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Rabbi Moshe Haber Iggeret Ramban:Divine Control and Fear of Hashem11.9.25 · Rabbi Moshe Haber - Daily Mussar/Weekly Perasha

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  For following this again, and I'm bound the letter and then
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  he's writing to his son as we know about certain aspects of
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  characters that are necessary and the way he says it, he built
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  up to humility, which he spent a long time last week on the
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  effects of humility and how helpful it is for a person.
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  So he then takes it from humility, from an Hebrew all the
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  way over to, you know, it's from my interfering God.
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  And one doesn't. I mean, you make a simple
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  connection, which means a more humble, I am probably a better
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  person and therefore I'm God fearing.
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  But it's even clearer than that. And that is this how life works.
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  The more a person takes themselves down and doesn't see
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  themselves as the biggest deal, the more they able to recognize
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  that someone else exists. That's just the way it is
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  between you and someone else. And it's absolutely that way
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  between you and Arshan, which means arrogance is not pushing
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  this. It's obviously a little
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  different. Arrogance, the game says is
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  called the heck Laglia shahina. It pushes away the shahina.
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  How does arrogance have mentioned anger?
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  How do those two things push away shahina?
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  Because they are announcements that I am everything and a
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  person is arrogant. They believe that the bill and
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  what's really they're saying that's the reflecting and
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  there's no room for Hashem. So you know it is the opposite
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  allows you out your mic, but not just recognition of Hashem, fear
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  of Hashem. What's fear?
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  Fear means I'm aware totally the power of God.
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  Now let's break it down how this happens.
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  When a person is humble, that means he recognizes as great as
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  I am and as much as I've accomplished, I wasn't so
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  involved in much of that. I had God to help me.
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  You figured it out for me and that's where I'm I'm where I'm
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  today. And every one of us, any one of
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  us can do this in about two minutes.
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  And you figure out where we are, where we could have been.
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  All of us can do this anytime. And I don't care who you are,
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  you can do so now when you do that, you open up the room
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  fashion to exist. I mean, you realize that Hashem
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  is involved. Now you start to realize his
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  greatness because if he really isn't all that control and if
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  he's really the one who placed you where you are, that
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  therefore means that he's the one who's the all powerful and
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  he's the one that we therefore have to be in awe of and in a
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  sense fear of because he's all controlling.
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  If you will look at the entire world, both yourself and other
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  people as a humble existence. You therefore have this space to
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  see how shaman mouths and everything and then you're blown
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  away. Imagine you look at all the
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  accomplishments that the world has, all the accomplishments,
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  all the money people made, all the buildings people built, all
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  the families people made, all the unbelievable world
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  accomplishments and you'd say in one line has sham was behind it
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  all. Everything you say, wow, God's
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  really doing a lot and what wow there really has a lot of
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  control and that therefore gives you a certain sense of what
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  Hashem is this that Amban says humility bleeds to becoming a
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  God fearing person with that breakdown at the past.
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  Then the next step is, and this is a little bit tough on us, and
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  that is that when you look at ourselves and realize where we
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  are, where we came from and where we're heading.
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  And that gives us a very sober moment for ourselves to again
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  develop our character even more. Redo the words he detained.
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  A little bit hot to me. You'll then be able to have on
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  your mind at all times. And to me, that's one of the
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  most necessary thing a person needs now in Bata.
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  Where'd you come from? Lana Tawler, where are you
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  going? We all know what that means.
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  We came from nothing and we're going to nothing.
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  The Shatarima, these are the words you uses that were like a
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  rima Vitaliya bahaya or somewhat like a worm vav and say anything
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  you should have 220 In other words, you recognize that on
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  your own plainly alone in this world, if you were just live out
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  doing it was all you was all me. I wouldn't be much if I was in
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  full control of my existence. I wouldn't be much at all
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  because I didn't make myself physically grow.
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  I didn't make myself spiritually grow.
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  I didn't make myself glowy growing.
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  Well, I wasn't beyond anything. You started to see yourself in
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  that vein. He's telling you.
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  And this, as I said, is a sobering mindset, but it's also
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  an extremely empowering one because when a person starts to
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  really firmly absorb where they came from, where they headed,
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  who they are on their own, they then realize how much Hashem is
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  investing in me. If I recognize that I am not
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  really doing much to make myself exist, I definitely am not.
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  Can't create my health. I can't create my wealth.
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  That's simple. And I realized Hashem did it for
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  me. And look how much He's investing
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  in me. Look how much time and effort it
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  seems He's willing to put it to us.
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  Because the reason humility is a challenge is because we do
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  seamless. You follow me.
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  The reason? Being humble.
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  Why is humble a challenge? Why is taking yourself down to
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  the size difficult? Because we do have the mindset
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  and say, look, look at me, not arrogant.
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  Wait, I'm very accomplished. Every one of us can say we're
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  very accomplished at the same time.
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  And because of that, being humble was a challenge.
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  But if you see it the right way, you then see how much a sham is
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  investing in you. That should be the approach.
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  The approach should not be break yourself down.
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  The approach should be, I realize that on my own, I'm
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  small, which therefore means I'm extremely empowered by somebody
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  else, and that's somebody else's guard.
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  And that is a very, very encouraging mindset.
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  Humility is not a limiting mindset.
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  Humility is actually a mindset to make you so much more
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  powerful and so much more effective, right?
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  The reason people do the wrong thing is because they think
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  they're behind the success. But if you recognize I show
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  behind it, I show it behind my success.
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  He's putting money into me. He's putting time into me.
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  He's putting health into me, he's putting family into me.
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  He obviously wants a lot out of me.
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  He obviously says there's a lot I can accomplish.
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  So humility with the right approach can be very empowering
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  and that's what he's telling you.
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  That's what the person has to have.
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  Then they have yacht Shamaine. Now let's get to the beauty of
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  yacht Shamaine. What is yacht shamaine, right.
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  Yacht Shamaine is a mindset and the sense of fear that some
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  controls it shows. We just explained you how
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  empowering that is, but it's also very much a dose of
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  reality. It's a dose of reality because
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  when you have your out shamayim based on this stuff, you start
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  to realize I think God's in control.
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  He's giving me a lot, but he's also in control.
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  And if he's in control, I got to be careful.
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  If he's in control, I can't really say whatever I want to
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  say. I can't really do whatever I
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  want to do. I can't see what I want to see.
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  I can't just look at anything. I can't just think anything.
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  He's in control. So this humility, allowing space
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  with God to be there, it does a couple of things and empowers
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  you as we just explained, but it also gives you a certain sense
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  of reality and that reality is Hashem is fully here, Hashem is
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  fully in control and therefore I better be careful.
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  Is this a serious statement to say, and this is a difficult, is
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  that a difficult mindset to follow, which is Hashem is in
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  control. We all believe that, and I have
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  to be very careful what I do. Or is that a little bit too much
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  for people to think of on a daily basis?
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  To think that God is in control? And I have to be very careful to
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  have that sense of you, not your mind.
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  It's a little bit overwhelming if you think of it.
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  You know, in a certain way He's in control of everything.
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  And the way he says it will flam me up a little more relaxing.
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  You think so? God's in control, so it's
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  relaxing the control when it comes to looking at the world.
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  You're right. Whatever thing you saw this past
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  week, whenever you watch anything, if you firmly believe
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  a shimmers in control, if you go down that road, that really your
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  minds. It should have been that Tuesday
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  and Wednesday were the exact same this past week.
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  I'll give you a kiss on a row for a second.
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  I was sad to say I've woken with my son yesterday and he says,
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  dad, we got to be careful. Before I even went forward, I
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  said we're doing a bad job. He said, Dad, we got to be
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  careful in the street. It's dark and he won.
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  I say come, you kidding me? He says no, no, no, he's not in
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  power yet. So we don't have to be careful
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  here. I said this whole approach is
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  very off. His whole mindset that we
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  overdid. I told you to assert it myself a
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  few times. We definitely overdid it in that
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  way, that's clear. But the reality is even further
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  than that. Even if on paper he were right,
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  he was right. Our approach being the God is in
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  control, which we use for the good, should be used for that
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  good as well. We should look at this past
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  week, Tuesday and Wednesday, as the exact same thing.
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  Hard to say, hard to imagine. These letters, today's are the
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  exact. Those are the exact same.
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  The before and after the exact same.
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  Well, if you firmly believe God has in control, the answer is
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  yes, really yes. No exaggeration.
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  That should be the feeling. Like I said, even though our
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  emotions, any of us were like after we lost the game or after
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  we lost the championship, that was our emotion.
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  That's a mistaken emotion in reality and reality really it's
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  the same thing because I Sham is in control and I take that
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  control back to you. I asked you, is it a sobering
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  mindset, is an overwhelming mindset, or is it a healthy
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  mindset? Do you feel the idea that I,
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  Sham is in full control? We use it for the gun like you
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  just did, but also therefore judging our every action, every
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  move. Is that something that's
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  overwhelming or something we're able to accept in our minds?
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  It's healthy and confident. It is that you're judging why?
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  Which is the way you live your life.
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  OK, So he says there's two steps they bring over here that
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  naturally people like to push it away.
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  People are inclined for whatever reason, not to really think so
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  much about the fact that Hashem is is all empowering and all
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  powerful and therefore also judging.
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  People don't want to think that way, he says.
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  And the proof is in the fact people got so involved in this
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  world and so upset that things happen as people get so
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  insulted, vice and error and someone else made and all these
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  different things prove, he says that we're not so predicated on
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  God's judgement. Because if we were, that would
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  be by far the overwhelming thoughts now.
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  It would be by the far the number one driving thing you
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  might imagine thinking about for a second.
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  We live 120 years, right? 120 years is a short span of
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  time in comparison to thousands and thousands years of persons
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  soul lives, right? Eternity, if we really firmly
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  believe in yah shamim, and we firmly believe that God is in
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  control and therefore he's judging and he's watching these,
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  then the approach toward all God judgment both now and post 120
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  would be much more dominant in that hey, then what so and so
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  said and what so and so thinks and what so and so feels.
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  For some reason you're not Shamim, which is a very healthy
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  mindset is not really prevalent on many people's minds.
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  For some reason, fear of heaven is some pushed away.
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  We don't know why. We're all OK.
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  We're living in a rented apartment because we're building
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  that big home. We're all fine with that because
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  we're looking to the future. So future is on our mind in many
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  areas. We're all OK with a couple of
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  years in business so we can build up our company OK with
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  that as well. For some reason, this future,
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  the future of you, not your mind, the future of God making
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  decisions in judgement and impacting our life is not on the
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  front of many people's heads for whatever reason.
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  Maybe because people are overwhelmed by you, not Shamaya.
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  It is because people don't like to think about life in such a
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  real way. Or maybe because that's our
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  test. Our test is to have that
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  humility to allow God into our life, to use it as an empowering
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  mindset. Use it as, as you said David, a
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  comforting mindset, and then to use it as a somewhat, I'd say
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  serious mindset. You want to stay healthy.
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  And that is to realize that if Hashem is a fully involved and
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  in control, He's also judging with that and He's also deciding
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  with that, and I therefore need to think of Him at all times.
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  This is the process that humility allows.
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  The more you createspace for Hashem to exist, the more of
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  these mindsets come in. And that's what He's telling
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  you. A person has to think, to have
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  and to develop really that Shamayam comes in this process.
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  I hope this is something that we can all adopt.
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  It's difficult. It's not easy to have really not
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  your mind 'cause we don't visualize it.
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  I shall we visualize our mind in our head.
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  You want to say because it's in distance.
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  OK, fair. So we saying guy?
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  So I'm confused by something. So should we believe that I
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  shouldn't put this guy in office?
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  OK, no reason but because it's good for us.
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  But Hashem always wants the good for us, right?
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  So this guy's going to be good for us.
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  That's. Where recent Malaysia is going
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  to be, it's going to be good. The truth is, yeah, isn't good.
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  And I'll tell you still down there for a second, we had the,
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  we had that 1930s Germany question that people asked other
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  day, right? Let's go down there a simple
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  little bit, a simple approach is he's a yes.
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  We believe everything is done. The Torva call everything that
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  Hashem does, Latava Hashem does for good.
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  And we believe that. And you take it even further.
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  We also believe in, this is very fundamental that everything
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  Hashem does is based and predicated on our lives.
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  That's really our mind. So we don't talk about that so
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  much. We're going to publicize it so
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  much. But the reality is we, it's not
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  that he got voted in despite the Jewish vote.
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  He got voted in because of the Jewish situation.
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  And I'm talking about the Jews that are not really acting as
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  practicing Jews talking about us.
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  It's all about what Hashem wants for our sake and for those like
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  us. That is the mindset that you
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  have. And you see the world go round.
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  You can tell by now that's clearly what Hashem is doing.
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  And you say, but it's a negative.
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  It's very much seems to be a negative thing.
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  There are two approaches. 1 is that if Hashem does everything
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  for the good, yes, somehow it can result in good.
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  I don't know if it can be in a year from now, two years from
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  now. It can be immediate, could be 10
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  years from now. It could shift things so much,
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  but it's already playing guard. It could shift things so much
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  that the bounce back is even stronger.
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  It can make people recognize how crazy these ideas are and
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  therefore people appreciate us more.
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  We don't know exactly how this goes, right?
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  Things have a way of pushing to extremes and then you responding
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  even greater. Would you answer the Holocaust?
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  Familiar hip baby? We'll get there in a second.
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  I think we can understand that. I'll get there in a second.
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  We can't. Then we'll get there in one
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  second. Now at the same time, that's a
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  simple approach that's good. A simple approach that's good
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  that they can be a good there. There's another approach that's
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  good. Is it just playing golf a little
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  bit and that is it can bring us all together.
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  As you mentioned, another one, a very important one is that we
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  have this knack. We're all like this.
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  That's making. That's who you are.
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  We have this knack of liking control.
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  We have a knack of liking the mindset that things are settled.
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  We all like security. Security is a number one thing
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  people want in life. We all want security physically.
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  We all want mental security. When I hit the pillar, my head
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  hits the pillar every night. All I'm thinking about is am I
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  set for the week? Am I set for the month and
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  myself for the year? We want that headed of whatever
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  reason, it keeps being elusive. A Shambo orchestra is the world
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  in a way, and it's always out of our hands.
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  And my humble bird's eye view from what we just witnessed was
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  that this happened last time too, when Trump was in office
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  and you had this certain sense of calm and then came the
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  beautiful thing called COVID and that shook the world, kicked him
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  out of office. And you had opposite extremes.
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  You were in control and then you in 0 control.
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  And now once again, he's doing his thing.
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  And when it comes to the Jewish tariffs is difficult when it
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  comes to Jews in general. We never had a friend like this
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  for Jews overall, definitely a language never had.
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  And then all of a sudden comes someone whose language is the
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  exact opposite and again is talking to the Jews because New
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  York is the most Jewish place around.
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  So you have this conscious again, you have the control.
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  It was almost there. You felt like you had a guy in
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  there in the White House. He was more Jewish talking than
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  most Jews. And then all of a sudden you
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  have someone who's directly on top of us in a sense who talks
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  in his language is very much not our type.
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  So you have again, you lost control.
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  This is really has to be mighty. You've seen God play his hand.
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  How what are you seeing from this?
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  Use his hand. You're seeing the mindset that
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  that control head is not healthy.
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  It's not healthy to always want to have things settled.
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  It's not healthy to always want to have things secure.
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  We want it, we like it, we love it, but it's a very, both in a
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  sense, beautiful but also very upsetting mind because you'll
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  never have complete control in life, pretty much, I can say
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  that. And you could say as well, you
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  won't have complete control of everything at the same time.
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  You may have a handle on your business and on your family or
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  the opposite. You might have a handle on both,
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  but not politics, the government, how life is working,
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  how the community's running. You can't have control of
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  everything. So this is just another reminder
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  that shammies in control. Those are the two goods.
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  Now people ask the Germany question, you know the Germany
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  question, how could it happen? How come?
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  How can we say that this is all good?
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  Every 1930s and 1935 in Germany did you say OK, everything
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  Hashem does really good. Hitler, Rice, Haiti, much more
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  rise to power led to bed, Everything is pretty good.
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  Having a forbid something happened like that today, I
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  don't think everybody would have the same white set.
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  Which is. That everything is great and
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  Hashemism? No, I don't think it would.
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  So the difference when you see outcomes, correct?
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  When you see outcomes, literally outcomes, that's what that is.
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  This is not an outcome. This is just another trigger of
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  our sham's world. A mayor being higher, a mayor
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  being appointed is not considered an outcome, hasn't
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  hit the reality yet. And because it's not an outcome,
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  it's still our sham's overall plan.
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  And you say it's all for the good.
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  A result is an outcome, a result.
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  Like Germany, the process, there were results, a results that are
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  negative happened. That's when you go to the
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  furthest line, which is a line that we say something Sadiq
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  vitovlo, Sadiq, Sadiq veralo, a shavitovlo.
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  The evil has a good and the good have it bad and the righteous
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  have it bad. That is something that's the one
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  area of our entire world that Marshall Beno didn't have an
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  answer for, no great leader to answer for.
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  That's considered the one area that if you knew that nothing
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  would be a question. There will be no need for faith,
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  you understand? If you knew the answer to that
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  question, faith will not be faith.
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  Well should have been asked God. He said to Hashem when the
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  second lokot came down. He said, Hashem, I want to see
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  your face. Our Rabbi say, what did he mean
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  when he said, I want to see your face?
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  Hashem has no face. What are you meant to say was
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  Hashem? I want to know the full picture.
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  I want to know the answer to that question and God said
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  nobody knows the answer to that question and lives.
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  If you know that answer to that question and you better accept
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  the idea that pulling up the Shamaya right now, you cannot
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  know the answer to the question and be on this earth because if
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  you did, it'd be no purpose to being on this earth.
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  You understand That is the one area that way.
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  We still need to have faith. There are so many stories that
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  we see of miracles, and our faith therefore is secure in so
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  many areas. But this issue is the one issue
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  that comes up against our muna. And that issue you can't ask
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  because if you do, if you do ask that question, you're stuck and
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  saying, listen, if I need the answer to that question, then I
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  really cannot be on this world because I don't need faith
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  anymore. Faith is the belief that even
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  though I don't have an answer to one single question, it's the
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  only question I have an answer to.
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  I believe in action. That's why that happens.
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  We don't have answers now, but if that happens, you might say,
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  let me be afraid on this. Nineteen, 2025, Nineteen 30,
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  Germany, 2025. It's a different world.
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  And the big difference is also, which is even though I said I
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  don't know the answer, the Jewish people today, especially
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  in New York, are in a much, much better position both physically,
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  materialistically and spiritually.
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  And they were in Germany in 1930.
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  If you ask anybody. Yeah, 1930.
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  I have friends, many friends. Shaking his head.
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  I have friends, many of them who are from these families.
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  I, I went to Eskenaz World. So again, there's a lot there
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  that's different. The unity is not there.
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  History is not there. The, the rabbi leadership is not
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  there, spirituality is not there.
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  The money is not there. There's a million differences
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  between now and then. And it's only a hindsight
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  perspective that is making that comparison.
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  As any person who's from anyone from that time, it's an insult
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  to even make the comparison. That's how awful it is.
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  It has no relation at all. That's something you need to
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  keep in mind. So OK, to that question, which
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  is what should we think right now?
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  Shouldn't we be upset? Shouldn't it be like I'm sending
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  a bad sign? Few things.
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  I've shown everything for the good and you can easily use this
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  as a positive. Difficult to see, easy to
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  imagine. Number one.
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  Number two, OK #2 what we said. And that could be either a
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  bounce back whenever else. The second point we said, I
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  forgot what it was. But the Third Point we just
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  pointed out, which is, and if you're asking, said, you know,
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  sometimes things do become bad. That is a question that you
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  can't know the answer for. And neither can I Neither can I
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  Yeah. Neither can I have ski.
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  Neither can I bomb. Neither could that be a medal?
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  So it's safe to say we're good without knowing that answer.
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  OK. And if we knew the answer, we'd
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  be in heavy. And finally, we have to
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  recognize practicality. This has nothing to do with real
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  difficult times. It's funny, it's uncomfortable.
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  No longer can you watch New York news and you have a good feeling
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  in your heart. But let's be real, 15 years ago
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  you weren't busy with the mayor either, OK.
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  I remember when de Blasio got got became mayor.
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  I remember it was in the big talk when he became when he
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  started doing a date, it became a big talk.
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  No one was out busy with him, not probably a 4% of the
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  community even voted. No one really was busy with him,
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  huh? Go back to Dinkins.
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  Not blows in. That's a problem, right?
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  That's something else that won't happen again in Manhattan that I
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  don't think that will happen again because of a lot of other
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  things I shouldn't put in place. That'll stop that.
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  That's really trying to play God.
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  Even without them. You say 2 points.
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  Everything can be turned to the good.
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  And if something does go bad, we don't have a answer to that
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  question because that is where our faith lies right there,
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  right? That should be our minds.
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  I think it's a healthy mindset regarding this guy I'm with
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  Circle back. Hashem wants us to play harder,
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  so bad things happen, but worse than get sick trying harder?
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  Absolutely. Again, that goes back to that's
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  the point I'm going to mention in the middle, the control
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  thing. We love control, but control is
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  literally the source of why people don't pray.
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  And lack of control and the unsettling feeling is why people
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  pray as the reality of life. Why do people pray for health?
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  Because they need it. Why do they pray for wealth?
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  Because they need it. Why do they have children?
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  Because they need it. Why do they brave His safety?
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  Because they need it. That is just the way the world
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  works, and that means you develop your connection to God.
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  It's not my prayer per SE. So you say Hashem is being
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  cheap. Hashem is creating problems so
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  that we pray. No, Hashem is trying to create
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  for you a world where you live with Him and not with the
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  president or the mayor or the governor or someone else.
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  You live with Him and with the healthy thing.
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  And the healthy outcome from these results are you move
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  closer to God and you become more connected to Him.
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  I told you this the other day, and I think this firmly in
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  places where people are more connected to Hashem, people are
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  less hysterical. The reaction to this was it's
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  OK, it's fine. The ebbs and flows to life, but
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  the one constant is God. If we get hysterical, it's an
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  indication of a weakness in our muna.
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  That's just a reality of life. And I'm not saying I didn't get
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  feel bad, I did. So I'm not judging anyone.
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  But the hysteria is unhealthy. It's wrong.
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  It was a little bit trumped up. It was a little bit built up.
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  And even if it's extremely frustrating, and even if you
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  could play on your mind the 95 things he's going to do to
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  destroy the world, you still know that that was all lacks of
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  faith. And if you have faith, which we
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  all do, we hand over the control to Hashem.
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  Let's go back to the beginning of the quest and we'll close.
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  The beginning was humility breathes.
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  You got your mind, you got your mind.
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  Breathe an understanding and recognition again, the few
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  things, the comfort of recognizers members in the
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  world, the realization that he's in control and also the sense
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  that he's judging everything. And we ask, is that overwhelming
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  and maybe upsetting? And we answered and you answered
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  for me. It's actually healthy mindset to
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  realize that God is judging and in control all the times.
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  So we said, so why don't we think that way all the time?
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  Because we don't really want to see, not really so OK with
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  seeing judgement at all times. And it's not so much in the
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  constant, but our job is to bring it back.
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  We're mentioning a lot of points and a lot of them include
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  bringing us them into the world by bringing ourselves to my
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  homeless state. What's up with this back about?