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Rabbi Moshe Haber Path of the Just-True Piety Versus Hollow Devotion 8.26.25 · Rabbi Moshe Haber - Daily Mussar/Weekly Perasha

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  Let's analyze this concept of Hasidut's new idea on page
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  three. Third, the concept is when you
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  deal Hasidut, you're playing with real stuff and you can have
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  real fakes. People who totally sketch the
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  whole concept of Hasidut and have no concept of his.
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  And I I think it was specifically, but I mean the
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  concept of external stuff and then you can have recalls actual
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  real Hasidim will understand the depth of this idea, which is
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  taking person to a higher place. Let's see it through without the
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  has due to a high Bemet le Bergador.
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  This media specifically requires a lot of clarity.
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  Kimenagim rabim with Rahim rabim, ovrim Ben rabim and
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  rehadam. There are many different customs
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  and ways that pass to many different people.
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  But Shem has did under the title and the author on the title of
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  Hasidut. They're not made like gourmet
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  Hasidut. What they really are are just
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  forms, external forms of Hasidut bleed, Torah bleed, Surah,
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  obliticund. Without the form, the shape, the
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  refinement, they're nothing. They're just external.
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  What they always. What is person acting like he's
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  really dedicated? This comes from a lack of
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  analysis, vascular understanding, ha metique.
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  If someone wants to be a Hasid, they need to reach that level.
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  They need to build themselves up to that point, need to work the
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  connection to Hashem through until the point they become a
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  Hasid. Not just doing a bunch of
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  practices and saying no, I checked my boxes externally,
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  some Hasid. This by the way, is written
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  before the constant existence of Hasidut even existed, as they
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  appointed yesterday Kilo Terhu. What I mean, Hasid is the
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  Hasidim that we have today did not exist during this time.
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  Kilo Terhu velunity I Gul adat Ade Hashem, this person who
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  attempts this external forms of being a Hassid again, what they
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  are is different external signs of making it look like he's
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  super dedicated to Hashem. He's starving himself a week at
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  a time. He's not touching this and not
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  touching that. Not going here, not going there
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  under the guys under the title Hasidut.
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  This is the best every week, right?
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  It's the fast week to week or and think about one of the real
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  classes. He also might have had some of
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  them too. But if a guy does it the wrong
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  way, it's like anything else that's extreme.
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  If you do it extremely the wrong way, they're nuts.
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  If you do it extremely the right way, whatever.
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  If you do things that's extremely dedicated to ash and
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  the right way, very high level of connection.
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  It has to be built up. It has to be built up.
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  I was like, for sure that's a shore.
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  Because again, it has to all come from internal development
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  of connection to Hashem. I'm so as close to our shame.
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  So I'll do this that He wants and I'll do this in a finer way
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  and this in a finer way. It can't be somebody jumping and
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  say I want to copy what other people do.
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  So let me, like I said, do you stall myself for a week without
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  any explanation why? Or do you think the extreme
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  without any understanding what I'm doing?
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  So that's what you're saying. LA has do Valhuba machinist
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  Aminlan, what they are doing. These people, these will call
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  them kind of fake external Hasidim is it doing whatever
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  comes the way the Fiesta Vera Harishina according to the
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  original logics when it comes to their mind, they do it Ville and
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  Miku, but the very they didn't, you know, delve into the depth
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  of these concepts for those Shaku or Tom, nor do they weigh
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  the mosnare Hokuma with the balance of wisdom.
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  These people have. What's the exact word?
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  They they they spoiled, they sullied, right?
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  They dirtied the image of Hasdut Bena, Mona Nashim.
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  It's not stom. It's not simply that they're not
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  doing a good job. They're ruining if everyone else
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  because they're ruining what Hasid looks like.
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  You know, a guy who is supposed to be a good Jew.
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  It turns out not to be a good Jew.
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  OK, fine. He messed up.
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  We have fakes out there. A guy who's trying to be a Hasid
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  and his studies are phony. He's ruining the whole concept
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  because other Jews say, Oh my gosh, if you go extremely what
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  you look like, hey, if you're overly dedicated, look at the
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  outcome, you got to be normal. And then they say you got to be
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  balanced, which is both true. And then they say you have to
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  tame it down, which is also true.
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  But there is such a thing as being dedicated.
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  There is a world out there of being very in.
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  But when the faker does it and he's externally showing this
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  very in and in reality, he's not a good guy because he didn't
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  really work it through. And by the way, not only is this
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  guy not really a chassis, A phony ends up becoming worse
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  than just not a casit. He's not a regular Jew with
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  phony externals. We all know if the guys are fake
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  externally and it's overdoing, it's not it's fake.
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  The reality is he's putting a lot of time and effort into fake
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  stuff and he ends up becoming more external and actually less
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  internal. He's not the same internal as
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  everybody else plus fake externals.
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  He's heavily focused on the fake without any knowledge of what
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  he's doing. We got any depth, we got any
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  build and he ends up becoming not focused on the real.
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  So he's, you know, you have an average Jew and you have this
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  guy. This guy is not average plus or
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  with different coats. He is not even average.
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  He's 0. Because you end up becoming more
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  heavily focused on the externals.
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  And if it's fake, it's coming from the wrong place as we know,
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  and it's coming from the wrong place.
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  It's coming from the copycat mentality or the lack of
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  knowledge mentality. He's hollow.
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  And so that's the concept. Omenama Scalim, Imam, he's going
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  to ruin it for everybody else, right?
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  Omenama Scalim, even intelligent people are going to be bothered
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  by this guy, by Shaykh, because intelligent people are going to
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  think means certain nonsense items, certain silly practices,
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  things that don't make sense. That's what people are going to
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  think. They're going to believe.
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  Again, his time. This is the this is the issue.
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  People are going to believe. What does it mean to be a
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  Hassid? They say a lot about and a lot
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  of and crying a lot a lot of heavy bowels with a lot obese
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  Eupheme. How's that mean?
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  And again his time the problem was bizarre acts of self
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  affliction. Shia meet by him and pretty much
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  almost kill himself. How dumb it that's more crazy
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  things that people do to themselves.
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  They tip into freezing cold and all these different things
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  emergence in ice water right? A polar bear Jew by the Shelly
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  and all those guys that go in the middle of winter.
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  They jump into the corner island over there.
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  So this is the mindset. Sounds crazy with the guy that
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  says I'm doing it in the name of Hashem because Hashem wants me
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  to dip. Hashem wants to be painful.
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  Has to be painful. But he's no, but he thinks that
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  he's showing mystery and nefesh and he's doing that.
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  Good night's hot man, huh? By the way, if he that, he's
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  looking very sweet. I did it one time and I said
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  I'll never again, but I'll try again.
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  But yeah, it's wild, all right. It's wild things like this and
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  all these things are without understanding if there's no one,
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  there are certain concepts over here that are somewhat
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  applicable to people who are new to the fold.
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  And some of them also apply to people who are paroush, you
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  know, the people who we call the pre regime who do carry
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  themselves in a different light and they do pray all day and
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  they do T limo there or they do something.
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  Wherever you come, go to the McVey all the time.
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  He's in Laura, IL at the Hazard Club.
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  This is not the foundation of Hazidut.
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  Foundation of Hazidut is not the extremes.
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  Kim Hatov Shamer Nagim Haila Rather the best of these
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  practice is worthy of being a completion, complimenting a
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  guy's regular hassir. A hassir is great, plus some of
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  these externals who works for him.
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  Ahmedsur Hazdu That's more the misuse of being a hassir.
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  Who devout Amouk. No, it's not shallow, it's
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  extremely deep. La vino on a horn to those who
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  understand finding the exact concept of Hazdut Naomi usad
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  ayusoto trauma ABBA that based on great foundations of wisdom
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  with tikkuna Mara say and perfecting your actions.
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  You could not have a nasty guy that's a Hasid out to lunch.
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  You can't have a guy who's tough and angry in a Hasid.
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  He's a zero. You can't have a person who
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  doesn't really pray properly, but he's a Hasid also gone.
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  You can't. A person doesn't care about
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  learning in a Hasid. It's not there.
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  You can't have a person that eats anywhere he claims to be a
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  Hasid. Also nothing.
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  He can't have a guy who's mean to his wife and he's a Hasid at
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  lunch. In all honesty, you can't have a
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  guy who's dishonest in business and he's a Hasid.
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  Goodbye. All these things are a 0 because
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  the person has to climb the ladder of the basics, then get
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  to a stronger dedication to Hashem, and then he comes in for
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  Hasid. That includes going to make it
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  every day for him. Great on top of everything else,
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  and that includes praying with extreme Kavanaugh and doing what
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  they do Perfect. That's after the 1000 steps,
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  right? You can't be born on the
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  mountain. Doesn't work that way.
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  We constitute. If you do, you become very
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  hollow inside. That's the issue we're going to
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  tell us. That tells us we're not really
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  reciting and it tells us that we are striving for a world where
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  we're very dedicated thinking everything through based on his
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  book over over again and our dedication in connection to our
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  shine become stronger and better.
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  And then we want to do certain things that we would basically
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  not eat in a restaurant, which we know is perfectly kosher, but
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  it's not really up to our standard or we won't go to a
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  certain place which we're allowed to go to.
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  We know it's not going to lead to good things fast things that
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  are, you know, this is an extra thought.
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  These are areas that require it's not even a constant of the
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  Khattarilah. It's not even a constant of
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  being Zahid. It's above that.
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  That's a Hassid. If that includes eventually
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  being extra pure when it comes to purity, great.
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  If that includes praying extra, call a Kavuin.
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  But it doesn't start there. It definitely does not start
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  from extremes. So he's telling you, Kirak
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  Hamim, that's you go in it. Only the wise can really
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  understand. You have to be wise to be a
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  Hassid. Lo Ahmad, Hassid open basuk
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  actually. And Ahmad cannot be hassid.
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  The guy cannot be have no knowledge if he has no knowledge
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  of connection to Hashem. He didn't build, develop and
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  expand. And how in the world can it be
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  overly dedicated that she doesn't know what it means?
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  He hasn't thought about it once in his life.
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  His brain is not there, but he's doing the axe.
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  It's literally by rote at best and reality way worse than that
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  because he's not really carrying and building himself.
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  Instead he's just copycat and doing those acts at best or
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  maybe worse, maybe just trying to fake it right now.
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  Let me explain to you the order. The build of this concept is.
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  Praiseworthy is the one who studies sudah and makes Hashem
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  proud. In other words, we're trying to
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  tell you this, the goal is the goal of Hasidut is do above and
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  beyond, as we'll see as such concept.
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  But the point of above and beyond, because you're getting
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  close and close to Hashem, where Hashem is getting basically more
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  than he asked out of you in a sense more than expected from
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  you, more than the Torah itself requires all that.
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  It's coming out of you more and making God a Shahab to think
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  about this all the time. What are the things that God
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  would say? I don't have to do this.
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  I'm not really required to, to be so generous.
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  Where is it going to aid into the Torah about wasif?
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  I have to know what you're doing.
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  I'll give you an example. You give actions to that car
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  that's not about wasif to get around to doing.
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  It's clearly what's about so safe.
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  How many parents to feel in or extra person.
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  I showed them to feel in there's certain areas about the safe,
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  but doing them it's far with more fervor and more excitement
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  and more love. There's more more.
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  I said I you know, doing things that are more exciting.
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  You can't imagine that Sean loves him.
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  I'll give you. I don't know why this image made
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  me again. It's maybe because I went
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  through it myself, but I'm in like went out for this week to
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  to go out to Brooklyn. And so was he yesterday,
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  yesterday or was yeshiva day, which means the the beginning of
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  this month beginning of boys go back to learn they were going
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  yesterday. So now in a town like that where
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  there's a lot of yeshiva, it's like people to the whole town.
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  You have the following scene all over the place.
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  Some boys are in the streets waiting on the side of the road
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  with their suitcases and their duffel bags ready to go to go.
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  Some boys are already, you know, getting leaving their parents
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  house because they're going to fly to Israel in that scene.
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  And then I saw the following scene.
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  I was in a Judaica store. My wife wanted to go to a
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  closing store. So I went to Judaica store to
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  his that's how he is. And I went in and I'm watching.
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  The line is humongous. Why is the line so long, 'cause
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  our boys getting ready to each Shiva and they're buying their
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  first Gemara for this news Mon. They're buying their first books
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  on the Gemara and they're buying their things.
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  And I'm telling you, and I don't get like this ever, this sight
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  of kids who are 14 years old being super excited.
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  They're like, you know, bubbling over with excitement.
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  Or they're buying their first Gemara to go to each Shiva and
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  thinking about what it's going to look like and thinking about
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  the plan and then they're with their fathers.
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  I think it was one of the most beautiful sights and this is
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  true for Lakewood and we have our community in its own way,
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  but the mindset is and I saw as across I was across the whole
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  town. So I see the boys walking in the
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  street. I see the boys buying the books.
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  Now I'm in learning in a place and I had one kid talking about
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  his schedule and he's so excited about his schedule.
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  I'm like, wow, we leave in 2025. There's chaos all over the
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  world, right, and all measurable things.
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  And you think about the fact that there's excitement for
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  tsunami. It's what, and I don't get
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  emotional pretty much ever. It's not my way.
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  I thought I'd never got emotional.
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  I don't get emotional. It's not nothing that I do.
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  I literally was brought back to to remember in 9th grade when I
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  first went to yeshiva and, and the excitement that was there.
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  I don't know if it was the combination of excitement
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  leaving home or excitement what it's going to be like in a dorm
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  or it's going to be like to having new friends to go to a
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  new town, Madison, NJ, part of a whole new world.
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  My brother was there, whatever it was, but this certain feeling
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  of like, wow, we're doing something more.
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  And that is, I think Hossein Nahad Bakli Hotel.
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  But Hashem loves the idea. People are into something.
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  People are excited about something.
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  And I was just thinking myself, I brought myself back to that
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  time and that's really the me doubt.
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  They're trying to have in every area something that's extra
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  beautiful, something that's extra into it, extra generous
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  inside. I should be excited.
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  And this comes from development. Now these children have a
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  combination of they want to be like their fathers, probably us
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  to the ad that they're trying to do what everyone else does for
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  sure, but it's still excitement. The excitement part is an
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  indication that it's borderline excited or excited to see this.
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  I think it's an unbelievable thing that when we have things
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  that the kids are excited about or when a guy's extra generous,
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  he doesn't have to be all that is A10 or partial has to do as
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  soon as this right not bowing down 1000 times.
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  It's adapting to making God proud.
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  That's not a tale. Well, still peace.