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Rabbi Moshe Haber Perashat Ki Tisa-The Dual Fire of Wealth: Constructive and Destructive Money 3.5.26 · Rabbi Moshe Haber - Daily Mussar/Weekly Perasha

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  We have an Alpha Shaw multiple short the major topics.
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  The first one is Kitty Saw a man which talks about countings and
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  as we mentioned it, Shagalim just literally 2 weeks ago.
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  So it doesn't feel like it's a distant topic.
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  But here's where we come to it head on.
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  In Alpha Shaw, we're just talking about the fact that we
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  count the Jewish people. How do you count them?
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  You count them with corns. Let's analyze it for a bit and
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  then when we go on to other points in the parish shop by the
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  very same I'm going to show them more Quiti sat rush pennies as
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  you count as you get the number of the Jewish people, the coup
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  de hen in order to give them jobs, which really means in
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  order to just identify each person, but not do each coffin
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  offshore. Each person will give an
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  atonement for themselves in the form as you count LA a sham, but
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  they've called the town the lawyer by am negative of quite a
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  time and the past soup tells us the key element is as you count,
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  you want to avoid a plague. And that's a big issue that they
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  used to have when it came to count that we know that we don't
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  count people, let's say 1-2 each.
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  We don't point to people that count and the reason you don't
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  do so is because of this past soup, because of this concept.
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  And that is that when you count people, there are there's an
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  issue of ionetta is an issue of pinpointing a person that really
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  brings the eye in there on. We have the number you tell, you
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  say, you say person. I have 20 people or 30 people.
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  We have a year. All right, how many
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  grandchildren you have? And people give a set number.
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  We don't like to do that. We try to avoid it.
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  Not that it's a real thing, but the yen of avoiding it somewhat
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  is you want to avoid eyeing it. Also, how do you do so in this
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  scenario? They didn't count people.
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  They counted coins instead. They didn't say they didn't walk
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  and say oh, there's seven people in this house and not in that
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  house and four in that house. No, and seven coins.
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  Marcus de Sheiko 9 Marcus de Sheiko.
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  And from that you got the number.
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  That was the process. Zayat knew the pasuk says Hashem
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  said these words. Zayat knew this is what you
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  should give. What's this?
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  So here's where she says the interesting thing about this
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  county and that is that Moshe have been had a hard time in a
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  few aspects during the season during the building of Michigan.
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  During this process Moshe had a hard time.
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  One of the famous ones is he had a hard time building the menorah
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  and God told him how the menorah looks and God told him it's all
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  saying the fire menorah came out.
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  When it came to the Mahaseta Sheikh on the half a coin, Moshe
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  had a hard time, had a hard time understanding it seems what the
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  half a coin meant and God showed him a half of coin in fire.
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  Moshe saw it and he knew where she meant.
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  How much is the Sheikh? So the obvious question is what
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  in a hard time understanding what a half a shakel is.
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  Whatever the currency is, cut it in half.
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  Whatever the shakel is, cut it in half.
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  It's complicated. It's not too complicated.
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  Half a dollar, you wouldn't know what it is.
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  I told you today you need half a dollar.
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  You figure it out. What was the complication that
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  Moshe had that the bazookas say? The words is there.
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  This is the one God showed him ever.
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  She said the worst, Hashem showed him a coin of fire and
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  Hashem said, 'cause they it no give like this.
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  What does this mean? And a better question is how
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  does counting coins avoid aina? Right?
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  Say how counting the person? We all know what the coin means.
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  The coin means the person. It's still an aina.
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  So here's the thing. Both these points lead to the
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  same thing again, why and how the Moshe if anyone have a hard
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  time with knowing Maharsita Shekhar is obvious and how does
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  counting coins over people avoid China?
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  So the theme for both of the same more shared a hard time.
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  This is the Rabbi say more shared a hard time believing
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  accounting money is a good representation of Amisaya.
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  Money is not a good thing in his mind.
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  So money, money causes a lot of problems, a lot of issues.
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  So in his mind he's thinking to himself, how can you tell me
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  that money will be a proper representation on his sales?
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  So God showed him a coin of fire has address a problem.
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  Is fire a good thing or a bad thing?
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  Can be both. Well, it can be very
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  destructive. It can be very productive.
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  Are weapons a good thing or a bad thing?
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  Well, we're seeing right now, look at the two sides.
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  They can be a very destructive thing and they could be a very
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  in a certain sense helpful thing.
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  Fire is even clearer than that. Fire can fuel, fire can build,
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  fire can everything. Fire is used in so many good
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  ways, correct? And fire is also used in so many
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  bad ways used or happened so many bad ways.
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  So God was showing what should have been and this will be the
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  key to understanding the Mahasita Shekhar.
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  And then the key to understanding how it removes is
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  saying the Moshe you think you are, you're thinking to
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  yourself, how could the coin be the proper representation of the
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  Jewish people? Money in my mind isn't a good
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  thing. This is the first real
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  collection, right? This is part of that process and
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  a sham is telling what shit you're right, but that
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  perspective is also wrong. The same way fire can be seen
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  can be utilized extremely negative way, but also in a very
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  positive way. So too, money can be utilized
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  correctly, correct Your your point is right in a very
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  negative way. We know what money can do in a
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  destructive way, but it also can be utilized in a positive way.
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  And that is the idea that masks to shake a representation of
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  obvious hill by saying when they give money, they do it the right
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  way. It can be utilized in a positive
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  way. What is the right way?
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  So the right way #1 is they're giving 1/2 for corn, which means
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  they're recognizing I'm not giving it to make myself seem
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  like a big deal. I'm not giving it from my
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  bravado, I'm giving 1/2 a coin. It's a small amount.
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  I'm saying to myself I'm trying to be a part of AMI sail.
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  They go a little deeper, half as 1/2 of a whole and half says I
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  need someone to join. How do you avoid Ayenera?
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  How does a person avoid Ayenera? Not trying to stand out with his
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  own limelight, instead trying to be a member of the Jewish
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  people. So ashamed is saying money can
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  be used in a positive light in this fashion.
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  Money can be used and avoid I and I and you recognize that
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  you're 1/2 of a whole. You recognize you're a part of
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  the Jewish people and that was a theme that was tapping into when
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  he's being told to collect. Yes, you are right.
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  This can be a destructive negative thing.
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  I don't see others a positive but no, you're in a certain
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  sense you're wrong. If you use it the right way and
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  you apply it the right way, it can very much be a positive.
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  It could be half of a whole. It could be there to avoid Ineta
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  and in fact they can be there to build if you recognize this
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  money in the right way. This is the process of Part 1.
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  Like you want to close the door. OK, this is Part 1.
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  Part 2 of the past. I want to be.
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  That's what the past suit says. How she lay out of bed to all
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  that does not give more by doll layout.
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  Meeting the poor does not give less.
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  Everyone needs to be the same. We are all part of the bigger
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  group and the way it works like this, eye in an eye is very
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  strong when people are pinpointed and noticed.
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  Eye in an eye is not strong at all when they're a part of a
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  group and they're looking at an overall group.
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  So Hashem is saying this money that you are giving, people will
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  be giving. If it's given in the right
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  fashion as part of a group half of a whole stepping into the
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  bigger army sale, then the money will not only not be
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  destructive, it'll avoid eyeing it up because you're not going
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  to pinpoint any person. You're not even going to
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  pinpoint any amount. It'll instead completely protect
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  us. The opposite protect us because
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  I'm stepping into a unit a whole, a bigger group and it's
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  like fire can be a destructive and productive source.
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  So too, this money can be very destructive.
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  If it was a lot of money and it was very noticeable and if you
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  were pinpointing the person and it was making you see the person
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  even more destructive, half part of a whole part of it's
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  seaboard, productive, protective and Shamira, that's where
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  Shabbat time we should have in. That's Part 1.
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  The second part of the Khashoggi Tempori is let's look at part of
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  the Hetenego. OK, this is different analysis.
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  Hetenego's also used some money and it's obviously a very
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  destructive one. And what is this Azu says that
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  the people of so much Aveno wasn't coming down and therefore
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  they got started. What was the process that led to
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  the Hetego Schulbacher? The process was that there were
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  an arm, we say where she tells us or it tells us it was the end
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  of love. End of love.
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  Where the people which Mushiya Beno accepted into Misael, these
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  are non Jews, these are converts, Egyptians.
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  Moshe accepted it to Jewish people.
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  And when they saw and witnessed and witness Moshe not coming
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  down because he had gone up to Shamani for 40 days and the
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  witness he wasn't coming down, they said, they said to our own
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  kuma salon Elohim, let's make a guard for ourselves who will
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  lead us because Moshe man who took us out of the time, we
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  don't know what happened to him. And now you see again gold and
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  silver money, Miyomer Allahim, our own, our own told him
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  parakku nismeza, take off, remove your earrings, your gold
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  earring, the sheb oznini shahim, which on the ears on your wife's
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  been a ham, but a ham a veer ally and bring it to me.
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  My eats parakku called Ahmet is vizazahab, A sheba was in a ham
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  and the people ripped off the ears.
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  Basuk said the gold it says from the old ears.
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  They didn't go to their wives. They took it from themselves.
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  They have you allowed on and they brought out on and they
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  took it and they put it into the fire and out came a golden calf.
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  And they said they announced this is your guard.
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  And they created one of the created the biggest SeaWorld
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  sins we ever have, which is the scene of Hetayo.
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  How could it be people fell to such depths?
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  We discussed the other day, how could it be people fell in this
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  way? You know, a lot of excuses that
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  we give. Of course, it's still the great,
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  great sin. It's the greatest sin of all
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  time. In fact, we are still Wheeling
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  from that sin. But the key in that sin, in
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  fact, Mashena been later on when he tries to protect us, he
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  imagines a place he says we traveled through a place called
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  De Zahav, was de Zahav. He says, well, we were in the
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  desert. He went to a place called Enough
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  Gold de Zahav, Rashid tells us. There was no such place.
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  Ecole referred to a place in the desert called Dizaar.
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  There was no such place. So how could you refer to it as
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  Dizaarf? No place, Rashid tells us.
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  And Moshe was saying as a hint, as a protection, as an excuse.
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  Do you know how had the eagle happen?
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  These are we had too much gold. Army cell came out of its sign.
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  Extremely, extremely, extremely wealthy.
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  Out of nowhere. Their wealth came out of
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  nowhere. They went from slaves, from
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  paupers to the wealthiest people around.
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  They had tons and tons of gems and and jewels and gold and
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  silver, tons from the loot of Egypt and the loot bizatayam.
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  And they went from rag to riches overnight.
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  And they had this gold and they used this gold and the first
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  opportunity that they had to use this gold really was Certego.
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  These are too much gold. So we have an Oprah Sha, a
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  mention of Mahaz de Shekhar using money the right way, in a
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  humble way, in a low key way, and only a half saying to
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  myself, a part of it, Cebu or piling on the money because they
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  have an idea, they want to get involved, they're inspired in a
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  bad way. And they pile on that Sahaba
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  should have been who said as a protection, as a defense of our
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  people, it's not their fault they had too much money.
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  In fact, he came out, brings an example.
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  He came out and give us a Marshall.
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  He might know this Marshall. He came out and says, imagine if
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  a child, imagine if a child was walking in the street, parents
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  gave him a necklace. Bangling on that necklace was
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  diamonds and gold and silver. One of these things that guy
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  mentions and he's placed in front of the very inappropriate
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  place with all the money he needs.
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  And he's a young 16 year old boy, 18 year old boy.
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  He has a necklace dangling with great, you know, unbelievable
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  value. And he's given this money.
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  He's standing in front of a very inappropriate place.
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  Do you blame him for what happens next?
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  Says Digimoto. Is that his fault or is his
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  parents fault? This is the guy's example.
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  I'm on his ship. We.
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  Had a lot of stores in the desert, huh?
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  Because we had a lot of stores in the.
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  Desert we didn't from what Sheriff and his point is the
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  first chance we had at such an example which they had a
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  weakness because Moshe didn't come down.
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  They were loaded with gold and they were faced with this
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  opportunity. They ended up with the golden
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  canvas kind of not therefore to a degree because what do you
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  expect had all that money. So here you see money in certain
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  sense he's trying to defend on his sale that putting the onus
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  in a certain degree on Hashem. Moshe did this a few times and
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  that was Moshe's kind of gift. He was able to do that.
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  But you see over here the two sides of money.
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  We started with the fact that money is fire.
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  What does it mean? It's like fire.
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  If a person uses it the right way, it can atone for you, it
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  can protect you, It could be there for you.
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  You're part of it's Cebu, you help out of Cebu.
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  If you use the wrong way, then it's the gold khaza Shalom of
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  the golden camp. How do we atone?
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  Forget the ego. Let's find another spot in our
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  padasha, This man up as Shah, out of order.
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  But this is here as that Moshe appoints Betalil.
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  Betalil is going to be the man to do what?
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  To build the Mishkan and build the Killian.
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  How are those Killian built? Gold value money, great
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  donations, endless excited donations of the duel of people
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  giving so much that they had all the wealth that they had has
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  affected the altar Shah. That's an atonement, a final
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  atonement, because building the Mishkan with that gold and that
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  and all those jewels, all that value was saying to Hashem, you
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  gave us a lot of money. We messed up with that money
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  where we had an opportunity to do so.
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  We built the golden cache. But no, no, no, God continue to
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  bless us. Please continue to bless us
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  because we will make up for that and we will build the Mishkan
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  with that same excitement and the same donations on the same
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  loads that we're going to use in the gold.
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  The homeless guy was built with gold.
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  Where's that gold? The gold is in its own with the
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  Heta Eggle. And this is the picture that
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  we're building. Follow me.
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  This is the picture that we're building.
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  So now, but shall you start off with the fact that you have
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  Marcus de Shekel, how money should be used in a humble low
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  key part of it's a good way. Then you continue with the fact
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  that we skip to which is the Heta Eggle, which is a scenario
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  where the wealth that we were given created many problems, the
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  greatest problem we ever had. And then we go back to the fact
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  with the atonement of the heterigyo, which is also
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  utilizing that wealth. And this is not Mahazi, this is
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  not low key. This is very dedicated, but it's
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  done with the right mindset and it builds the most beautiful
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  place we ever have a place in the Shaheena.
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  All this is not Basham. I remember once watching a
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  documentary. The documentary was about the
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  power of the dollar bill. If you would analyze this in
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  your mind, it would both drive you crazy and it would make you
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  very well, extremely well. Stop and think about how
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  effective the money is in this world.
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  Think of it. Think of the fact that people
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  wake up and go to work every day because of money.
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  Think of the fact that certain people are giving cover because
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  of money, some people without power because of money.
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  Smallest potatoes go bigger and start thinking about how one
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  country does something because of money.
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  And then think about the fact that wars are happening all over
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  the place and so much of it is money.
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  Then think about the fact that so much so many areas of Torah,
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  there's a delicate point, so many areas of Torah are
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  developed because of money. And I have this one final
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  example and I thought about this one as soon as documentary.
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  The final example was is that 1930s United States of America,
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  all, many rabbis from Europe came to this country to collect
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  because they were in dire straits over there.
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  All the classic rabbis from Europe that they're talking
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  about in 1930s, right before World War 2, they came to
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  America to collect, they came to New York City.
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  Some rabbis were given the key to the city like they're all
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  major processions and they stayed there for a year.
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  Many of them, some went back, some never went back.
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  Now, the importance of that is, is that these rabbis came to a
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  New York City that was desolate of that concept, that did not
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  have any sort of. And these rabbis, many of them
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  were given great honor and respect.
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  And a lot of the classic stories of people recognizing what a
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  Gadol is, what a great man is, what it all looks like, came
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  from the visits of those rabbis. And you can go to later times as
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  well in our country today. That rather black mean came to
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  Brooklyn and got stuck here during World War One and became
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  the first Chief rabbi of Brooklyn.
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  Here you go. That's one example.
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  Even to this very day, a lot of connections that we witness.
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  The whole idea of Rabbi is coming to deal with the
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  Brooklyn. All these things be very honest.
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  They're mainly coming because they need money for the
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  organizations. That's why they're coming.
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  But because of that, so many people have a relationship with
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  this guy dull and that guy dull. I've got better hearted.
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  I'm going to be short. And I've gotten so much in their
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  lives right because of these rabbits coming.
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  And a lot of it is the power of a dollar bill, simple as that.
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  The power of a dollar bill used in the right way.
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  So what you see from Al Pradasha, according to this
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  whole thing, is that money can be an unbelievably destructive
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  force, but the money can also be an unbelievably productive
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  force, depends how you use it. Machazzitisheko has one way of
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  using it low key and the building of the Mishkan, it's
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  even a louder way of using it and the reason it comes out of
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  mind. And this is 3 things you see in
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  out by a shot. And it's also something I was
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  very involved in. We were all very involved in
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  this week because you saw the giving out of money when it came
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  to putting and that was by far the busiest thing.
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  I was busy with the whole day and I cannot believe our father
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  gave me that part of the job. I didn't realize what it was.
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  It's an unbelievable job. That's a great task and we were
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  busy. We gave you some money.
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  Now money. And it was so much money.
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  And then I was also involved with because Robert Joey does
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  his things through the shore and it's endless.
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  And it's another thing I'm talking about hundreds and I
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  can't tell you the numbers. Loads of money was given out.
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  But the reality is at the same time loads of families were
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  lifted up and loads of us were involved in helping other
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  people, making people happy. By far the most fulfilling
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  element of the day, the most fulfilling element of the season
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  is the idea that we are able to be vehicles of delivering or
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  lifting people up. That ability is incredible.
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  It's so impressive and it is literally a definition of Alpha
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  Shah. Money can be a destructive force
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  all day long. We talk about all so and so is
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  doing this because they're wealthy and they're making that
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  wedding and they're building that house and deal.
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  Look what happened to the community.
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  We do this all the time. At the same time, stop and look
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  at all the building that you are doing, that we're trying to do,
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  all of us are doing because of the charity and the giving that
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  we do with our building worlds based on that charity.
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  So money can be a destructive force and money can be a
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  protective force and it's displayed and now put our Shah
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  in full view. Stop at this.