the proclamation that
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today in armour you're a complete nation.
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So it's interesting. The last of the mitzvahed is
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bikrim and Wilsim said these are the last two mitzvahed.
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What is this mitzvah? What is the concept?
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What's the cost of be green first fruit thanking God
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appreciate what he gave us. Let's look at some details of
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this mitzvah and don't bring out our point.
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The password starts like this supply show what's about this
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now Yeah when you come into the land which God gave you Nahallah
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as inherits and you're going to inherit the shaft about and
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you're going to settle there take the first fruits and bring
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them to a special place to the bed of my dash bring them to the
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Cohen and then say the speech OK so it opens up with this idea
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when you come into the land you settle down bring the first
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fruits and you say the whole speech of things right.
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So I want to say a certain concept I want to develop in
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detail in a second. You have Moshe Evander will say
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10 hour. Once you've done the tall tada,
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you're on all the law. The last of the mitzvot is
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bikrim. One other one I want to ask the
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question, why is Ukraine so close to the end?
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Why is bikrim? Is there a shot?
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Is there a purpose of the mitzvah of hakarata to being in
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place? They're about to enter it.
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They got to go on that side. Show is any relationship between
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this final mitzvah with one more and Michelle Ben was saying his
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speech, which is today. Once you're done you're on a
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whole new look. What's the connection between
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the Kareem and we'll share his speech.
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This is my own question, but I want to develop a point and that
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point is this when it comes to being a Jew.
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One of the most fundamental things that could help us serve
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God, that can build our connection to Hashem is not at
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all is the mindset of appreciating what we have, of
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thanking and appreciate what we have.
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And we're certainly structuring it that way.
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So he opens up with the parasha with this unique missile.
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We'll get into the detail, the unique missile of thanking God,
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and then he gets eventually to a point that today you're on a
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whole new plane. What's your relationship being
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that we have the missile of thanking being that we have the
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no pun intended to classes of thanking Hashem being that we
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have this perspective now we can serve properly as much as I've
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been a structure to Al Prasha, so it opens up will be clean and
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then eventually it gets to today our own level because once you
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have appreciation, the service of God is hold if or not this is
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the mindset. Is Hakarata T.O.K appreciating
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what you have, what you were given, or?
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What you wake up? Or how you got there, or how you
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were positioned to get where you are today.
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What if I said all three? I was going to say all three,
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but I think all three. I prove it to you.
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Why? Wait?
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What's your point, guy? No.
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I was saying to you, I don't think it's, it's more of what
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you have. It's not saying thank you for
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what you have. It's thank you for getting you
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to where you are today. And you're right.
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And the proof there is the Mithali Kurim.
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The guy wraps the registering around the food.
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He brings it to you, Chalan, and he says his speech and his
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speech starts with the words Aramio Vedavi.
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He says with these words he got at the Ayom.
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I'm going to tell you today, I told you today that from the
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beginning Lavan wanted to attack Yaakov Aveeno and he's protected
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as God and he took care of the alcohol all the way down to
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Egypt and then all the way out, which means you think of what
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you have or you were given and how you got there.
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All three that you said absolutely.
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In fact, that's the key point. Hakarat, the toe of the war is
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hakarat, which is recognizing, recognizing means.
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And you identified the whole picture.
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You don't just look what we have.
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I'm not just appreciative of the coffee, I appreciate if someone
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made it for me, someone purchased of us and all the
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things that led to it. That's Falakara, in fact, Rashi
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says. But the beginning of speech says
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Rashi, this word, the guy comes to the Gohan and he says Rashi
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Shehna, kafui tova. The purpose of the speech is to
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thank, but more important than to thank is the avoiding the
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other option, which is a person covering the good.
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The goal of appreciation is to reveal to your eyes everything
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that led to what you're holding today.
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The word other words kafui tov, Kafui tov means you're holding
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back, you're ignoring, you're not recognizing the good, you're
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hiding in our appreciating all that you were given.
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And that is the goal, to do the opposite and to bring it out, to
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reveal and to reveal it to our eyes.
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And this is meant to be read in to the mitzvah of Musharraf and
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his words hayom, the word mushiyomazi.
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On this day we we serve God and on this day we want a whole new
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plane. How does that work?
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How does the mitzvah hakarata tov lead in to the service of
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ocean? How does it translate and how do
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you work that helps to have a closer connection fashion or at
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different levels? Exactly.
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The basic level and the core concept is, is that a more a
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person recognizing God's existence in his life, the more
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he wants to listen to God's Word, the more he feels
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appreciative and the more he feels like some of his feet
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giving back. That's the simple, clear
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concepts. And what should everyone is
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saying now that you've accepted it and learned the mitzvah of
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Hakarata Tov to the false extent of recognizing everything that
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you got to this point and you're avoiding the other option would
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just come for you to have holding back.
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Now that you add this degree. Now you became a nation because
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now I yo Maziah, and now I can expect you to serve Ashton the
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full way. And then he says these words you
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have proclaimed God is God. How about we proclaim this new
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word proclaim by speaking at Hakaratov, by speaking out
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everything Hashem at Belfast we put in our eyes Hashem.
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I kind of love when a person says God gave me my wife, gave
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me my children, gave me my home, gave me my job, gave my income,
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gave me my house. He sees 1000 times more of God.
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And the other guy sounds like an acceptance.
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Yes, it is other guy who just appreciates when he just made an
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extra dollar and he feels a good feeling, that's all he
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recognized from Hashem. That guy has like 20 minutes
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with Hashem a week. Whereas the person who is
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recognizing all these things, he has a much stronger relationship
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because he has so much more. Hashem has latitude.
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So much should have been able to say once you've accepted this at
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Spa of B Queen and you fully absorb it, what's going to
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happen is it's going to change his service of Hashem because I
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read the words again on this day going forward, Hashem God has
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commanded you to do all the laws.
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I had to do it with all love and all the heart and you are doing,
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you are proclaimed to make Hashem your God, to follow his
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ways to keep his laws and listen to his voice.
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And therefore Hashem is going to do so in return because you are
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recognizing so much more of Hashem.
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Hashem is going to see so much more of us.
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This is destruction. Hashem.
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Mrs. Moshe will elevate us, will put us above all the other
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nations, because He's seeing much more of us, being that
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we're seeing so much more of him based on the deep concept of
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hakaratov. Point being, hakaratov is not
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just a nice mitzvah or a nice way of appreciating what it is
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actually is revealing to our own eyes.
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How much more? That's one whomever we think
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exists when a child has a carried off to their parent,
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What's happening is all of a sudden they're realizing one
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second. My parents spent thousands,
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hundreds of thousands, ugly millions of dollars on me.
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OK, I never told him thank you once.
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Very possibly they spent hours and sleepless nights on me and
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never said thank you once. All of a sudden you realize how
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much more a parent is a parent, how much more they exist and
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therefore in turn you do that much more for them.
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You're inclined to do so because they exist more and you want to
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do back to them. That's what should have been a
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structure. And that's why I believe he's
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put this Mizlab right before the final point, right before he
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says his point, because he wants to lead us in the great service.
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He says how your name writes. He tries to get Jewish people to
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be motivated to serve Hashem and he says, and I always had a hard
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time with this concept. Now I'm understanding, he says,
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one of the greatest triggers or motivations to serve God.
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He says any person in any situation pretty much can look
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at their life and say I don't deserve the blessing that I
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have. And once they do, they feel more
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inclined to serve. And this is one of the great
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motivators. The whole time, he says, is the
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appreciation. We think we know the regular
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structure. The regular structure is you
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serve God because you're maybe, you know, I had a conversation
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with someone or something, they kept saying, I don't want to
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punish me for saying what I'm saying.
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I don't want to punish me. And I want to tell this person,
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listen, God's not going to punish you #1 #2 your structure
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is not proper because God doesn't want you to do things
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because you're afraid of punishing.
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He wants you to do it. The simple way is of love about
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him. A deeper way maybe is yet ah,
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which is fear, but not the furnishing type.
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But deeper than both of those is the one that we have today.
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And that is how come out the talk, a sense of appreciation
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and a recognition. All right, this is the minds.
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I'll make a look over in a second.
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This is the sharks. You have it so far.
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Now, here's an interesting thing.
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We're telling you to make you, you know, sorry to make you a
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cold. I'm telling you I'm mostly a sea
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guy. Look at this, at the second last
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mazal, what the last mitzvot was this one because Michelle wants
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us to serve and is how we serve. I appreciate what's the last
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mitzvah. The last mizaal is also a verbal
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1 like this one, but it's not a speech of our fruit.
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Last one is it's called Vidui Maser.
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You ever heard of Vidui Maser? Do you know what that is?
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Hanukkah time around this, before Hanukkah existed, it was
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an Ignan where Jew gets up somewhere and says I have given
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all my Mas there. I have paid all my taxes so to
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speak. I paid up all my charity bills.
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I've given all my Mas there. I've listened to you.
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I shout, I gave away all to the poor.
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Everything he wanted in me, I gave.
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I gave my first mas there and my second Mas there from the field.
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I did it all. The statement, that's the last
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mitzvah. So we explained to you how be
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quoting is a second lesson if it's with Musharraf and his
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point of serving Hashem, 'cause I got the dog he's in serving
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Hashem. How does this mitzvah, which is
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a person proclaiming that I've given to the poor and I've taken
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care of what you want me to take care of, how does that lead into
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serving Hashem better? So here's a theme.
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What time of year is that? I think they do we do my server
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on how to call time. It's somewhere do.
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People have an accounting of their income.
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Everything. By that time, but till today.
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No, we don't have this time deadline anymore.
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I don't know why. Why one of these deadlines, I
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don't know. But this is done in those days
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and some people don't want to go into Russia now with any debt.
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That's why we don't have this deal.
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I don't know why this is time. And maybe see, maybe because the
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man said they were talking about was my serve crop, which we
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don't have, but I'm not sure. So now with his speech, how does
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this lead into what should have been on his point?
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You've done it all, now you're ready to be a full Jew.
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So I think the idea is this, when a Jew is willing to give of
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his money to another person, he's once again recognizing the
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same recognition that the Hakarat Tov had, which means I
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always think of this. You're generous.
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We're generous, right? Community people are generous
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people from other side of the world.
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The rest of the world looks at us like crazy.
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Someone asks you for $800, a $1000, and they're giving it
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like this, right? These numbers, they think we're
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out of our mind. It's such cherosity.
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It's we're giving. Well, how do we do it?
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We all do it because we know the money came from Hashem, which
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means you have the Aquarada talk point #1 which you recognize
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everything came from Hashem. And then you have the verbal
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statement. I did my dues.
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I paid everything I gave away in my charity because I know God
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and proving the point that you gave it to me and you want me to
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do the right thing with it. Hey, look, I'm giving it to your
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son I'm taking care of. So it's again not ours anyway,
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it's not ours. Again, confirming the concept
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that I know where it came from. So you start with bikini
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Makarata Tov, recognizing the source and then you act upon it.
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I mean you're speaking out your action upon it by giving it to
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the poor, following God's lead, saying I know where it came
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from. My Shelburne says confirmation
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Jew and you know that God gave you everything and now I know
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you're going to serve it correctly.
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This is the mindset of this destruction.
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His idea. OK, this is with words and
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that's why he says you have proclaimed that shem to God.
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That's point on one couple of cute things all in this bequirni
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mitzvah. What is this?
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He wraps around the fruit a red string called the gammy.
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It's a word for a red string. I saw one of the civilian brain
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gaming is abbreviation for the word Ketulim Mahase.
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Hashem with the youth. Great are the actions of God.
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When you wrap around the string you're proclaiming, great are
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the actions of God. Now this is point number one for
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service of Hashem. When you have Akrata tool it
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changes the service. I'll give you an example as if
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it's far we know of the Shuva Shiva is a big time mitzvah is
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during this season and the most famous book on teshuvah is
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called Shari teshuvah. It's rained by a Rishon Shari
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teshuvah. He gives you the ways of doing
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the Shiva and he opens up by saying these words he says Minha
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tovot. One of the great gifts and God
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gave us is mitzvah of teshuvah and therefore.
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Take your take your opportunity, take the chant, go for it
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because it's a great gift. All right.
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So recently, just last week, my brother-in-law rejoined was I
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wrote in a pedush honor of anyone on this day, unbelievable
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pedush. He dropped his daughter dropped
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off my mailbox and Shaval was leaking it up.
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And he explains, why does this book of teshuva open up with
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doors? One of the great gifts God gave
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you is this thing called repentance.
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Why do you start with calling it a gift?
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What's the importance? Every word in this book is
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powerful. So what is the importance of
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telling me that the Shiva is a gift?
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He writes from any sources that the more you recognize it being
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a gift from Hashem, the more you're inclined to use it.
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The more you're inclined to do and to utilize the taller
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Hashem, because that's how it works.
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When we recognize that God gave me something, I feel more
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inclined to both serve Him, to use what He gave me for him.
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That's the mindset, that's the structure.
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Follow me simply. This is the idea.
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The more you see the Tovava sham in your life, the more you serve
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God. That's why I can have the Tov is
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our identity, our existence, and what should everyone's placing
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at the end of the Torah before the level of Jewish people being
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special? Because only once you have
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Akharatov, you here say any Shiva to Shiva.
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If you see to Shiva as a gift, you're inclined, he says, to
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use. That's the mindset.
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OK, but there's one other point in the power of Akharatov.
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This is very important in this pressure.
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What else is recognizing the good to feel?
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What does it do besides making you serve as him?
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Miss anything else gives you perspective for what for sake
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the sake of knowing what you have something that instead of
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looking and saying something I don't have look, we do have been
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happy for and grateful. OK, man, key word there.
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Recognizing the good and recognizing the gifts has a
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second component and this can be a gift for anybody.
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A second very powerful component and that is whatever you are
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doing in life, it'd be Simcha. Whatever you do in life is with
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happiness because when you walk down the street knowing
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everything that I have is all given to me, it's all extra,
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which is all not deserved. You're inclined to feel good
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about that gift. It makes you happier in your
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existence. Sadness I'm not feeling complete
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comes from the mindset that we deserve to be complete or I
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should be complete and I'm not. I'm lacking something.
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But if I'm starting from scratch and I see it as a gift and I
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internalize this, that I'm bissamha, I'm bissamha when I
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serve I Hashem because I'm appreciating the gift and I'm
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bissamha in general. That's why the words that the
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guy uses by the Bequeen are these words after the same
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speech. He says he, the pasuk says he,
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the guy says his speech thinking of everything he says.
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And now here's my fruit, says the pasuk.
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And then this samakhda, behold, I told you're going to be happy
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with all the good that God gave you to you and your family and
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your home has the basuk. No, you're going to be happy.
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Has the basuk? No.
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Because when a person proclaims that I have this gift and that
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gift and the other gift from the 4th gift from the 5th gift,
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automatically there's a sense of happiness both in his service of
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Hashem and his existence on this road.
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He recognizes and absorbs that God gave me gifts and I feel
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appreciative to have them. That's the speech that they.
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Tell you know individually what they had like they're.
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Not, you know, they just it's general, it's true, it's all
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generic, it's true. But the hope, hope, please
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listen to everyone, listen to their speech.
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It's true. It is a general speech, but it's
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meant for us to be our own personal example of recognizing
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the good, recognize how we got there, appreciating it.
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And it does two things. It makes us serve and it makes
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us happy, and these are the two things we want.
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We want to be complete Jews. I want to be complete, happy
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people. And the way you do that 1000%
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comes from Akron at the top. What's the problem?
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The problem is, I want to incline to think that this is
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all normal. We're inclined instead see what
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missing. Our nature is to see what's
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missing. We all know this to be the case,
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but we have to understand their implications.
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When a person appreciates, then they serve with some ha, and
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they do these right with you know, You know, So I think about
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this all the time. What is the way out?
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What is the way out of the norm? Instead of seeing this, we
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usually see the opposite. And the reason we do so is
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because everyone around us has more.
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Everyone else has it figured out in that area and it's quite
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difficult to have the sense of appreciation.
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I don't know the method, but the Torah is saying from starting
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point number one, look at everything as a gift.
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Look at everything you have as a gift.
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We tell the guy to appreciate, like you said to him before, the
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whole process. We go all the way back to the
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beginning because the more he does so as the more he's got
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real accurate thought. I'll tell you an important
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point, the words this guy used in the beginning of his speech.
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Here's the words he got the D high young I have told you
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today. This is before he starts his
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speech. He says the words I have told
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you today and explain that he didn't say a word.
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The guy Danny, he says I have told you today all the good that
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Hashem has done for me. He starts off his speech is the
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word past tense. How do you explain that?
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Just by him being man, says the clear car.
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Hakaratov is a concept. It's verbal, the concept with
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words, but in reality it's also a concept that's noticeable in
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the actions. There are people who say thank
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you, ask him all day long, but they don't seem so happy or so
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thing and that's a lock he says are really displaying our gods,
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though. It's meant to guide not only our
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words, but more importantly our actions.
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How does it guide our actions? It guides how much we serve
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Hashem. It's noticeable in that way.
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It's noticeable in the fact now that we said we're happy all
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right. Now if you see words also the
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happiness, it's noticeable and how much we use Hashem as gifts
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for him, right? As again an indication and I
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know where it came from. So it's noticeable not only in
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your words, but also in your previous action.
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So he says the words I am telling you He meant to say
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everything I've done up until this point, you know, in this,
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this example, bringing the fruit and all that as telling you, as
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telling you that I appreciate what you learned from me.
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And then he says the words. So it's a message for words, or
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maybe even more importantly, it's a message for how we act to
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Aqua. Now we say that those two things
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to make you served by the sham and it makes you happy.
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Later on in the Praia Shah, we have the curses and the
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blessings. Want to say one more point
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before you? When the person makes his
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speeches, he closes out by saying to God, Hashem, I'm
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asking of you, Hashiva memo on Korcheka Menasha Mayer, please
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shower us down from a place called meon, a holy place in
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heaven, and bless us, U bare ET a mecha de sail.
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Now that we've said our speeches with the bikorim and the
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speeches about the Master, and we recognize all your gifts you
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gave us and we appreciate them, we're happy.
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God, please shower us a blessing from that place called on.
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OK, you ever heard of a place called Moen?
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Never heard this place, Danny. OK, a little fun fact.
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This place called Moen, there's something called the seven
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heavens. It's a top.
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The top heaven is called Moen. OK, fun fact #1 fun.
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I don't know this from Noah's. I know this.
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Atlanta yesterday. Fun fact, Number 2 is all right.
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Number 2, is there really whatever this means God doesn't
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usually send good stuff down from that spot.
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He usually sends the opposite. That's where she says normally
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Hashem sends not good things down from on.
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It's one of God's heavens and not good comes from there and I
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went to Vila. When we say these things is give
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us and given from on and what do I need to know what's top heaven
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and what do we need to know that God usually sends bad stuff and
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we're asking for good. This is an important concept
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when a person has Hakaran Tattoof works so hard to get to
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that does he changes everything to be positive.
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The concept is is a God. We're asking of Him to change
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everything in our life to be positive and every part of His
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system to be turned into a positive system.
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In other words, if I am seeing and recognizing everything in my
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life is how I have to do everything and I'm asking that I
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Shem could shower me with only good.
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And we have no business making such a request normally, but we
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do when we just recognize real. I can have the toe of everything
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in my life is good. I appreciate everything you gave
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me. If you have those eyes, then
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that's the first time you can ask for God to shower good even
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from a place that only brings bad.
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These are the words Rashid what she says, not Rashid.
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The other rabbis say normally this is a place that brings out
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bad, but today we're asking for good.
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How about, you know, I'm rabbis say call out of ski father.
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Ah, normally all this type is really a bad sort of giving out
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from God. Now we're asking Hashem to give
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from that same place. Good.
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What do we get that business? I think so.
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It could. OK, so we told you a few things.
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I hope they're structured. I want to give you an order.
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Once again. I say we started the Baja.
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I don't want to go to one more point.
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Right. Could it be also that the the
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bad we think it's bad but. It's good, very good, very good.
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That's another level. That's the highest level.
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I'll get to that right now in a second.
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Nothing is bad right now. Do you have an easy way of
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accepting that point, that even things that seem like they're
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bad can't be good? Easy way?
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Yeah. Do we all believe it?
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No. It's not supposed to be easy.
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Do we all believe we see it in hindsight, But you don't see it
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while it's happening? Someone sees in hindsight over
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the weekend, See in hindsight, but you don't see what's
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happening. Correct.
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God forbid there's things tragic can happen, right?
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There's nothing, you know. No, that's good.
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Now we're going to see. Now we can't see.
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No. But there's obviously sight,
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Right? But that point, Jeffrey, is a
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very powerful point. And that builds, which is once a
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person absorb the minds of Akharatov and he starts getting
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used to the idea of seeing everything coming from Hashem,
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he gets to a point that he can handle.
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He's not interested, he doesn't accept it, but he can handle
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when things happen and he sees them with the right lens.
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That's all he gets to. No one's expecting us to get
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beyond that point, but that point itself is very impressive
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to be able to see things and deal with things and have a way
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of working with them that requires a constant perspective
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of seeing God and everything we think.
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It's funny, I saw yesterday after the terrible terrorist
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act, I saw a rabbi say a statement, it's all for my shem.
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I'm wondering what's the rabbi's goal with this statement?
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Like what are you going to do develop?
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And we're not at this point, I'd say keep, stay away.
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We're going to lay low from it. Not the best time to say it's
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all for my Shem, But what he's saying is to reality all this to
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be true. And that is with the right
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perspective and being, you know, learning this concept enough, we
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have a way of seeing Hashem in these times, even though it
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seems like we should go the other way instead of we go that
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way. That's a strange thing, but
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that's our education based on our right perspective.
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To your point, right, That's something that's the way, not
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easy way, but it's the reality way that we feel and we sense
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even though we shouldn't, but we do because we're educated and we
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think the right way. This is destruction.
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Now I want to make one more point.
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That's Richard completely in the middle of the Pahasha when
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Shabana gets to the blessings in the curses and he goes to town
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on the curses. Terrible.
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OK, well, they know that never happened.
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That never will happen. They're too bad.
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But in the middle of the curses he says why would God take this
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away and that away? Another thing away he says,
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doesn't say as a punishment for terrible sins.
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Why would God give not good you know tahat as a replacement or a
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place up because we didn't serve Hashem.
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The reason that there's such a thing called curses in the only
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reason they exists is not so much as a punishment.
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Punishment is a whole different system.
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The idea of the curse and album I shot are because a person did
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not serve God with happiness and appreciation was considered
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curse terrible things. I can't read them so bad.
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But how do you explain this? How do you that's why these
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things exist? What is he saying?
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So the rabbi said Mushibello did not ever mean for these curses
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ever exist. What he meant to say is, is that
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the more or the less a person recognizes God's existence, the
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less he turns that into service of us.
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The less he turns it into some ha in service of Hashem, the
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less he deserves those blessings.
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Because the reality is, everything that we're given in
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life is meant to trigger all these triggers, appreciation,
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happiness, service of God through happiness.
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It's all meant to bring that out.
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So Mashima was saying the curse is Makamundo, the Pasha, and
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then he says, why do they exist? Because the person didn't serve
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God with happiness. That's a reason to get these
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things. What he means to say is it's a
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reason God doesn't give the person everything he can have,
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his chosen, his health, all these things because he's not
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really recognizing them and utilizing them for the fullest.
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That's the mindset doesn't mean to say curses his punishments.
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He rather than means to say a void of blessing cause void of
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gifts because you're not utilizing the gifts correctly.
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That's all he means to say. This is the mindset, this
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destruction, and for us, it's meant to tell us we all have
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gifts in our life. We all have talents, we all have
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strengths, we all have capabilities.
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Every one of them. Every talent that you have and
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every gift that you have, one way or another, is supposed to
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be utilized for good. Everyone, your strength, your
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intellect, your money, your personality, your advice, your,
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your health, everything that you have, your time, it's all meant
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for one purpose, to be utilized for good, which is serving
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Hashem. That's the idea, whether or to
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be literally doing it's what Hashem or taking care of other
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people. It's all meant for that.
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And that's why I kind of don't play such a big role in service
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of Hashem, because really that leads to service of Hashem.
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That's the mindset, Hum. I want to structure it in order
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to make it clear. Misha starts with the mitzvah
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Bakarat, the Thor B Queen presentized.
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Registering around the fruit brings it.
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This is a very long speech of where all his gifts came from,
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recognizing the good. This is the second to last
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mitzvah. Then it goes on to a person
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making a speak speech about how I've given all my charity.
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Then what Jabinow says, On this day you have fully become a
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nation. Today you are a man, Today you
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are a man. Today you become a nation
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because you will proclaim God, your God, and in turn God will
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proclaim you his people. How so?
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Because when we recognize you see our shaman, everything, we
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therefore use our money the right way for charity, and we
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therefore are proclaiming God, our God over everything.
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We're seeing much more of our shaman, our life because we're
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appreciating. It's not just making us more
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thankful, it's also making us closer Jews, and in turn, Kaab
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becomes closer to us. That was point #1 and point #2
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is we do things with some ha. Once we have this perspective,
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everything is done by some ha. We gave examples like to Shiva.
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Once you realize to Shiva is a gift, you feel more inclined to
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do to Shiva. Once you realize your money is a
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gift, you feel more inclined to give your monster.
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That's the mind, all right. And we said the inverse la lino
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is that later on in the past and says those bad things come
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because we didn't serve Asheim, but somehow such a very thing.
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Yeah, because a lack of appreciation of God's gifts.
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It's a lack of utilizing God's gifts and therefore you don't
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get the alcohol. So so so if we don't have
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so-called the Hakata Tahsheim, there's something behind it with
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it will be punished for that. No way you're saying really
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tragic. I'm not saying charged with you
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whenever the thing in charged with you Cap you're not going to
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get that blessed to kill you not just not going now you recognize
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your acknowledgement of him. The more you recognize the more
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you utilize and the more God gives you to us.
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That's the structure that's goes hand in hand.
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Basically, we're not taking advantage of she's off and our
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job is look at everything that we have in our lives and see how
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she gave it to me and he gave it to me for a purpose.
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It's very important mindset that's a necessary one.
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I'll give you a classic example that happened to me in the
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summer. So as you know, we had a baby in
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the summer all right now and the whole year.
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Normally all my other children were born during winter time,
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which is much more structured. I live back-to-back on my inlaws
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perfect. My life feels labor pains.
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My mother-in-law comes, sometimes I follow, even comes
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right ice in the backseat. He drives, it's there it is, and
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you go to the hospital. All good.
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Exactly. But the problem was having a
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baby in the summer I met and to follow the possibilities.
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I was in Lakewood during the weekdays where my own ones were,
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and D'alantra bats spent most of the shit as I was most of the
40:02
Shabbat and shoe half of Shabbat and shoe a lot of them Friday
40:04
nights, a lot of sharanshu. OK, now.
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I'm all those in Lakewood. My wife's in the house on the
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well pond. Random.
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I'm initial. What happens if she's labor?
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Where's the doctor? City City.
40:19
The city horrors docks in the city, not silent golden.
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So what's going to happen if she wells, if she kills labor on a
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Friday afternoon, Friday night, Saturday morning?
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I'm doomed, right? I wanted the percentage chance
40:35
that I'm not in in in the hospital with Shabbat.
40:38
We're having this crazy situation.
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Oh no. For some reason the doctor told
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us for some random meeting, told us I think the best time to go
40:47
is this time and he chose a date.
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Perfect. It was a Tuesday night,
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Wednesday morning. Can he chose it?
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Come in scheduled. Scheduled.
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Thank God. All good bro.
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I sent everyone out, came home Thursday night so I didn't have
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any Shabbat issues. No issues.
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I can't hold those in a All right.
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Friday morning. I thought I like went to
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Lakewood. Now I'm like, do I go to deal
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with Shabbat? Do I not go to deal with
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Shabbat? You know we're going to beat me
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like 24 hours ago. I go to deal.
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All right, leave my wife. What do you think, Danny?
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Go good. How's are you ever going to walk
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again? Is that wife is home by then?
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Wife came home with us and I Yes.
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Oh, wow. Came by my endless and the
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deciding yeah I came back to this the deciding factor where
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to go and made the baby in deal while she's in Lakewood.
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What was the deciding factor? It was very clear very clear.
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If I had sham orchestrated all this he obviously all right.
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I was nervous the whole summer. I mean, there's no other rabbi
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in the morning over there. There's no learning and that's
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the empty Shem orchestrator obviously wants it to be the
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right way and that was a designing factor.
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Wife was on board. They all worked out it's great.
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OK question is though, huh. Question in wardrobe.
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The question is is that they go for it.
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Why isn't the question that is is that they go for a hook line
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and say this great line exactly. I stayed by my mother.
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I took to some easy kids and that was them.
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But my point is, is that you have to be.
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I took something exactly. Point is when you have something
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that God gives as a gift, it's meant to be appreciated, to make
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you happy and to utilize to serve as Shannon.
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That's right. That's the idea of beautiful.