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Rabbi Moshe Haber Path of the Just: The Pious Mindset: Caring for the Community and God’s Glory 1.06.25 · Rabbi Moshe Haber - Daily Mussar/Weekly Perasha

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  I found out this idea that part of being a Hasid is being a
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  person who cares about bigger things, who cares about Hashem's
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  world, and in this example cares about CR and Caresbury.
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  To say oh Caesar, the land loves it, want you rebuilt, feels bad
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  when it's destroyed. That should be in our mood, in
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  our mind, even if we can't make much of a difference to change
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  it because you want individual. First of all, it's not really
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  correct. The whole world's creative.
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  Each person person has their power.
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  And secondly, it's more about the longing for the cohort.
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  You might. That's the goal.
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  That's just an indication of how spiritual this person is that he
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  cares about such things and bothers him when it's destroyed
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  and it makes him happy when it gets rebuilt.
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  I should be on our might as you raise on the bottom of the air
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  pitch four O 7. Of course you got tab.
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  But then not the biliar. The person is bemoaning
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  agonizing on the lack of kaboor of a shampoo by two Boy, don't
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  you see, unlike a cavoor of the Jewish people, bodies
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  destruction of Beto Mikash nunceta Lameche Schneider
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  Vingesh Penaze eka de cavana behold mitzvah Abu da chetili
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  Luis quedoso Macon. First part of the Hasid in this
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  mindset is someone who cares about elevating God's name.
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  At the same time, second part is being in pain and being bothered
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  when God's name is 9 in full glory of oath, hazard of a
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  Habakkasha Alleluia Kaboda ZE Shia Szemuth.
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  The pain and the distress of lack of honor of Hashem and also
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  lack of Kaboda. This should be in our mind,
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  which means a person should care if the Jewish people's name our
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  people, if our name is elevated in the world again, not for the,
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  you know, silly reasons because so and so invented something and
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  he's a Jew and it is it's nice, but it doesn't really mean that
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  much. I'm talking about a couple of of
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  a Jew couple of the Jewish people for the sake of being AMF
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  Hashem. That just said the Jewish last
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  name is Klein as that effect. If you need to have the cavort
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  of a Jew for the sake of being a Jew.
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  If there's that, that should make us happy.
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  And then the on the flip side, when there's a disgrace of a
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  Jew, and it's partially for the sake of being a Jew, that also
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  should bother us because we feel a certain connection to Kabul
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  Shami. I'm part of Kabul Shami means I
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  want God's name to be elevated, and I therefore want his
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  ambassadors, his people, their name to be elevated because when
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  their name is elevated, it's an elevation of his neck.
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  And the same is true with his home.
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  I want his home to be beautiful. I want his home to be glorified.
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  I want his home to be rebuilt. Because in my mind, as an
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  indication to me, that's the way of feeling Kabocha mine.
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  So our heart should feel. We want our champagne to be
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  built. But something was bothered in
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  Israel. A part of it should be.
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  I feel bad. It's not the way it should be.
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  That's how it should be. I want it to be in its full
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  glory. I want it to have Kabocha mine.
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  That's how it should always be in Amar.
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  All right, and I when you go and you go to the court and you go
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  to these places and you're very excited to be there, which we
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  all are. It's an idea.
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  There's an enyana ripping our clothing.
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  Is it enyana of a belut boso? What is that concept?
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  That concept is yes, it's beautiful.
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  We get to go there. Yes, it's beautiful the state
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  that it's in, but it's way more to go and that should be on our
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  minds. They want to bethematized to be
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  rebuilt 2 to philosophy. Now Amidah are directly related
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  to be rebuilt in this pain and this sense.
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  I see the glory. I want more glory.
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  I want the beauty that she made our minds at all time.
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  We have it to shop out for a reason.
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  We have a mourning for a reason. And we have that sense when we
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  go there, which is both very prideful, but at the same time
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  still in the sense of sadness and mourning.
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  Because I want ultimately it's not something that I want to be
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  redo. I want Cavortia mine.
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  I want the world to be in a place why shaman name is clear
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  it feel the full it's accepted. There's no debates, there's no
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  halfway. That's what I want.
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  That's what he's telling me. The same thing is true.
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  We see cavotes for a Jew represents God's way.
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  That's because you're happy. That's how happy about that Jew
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  who's you know, wherever you keep on in public.
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  It's not that's the part of it. It's not that wearing keep on
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  the part is that he represents God and he's doing a good thing
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  that makes you happy. Now all Ikar Shami, another
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  major in yarn of being a pious person having these thoughts
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  that are outside yourself thinking about a sham in his
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  world. Another in yarn is when you see
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  another you hear about an old friend of US originally wasn't
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  religious. You find out now he show me a
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  Shabbat. All right, you get a feeling
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  inside. What is that feeling?
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  You find you happy? Why are you happy?
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  The old bands from a Shabaab or you have a classmate.
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  He wasn't doing well. Now he he picked the he fixed up
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  his life. You figured things out.
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  You're rid of addiction. He's doing good now.
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  Recovery stage. Why are you so happy for him?
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  What makes you happy for that person?
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  So a big part of it is he's bettering himself.
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  And that is another Hassid mindset.
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  The Hassid mindset is to care about your fellow estate and to
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  be happy that on the right track, that's also a Hasid
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  again, and this is thinking outside of yourself.
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  Earlier we had thinking about Hashem's world, and now we have
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  thinking about other people representing those other
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  individuals, we say as ambassadors of the God world.
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  And now he had this concept, caring about other people on
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  their own, a major concept. Volumnam old the Kalashemi
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  Yeshmi Kavanata Hasidi has another major mindset and intent
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  when it comes to being a Hasid Who tovat Hadoor.
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  You're happy when the generation is doing well.
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  For example, when you see, you know, you hear about these
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  people always say that Torah today be the classic speech.
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  Torah today is so much further than it was years ago.
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  I remember when we just had a classic one love in the show.
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  I remember when you had a few Sukkot.
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  You always hear about this, right?
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  Of course, I remember when there was no even pre.
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  This is just considered a good eye.
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  It's a good eye exactly. I introvert toward development
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  of our people as it is. It's a good eye for others, but
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  in general they have the concept of good eyes.
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  You're happy for others to succeed financially in other
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  areas here as a has seed. It's specifically to the
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  building up and development of your generation for the sake of
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  our for the sake of their own spiritual development.
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  There's another angle, which is, you know, a nice person, the
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  president of character, he wants others to see in other areas,
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  different item here. He wanted to see the development
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  of your community. So you get excited when you
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  think about the fact. And at one point they went to
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  public school and all they learned was was Tammu Torah,
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  right? Major and Young get excited
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  about that. And you think about the fact
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  that many people, we know, it was a different world back then
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  and they had to go to shul and they had to go to work, and now
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  they don't anymore. All these different
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  developments. And you reflect on them and
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  reflect on them. And they should be remembered,
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  by the way, forever. The more we remember them, the
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  more we can see the contrast and the more we can be encouraged by
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  the fact that although the world goes crazy, somehow the world of
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  ours can get more developed and more developed.
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  And there's more Torah and there's more class and more
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  shoes and more rabbis and more this and more that.
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  And it should make us, does it make you happy when you think
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  about this? Of course, that mindset, he's
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  telling us, if you're thinking about that, why do I, why am I
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  so excited? I'm excited because I'm happy
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  for the world, our world to go in the right direction.
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  I recognize the fact that there are certain pitfalls.
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  I'm aware of the fact that it's not like everything gets better
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  in every area. Our tests cake reader how it
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  challenges with money and competition in these different
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  areas. I'm I'm are very strong.
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  We have to work on that, of course.
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  And you know what? The reason I'm bothered by
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  Mcclock as well the same point is because I want to see a
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  beautiful Jewish world. I want to see a beautiful
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  community. I want to have that sense that
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  we're developing. Why do I care?
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  Why don't I just say I'll do my own thing, I'll make sure I'm
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  developing, I'm learning, Maybe I'm I'm teaching Shalom, I'll
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  try to make sure all of my family call a day.
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  Or does it matter to me what's happening in the community at
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  large? It should bother you when it's
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  going wrong and it should make you very happy when it's going
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  right. It should make a difference in
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  my personal life is telling you what's happening around.
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  Why? Because I have a person who's
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  trying to be a jacit, and I care about the overall development of
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  Hashem's world and the way it's being, you know, portrayed.
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  So I care about Hashem's place in this world.
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  Albert and Mcdosh bothers me. Issues in aid sale.
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  If your problems bothers me, right, That should bother me.
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  And I should be happy when it's good.
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  Because I care about God's glory, right?
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  I care about Jewish people doing the wrong thing over the right
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  thing. And then I think about how we
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  are developing. That's the Hasid's mindset to
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  thinking about his friend, his community, where they're holding
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  it. Makes a difference.
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  I have a brother. My brother is the chief rabbi in
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  Sao Paulo Oh, OK. He wrote the he wrote the book,
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  you know, Hotmail F you know, so right there when he came to
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  Brazil 54 years ago to Sao Paulo, they didn't have Tulu la
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  Vim to that's for for the whole people that the books they have
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  hardly. They have sea dream and two
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  Hockley's Hello. They this he says today after 54
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  they have Colleen, they have, you know, so-called on the whole
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  years. He says it's unbelievable
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  whether they they, you know, and all these things.
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  What they still have more than two hobbies I have.
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  Oh yeah. So.
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  Gives you a booking, Rd. founder Denise said there before I go to
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  Israel. The ISA.
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  I lived across the street. It's unbelievable, yes.
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  Somebody used to be hard for us to get a mignon on on a Sunday
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  duty. Diane used to say that usually
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  go point a couple of guys, yeah. Right.
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  We're thinking about this place, thinking about Panama, you think
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  about Brazil, you think about our community in different ways.
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  Development has been unbelievable, and that makes us
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  feel like something's going right.
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  And why does that matter to me? Maybe I should say I was
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  religious. I remain religious.
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  I'm happy. No, a person who cares about the
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  Cocho Maya is thrilled when they see this and what it brings.
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  As a side point, it gets you to be more involved.
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  That makes you more dedicated for the sake of the community
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  when you see the possibilities out here, right?
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  David's mentioned it, Boys coming to learn this morning on
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  a day that's off is an incredible thing.
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  They could easily wake up very late for waking up by 7:40.
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  They could wake up very late. They can do their thing, but
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  they're coming to learn. That's something that you can't
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  really see as it really add up. Wait, is by the way, I still
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  cannot figure this out. If someone can figure out the
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  heart and the inspiration of what gets at the core to make
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  people develop like this, you can find where the core of that
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  inspiration comes from. It's something unbelievable, but
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  there's a spark there that cannot be, you know, compared,
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  cannot just be made-up. There's no AI that could create
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  that. It's unbelievable.
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  It's a natural spark that's just exploiting.
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  So that makes you happy? I'm aware of the fact that
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  there's another site. I'm clearly recognize the fact
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  that there are certain areas that we need to get much further
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  on and maybe even if we're going backward in certain areas.
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  True. But the Kinshaw, the Tornado,
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  the Mcfaul, the she bought, the Coraline with development, the
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  learning, the Rabbas, the Shuls, the amount of learning every
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  layman is doing, it's unbelievable.
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  And that is to you and I something that makes us happy,
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  something that makes this true. He's not.
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  Like in every family I was talking to chugging high and two
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  years ago, no, I didn't nice. It seems like there's somebody
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  religious in every family, even though family is not religious.
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  It's so it's somebody, they have a, they're.
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  Shoveling up the road. I'll bring you the book.
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  I'll put it on your. There you go.
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  Do you see? You'll enjoy.
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  Put us on your table, though, so you'll not Belina there in the
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  afternoon. I got to go there.
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  I'm going to. Have a great.
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  Day. Excellent.
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  That's the idea that this is the mindset.
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  Is it this really it's telling my said, well, you have a cake
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  for. Yeah, but this is the idea.
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  This is a development of our people and it's something that
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  should make you through and something that should make you
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  happy. And it's concept of a hassle.
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  You think about it, why that makes us happy.
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  The fact that makes us happy is a proof that we care.
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  And that means we are connected to the overall Jewish people and
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  to God's world and we're thrilled to see developed and we
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  are there for that were dedicated to make it happen.
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  All right answer counsel UT vata Dor you care about the the
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  development generation. She ain't there but all you look
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  call her see it's a point for every good person.
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  She is cavend with my salvatova dono kulo to be have intention
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  with actions for the good of all the people.
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  The Zakoto Tom Well again. Alehin huiyana KATU emerud saadi
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  kitov. This is what Souk says, right?
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  What does it say? Tell the righteous person that
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  it is good for they shall eat the fruit of the hadees.
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  She hold our door. Oh hell, let me put it to him.
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  The whole generation eats from the fruit of the righteous
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  people. The righteous people are
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  dedicated to change. Generation.
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  You have a tree. And yeah, it's me Shim again of
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  the royal Kayeds. They carry around, they are the
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  tree of the generation. They are considered there in
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  nourishment as source of baraga with the whole generation.
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  They are dedicated and that they are achieving that generation.
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  He gave gave that example of Brazil and they have a similar
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  example of Panama and a similar example of Saithim and Israel.
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  And a similar example is different places where one or
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  two rabbis came in and they turned the entire thing around.
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  Now we are all aware and even our community, you have a
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  similar example of the originals.
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  We understand it wasn't only the rabbi of his own we had to
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  recognize it was the people alongside.
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  We had a community. But it is those rabbis who just
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  held a steady hand, maybe overturned the tide, who made a
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  couple of moves, and the people with the right mindson flew and
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  they went and they were exceeded with it to unbelievably excel to
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  the unbelievable level. That is the same idea.
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  They became the ETS. They became the tree.
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  They became the source of the development of all the people
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  around them. Let's see some of them.
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  All right? They said, yeah.
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  You realize Shazam? What?
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  It's an ocean. Marko.
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  She you has they. Some is like him.
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  God wants. Every rabbi has this question.
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  The debate is, should they get involved?
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  How much should they get involved?
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  Should they throw themselves all into the community or should
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  they keep time for themselves? All right, I have this debate
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  every day of my life. I challenge this question.
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  I had told you rabbis about this question.
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  It had been biggest debate. All right, Dave, what's the
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  question? Question is, do you need to be
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  over and above dedicated to the well-being of the community or
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  is there part of yourself that needs to remain yourself?
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  Any question when you represent the community, your family life,
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  what happened to your family life?
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  What happened to your personal life?
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  Family still come. No, but that's secondary when
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  you represent the community. So it it it's very odd question.
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  Yeah. Many rabbis have succeeded at
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  this question if you got the right balance.
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  Many have actually failed at this question.
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  Honestly, a very difficult question, both for your personal
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  learning and for your family LED.
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  And what is the question? It's exactly right here.
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  Carly wants the person to be literally developed.
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  I'm completely dedicated to the community.
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  At the same time, he needs my answer.
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  He says he needs to be him and if he over dedicates to a point
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  where he doesn't keep time for himself or his learning or his
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  family, he will not exist. He'll end up being just a shell
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  of himself personally and fully there for the community.
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  Not good as well because 'cause he won't be the person he needs
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  to be for the community, even if he ends up becoming a shell.
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  What happens such a person where they become overly dedicated,
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  You're going to call it that, And they're becoming a little
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  bit shallow insight. They don't have the same Torah
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  source, They don't have the same knowledge, they don't have the
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  same resource of themselves. They don't have the same
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  foundation of family, of their wife that they need behind them.
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  All those things end up peeling away because they become overly
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  dedicated, and the same with any community involvement, rabbi or
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  not. So even though he is TON, they
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  need to be the ETS, which means you need to be the tree.
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  You need to be the source of nourishment, absolutely.
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  For the Thai community, you need to make sure that you're still a
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  tree with roots. You still have to have some
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  water being a source. And if you overly dedicate or
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  overly put yourself out there, you're going to lose your base
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  and your base is weak. You won't have feet on the
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  ground and you'll be a weaker version of that community
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  service. And you have to have both feet
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  on the ground. But out there for the community,
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  a family. But there, if it can be a self,
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  you own Tuara, your own knowledge, own development,
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  where you're changing constantly and you're splitting that out
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  into the community. Whereas if you have no base,
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  then what are you for the community?
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  You end up becoming a shell of yourself and you're giving it a
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  lot outside and nothing is being split into you and developed
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  into you inside. So overall concept for today is
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  you all need to be very interesting and investing into
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  what's going on in the community.
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  And back to my point that I've said before many times, you
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  should have an opinion as to what goes on in the community.
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  When you see movements that are good, you should be excited.
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  When they're bad, you should be bothered because you are not
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  just an individual, you're a member of God's.
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  Can you show Hashem near his world?
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  You care about that part and you therefore care about the
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  well-being. When you see a friend that
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  struggled, it bothers you. She is a friend that succeeded
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  and I came back and makes you exciting.
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  When you see the community movements that are healthy and
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  good, you're excited. When you see things that you
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  have an opinion that are no good, you have a comment.
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  You should have a comment because you have to be a person
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  who is dedicated. Don't you say?
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  I know many people that say we'll close this many people
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  say. Why are you talking?
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  What do you care about what goes on?
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  Well, they do. They do.
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  You do you do. True, but not if it's going to
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  allow that people are doing their own thing.
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  Well, if it's going to allow something that you know you're
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  aware of. Otherwise you should have a
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  stake, you should have an opinion, say something.
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  I may not make a difference, but you still say because you care.
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  That's the idea. No, I'm very proud of.