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Rabbi Moshe Haber Path of the Just: Purity of Intent and the Path to Divine Recognition 12.24.25 · Rabbi Moshe Haber - Daily Mussar/Weekly Perasha

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  Ted mentioned yesterday it should last night drop, and this
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  is a very high level In the middle of telling us is an idea
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  of being a Hasidic, which means being a pious person and doing
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  so with completely the right intention.
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  We've discussed in the past a few times how powerful good
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  intentions are. It's not just a matter of, you
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  know, you can do an action one way or do another way.
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  It's only the mind doesn't really matter in the action.
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  It's a completely different outcome when you do something
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  with the right attention. And there are I personally watch
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  so many different branches of how things play out when they're
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  well intended up against a lack of pity, For example, before we
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  go inside. For example, if someone has a
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  little bit of a ulterior motive, he can move over to do things
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  that he really shouldn't be doing in this overall good idea
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  that he has. He wants to do mitzvah, but he
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  has some other motive to get there.
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  And because then he's willing to cut corners into the area just
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  to get that outcome that will only happen.
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  You have an Ontario motive. If you have clear motives or
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  want to do the right thing, well, the right thing means
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  every step should be right too. So you wouldn't do that, for
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  example. I just argument sake.
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  Person wants, I don't know, he wants to give charity, not an
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  example. He wants his son study Torah, so
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  a cut corners in a certain area to get the right teacher, a
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  right tutor for a son. I should say.
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  I'm just thinking my mind where if your goal is for your son to
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  become a good person, you want to do the right thing in
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  developing a family. Chances are you won't do
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  anything wrong in the process. When your attention is good, the
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  entire process is good. When your attention hesitary
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  motives even at the outcome is intended on being good, you are
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  more risk are more at risk. That's also remodeled.
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  The tear motives can even be well, the different layers of
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  terrible. Some of their motive can be
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  power success, whatever other their motives are not so bad are
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  I want to get reward. I must have that my son is well
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  known as a good kid wasn't not great.
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  And then there are you know, is it fine Alignment pretty much
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  aligns the right motive should be I want to do the right thing.
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  I want to raise my family the right way.
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  I want to develop a good family Again, these are old levels of
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  motives are not terrible, but they the more you have clarity
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  in your motive. Take a child for example.
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  I want to raise a good son. That's it that for some other
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  reason other than the fact I want to make a good son.
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  You'll do things the right way usually.
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  Let's see what the more we're getting you for clear, the more
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  you have clear love of Hashem via homemade Omega VE.
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  And you really have a desire to raise a chef's name up.
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  Oh, Mr. El Al Khoshimatam. And it bothers you when Hashim's
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  name is diminishing anyway, then you will make all your service
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  for this outcome, for this end of mine from my end, from my
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  end. I'm going to make sure at least
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  on my part, that name is elevated.
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  So call Sabin Adam, you come. OK, this is going to bother you
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  when others do not elevate the ship name.
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  Because definitely going to bother you if my actions do not
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  involve elevators name. It's going to bother you when I
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  see Sin. Now let's feel the clear four or
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  two with the vase. Beru bithata biliyah is a hold
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  of amru call. Haha.
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  Miesel any rabbi, any wise man. Sheshbao de vitel amito umit
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  annek Who? A wise man who gets bothered
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  when a chef's honor is diminished.
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  He's playing it out. Ummit Alvey Omitsa look forward
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  to him. And he really cares about the
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  right cavores. OK?
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  He's trying to tell you the long winded way that the right firm
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  mind should be predicated on I care about God's will.
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  I care about God's name. I care about better elevating
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  Hashem's name, and it bothers me when there's diminishing in
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  these areas. I should ignore my example about
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  the child and those things, keep it on track.
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  To the example about Kavocha mine.
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  How much do we think about elevating Hashem's name?
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  How much is on the forefront of our mind?
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  And the main thing in my mind is good, and the main good is
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  Kavocha mine. It's on our mind.
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  It shouldn't be all the time. Could you change your mind?
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  The fact that Hashem's name is great should be all over our own
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  mind. If that's the case, I will be
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  driven to play into that. If you see it's a possibility.
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  What are our class examples of Kibu Kishan Shamim class
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  examples are on people do things, you know and he looks
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  saying he was saying a Jew does an ice mitzvah.
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  Kadu Shah sham when community organizations are doing things
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  right, Kadu Shah sham our people are learning more as a Kisha
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  sham are people I know of Israel all the things they're bringing
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  up all the technology, all the health things you could say it's
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  a condition it does it is what it represents religion right.
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  If you know as if people currently that to the the people
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  of Hashem is a condition there too sure or when they they do
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  something State of Israel does that's I think that the world is
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  you know they send people to Australia or they send people
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  here, send people there. Keep the sashamp.
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  Waiting easily if we said otherwise.
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  Like if anti Zionism is anti-Semitism then there's
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  positive Zionism as. Yeah, yeah, sure, sure.
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  If when the simple eye makes the connection of those two topics,
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  and that's part of the challenge.
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  Sometimes simple eye makes the connection of Zionism to
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  Semitism and they were anti to anti and absolutely whatever the
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  state of is does something that's a positive and the world
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  seizes. That's way.
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  That way it's a condition. There's a lot of fine line over
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  there because sometimes religion is not connected, a little bit
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  more delicate, but when it is connected, absolutely it's a
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  condition. And these are all major things.
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  And when the Jewish people here in America do something that
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  seems to hear a public story of this honesty as the opposite of
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  terrible or a public story of honesty a major condition.
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  Now that's the classic topic. Now you have to ask yourself,
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  how much do I care? How much does it bother me when
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  there's a lock at condition? And what do I care about when
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  there is a condition? Does it make a difference to
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  you? Do you get excited when you hear
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  about Jewish school children who did the right thing in the park?
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  Do you get happy when you hear about the story about a guy who
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  was honest and gave up some money and he's a religious guy.
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  Would he keep on his head? Do you get excited on the world
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  talks about Israel on the right vein and the world actually for
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  like you know, there's always blips on the screen once every
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  year, whatever it is, and the world gets excited about Israel
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  for a moment before they go back to their hate.
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  All right, this up ahead. So do you get do you feel good?
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  If you do, that means you're not just simply a feeling about, you
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  know, national pride, you also feeling good upper Hashem
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  existing more in the world than it's actually a feeling.
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  It hits you. You and I don't think about why
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  we feel this way, but the truth is we feel this way because we
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  like Hashem and we feel the same because we like God's name being
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  elevated. They go a little deeper is
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  actually the purpose of the world.
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  The reason Hashem created the world is for his name to be
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  elevated. And when these things happen,
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  his name is elevated. And we need to ask ourselves,
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  how much do I enjoy? How much do I appreciate those
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  moments? If I do, that means I really do
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  care about condition, and if I don't, means I don't care that
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  much about condition besides shame.
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  He's telling you right here that let's develop the levels over
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  here. We started with intention.
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  When did we condition? Is your intention in general the
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  goal to lead to this spot? Do you care about elevating
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  God's name? Now we started opening.
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  What's the guy? Why?
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  Why do we care? That's cool little keeper,
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  right? Why do?
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  We care about the real reason we care.
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  And by the way, the world, when I close, they close the door.
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  The world is not. I tell you two surprising facts.
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  Fact number one is that the ultimate I'll give you 2
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  scenarios 1 is where a Jew people of Israel state of Israel
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  does something impressive with a help a search for a down plane
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  or whatever it is and I do a nice job over there and I get a
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  Chuck and the world is impressed.
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  Keep you Josh him another example.
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  And we hear of a guy in the community who had the test of
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  being dishonest. And I said he was honest, right?
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  And he didn't get involved in the fight.
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  He made Shalom in the families. Which one is more significant?
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  Which one are more significant? By the way, is Jew in the eyes
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  of Jews more than Jews in the eyes of Glee?
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  So, you know, even though we make a big deal about the
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  stories of how a Jew act in the eyes of Glee, it's important,
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  but it's even more important in the eyes of fellow Jews for
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  multiple reasons. OK, fine.
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  Now what's the end game? What's the goal of all this?
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  Why is it so significant, so important?
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  This should be the number one thing in our minds at all time
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  is how much a Shem's name being elevated.
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  Why? Because you have to break down
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  why God created the world. Kyle was doing fine without us.
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  OK? He doesn't need me to make his
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  name greater. He is what he is.
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  But we go back to this constant dimension.
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  A few times of a tree falls in the forest, no one hears it.
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  What does that mean? That means that a Shem exists in
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  a very way, but Hashem existence was alone.
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  There's nobody there to recognize him.
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  And that means as as much and as great and as powerful as God's
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  existence was, it wasn't in its full glory because there was
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  nobody there to appreciate. That's not been a ham stuff's in
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  it. Whatever ham I've been who
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  recognizes Hashem. Hashem exists more in the world,
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  right? The more Avraham recognize
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  Hashem, the more Hashem exist. That's how wild it goes.
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  That's when he stepped in his sack with his purpose was so
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  when we represent or recognize God, God actually in a certain
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  strange language when he used Hashem exists more, that means
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  of course he exists the fullest success without us, but his
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  purpose or our purpose is to bring out his existence and the
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  more we recognize it, the more Hashem exists.
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  That's how it works. I like recognize better that
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  like. What?
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  So recognizing his, he was the elegance I do.
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  Good. But The funny thing, right?
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  Absolutely. I can't.
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  I can't add or subtract to Hashem's existence.
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  But the rabbi is bringing up P Kabbalah.
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  The more you recognize, the more power God puts into the world,
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  the more the regard is like a mirror.
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  The more you recognize Hashem, the more Hashem is willing to
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  give back to us. So it's I wouldn't say the word
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  you're right that dangerous language to say God exists more
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  or less based on our recognition, but he applies and
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  he right if we more the more we see Hashem in this world, then
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  why he applies his existence to this world.
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  Now I when is a clue Hashem going on, which means when
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  someone properly represents God does something to represent God.
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  He's honest, he has fine language, he makes Shalom,
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  whatever it may be. He is bringing out a
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  representation of godliness. Exactly.
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  And through the representation of godliness, Hashem's power or
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  Hashem's existence is more. Notice that's how it works.
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  If a bunch of Jews act like Glee, act like non Jews, a bunch
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  of Hashem's ambassadors, excuse me, sorry, a bunch of
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  ambassadors don't act like God's people, then you don't see God.
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  But if they do act like God's people, you've seen this is the
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  breakdown and this brings more power to the world, more of
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  Hashem's miracles to the world, like you said, a more godliness
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  to the world. It all comes from that
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  recognition of Hashem's existence.
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  So how powerful is Kedusha shem? Extremely powerful.
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  It's the number one topic a person has to keep on their mind
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  at all times. So even though, as we learned
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  today, we started with the fact they need to have a good
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  intention, and the good intention has to ultimately lead
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  back Kedusha shem, and it seems so lofty, and it seems like
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  what's wrong with my altario motives that you're asking you
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  for? The answer is, there's nothing
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  really wrong with your altario motives, but there is a lack of
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  this attempt to bring Hashem's existence into the world.
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  And the more I think about doing things for the right reason, in
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  other words, the more I think about wanting things to be right
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  for God's sake, the more is a kadusha in the world guy.
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  Is it, you know, this country is it blessed because on the back
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  of a dollar bill that says in God we trust a sham is.
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  Blessed is absolutely, I don't know how to describe it and I'm
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  not one of those people that tries to, you know, make it look
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  in everything, especially in this area is definitely because
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  of this way of thinking is definitely a certain blessing
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  over here in this country because I've tried to have
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  morals. Some are related to Hashem.
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  Now again, there's a plan. There's a mixture of another
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  religion. Another religion is not really
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  our way of thinking at all. They try to take it away.
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  Now it's like sure they want to take it away from, I don't say
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  religion. Yeah, 100%.
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  The more this country had that way of thinking without going
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  over to the dark side. A Christian, right, you know, a
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  Christian way of thinking. The truth is, the problem is
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  with that whole mindset is great for the world, as long as it
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  doesn't hit the dark side. In Europe they tried that too,
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  but they were more Christian than Judeo, and they were there,
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  Sir. So you have to know exactly how
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  to have the right powers. It's not like we're thrilled,
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  but much better off once we're in Galut to live in such a
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  country that's pretty much represents many of our valuable
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  values. It's Greek now.
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  It doesn't bring out a condition.
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  Our actions do and our mind should be about those monitors.
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  That's our mind should be on. That is the ultimate greatest
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  level of covenant you can have. So let's shave down today.
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  We started with the fact that the president should not have
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  ulterior motives, although we do.
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  The less you have ulterior motives, the better and the more
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  real your actions will be. We led to seem like a bridge.
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  We led to what is the main motive, the main motive.
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  Somehow I always just conditioned.
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  Now a lot of times in our families, we don't see that I'm
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  going to do this, raise my children with Kedusha Shah of
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  mine. We'll answer our Kedusha Shah of
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  mine. It's not so simple to get there,
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  but everything, all roles lead to Kedusha.
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  Your actions are clearer at this point.
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  Now why is Kedusha sham so powerful to leave his question?
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  And the answer is because Kedusha sham means you are
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  recognizing Hashem's existence, and the more you recognize it,
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  the more he displays his existence.
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  If 100 people see Hashem, that means Hashem is there about how
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  to be. If 1000 people see Hashem, it
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  means that Hashem is there by 1000 a million people.
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  Same thing when you mentioned that Abraham Veena was the
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  first, but that means that he came out and says Abraham bought
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  the brought the Shaheena down. What do you do to bring the
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  Shaheena down? He saw Hashem existed, he
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  recognized it, so I shunned therefore displayed that
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  existence in more of real way. And that's how it works.
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  Like him, her. I'll start with this.