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Rabbi Moshe Haber Path of the Just: The Weight of Intention: The Three Steps of Moral Balance 1.27.26 · Rabbi Moshe Haber - Daily Mussar/Weekly Perasha

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  4/16 4:17 and the idea really 417 right now is that it is
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  telling us maybe the most important thing when it comes to
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  Hassid is someone we discussed the length someone is very
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  dedicated to a certain area. People can be very dedicated to
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  loving another Jew doing, if I said very loving Hashem growing
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  as a person in different areas. Now he tells you the hardest
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  thing is balanced. We discussed yesterday in an
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  example and what does balance mean?
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  Other thing is to know when you're making a decision, you're
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  a good guy trying to do good things.
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  When you're making a decision, coming from a good place, when
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  it's possibly current from even a bad place.
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  He says the insider has the ability to make something good
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  look bad and something not good. Look at you the opposite.
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  I mean, there's so many examples you can think of.
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  It's simple ones always come to my mind is always debate when
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  I'm leaving, learning, going home.
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  So is doing is it the right thing to do or is it just I'm in
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  the mood to take a break? So I'm convinced to myself that
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  it's mitzvah to be around. You have all these examples of
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  people have and you can take the own scenarios.
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  You're staying longer at work. You want to you know, you're a
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  little more productive to do more and you're debating is this
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  am I doing the right thing or am I doing something?
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  They just I just not in the mood to go home right now.
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  I don't want to get involved. It's always hard to debate this
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  debate and his balance, and there are 1,000,000 stronger
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  examples. This balance is literally,
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  According to him, one of the hardest things to figure out is
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  when you are doing something with the right motive or the
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  wrong motive. And we all have a blend of
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  combinations and motives involved, and therefore it's
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  very hard to find. All right, let's do it together.
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  Let's start from the word. We'll start from 417 now on
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  second line on top of 417. If you're lacking a certain
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  factor and making a decision, which means you're lacking
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  either trying to do it for Hashem's sake, for the right
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  sake, you're lacking the proper analysis of another factor,
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  analysis into two sides of a decision, or you're lacking
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  belief in Hashem our decisions. When I reach their proper place,
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  the Carovo Lucas shelled Villipo and a person can easily make a
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  mistake. I know OEM if your intentions
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  are not pure or or in a compensated decision, you didn't
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  analyze the two sides properly or in my hard coset after you
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  did those 2 steps, you did not have probably the horn of shem
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  Cashelo shulo. It's difficult not to make a
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  mistake. Ah in shorts taught me.
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  However, when it comes to a proper decision, if you follow
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  these three steps properly, Timmy Muta Marciva trying to
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  have their own attention. Yuned trying to analyze the two
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  sides of a decision before you make it.
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  Obita horn trying to rely on a shem as you like.
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  Betaf bemet below your nail. Cora you can trust are you going
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  to go down the right path in life and you will not make
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  mistakes. Who are devours Shamrakhanab in
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  the water as Karna says Ragler hasidavi Shimura Hashem protects
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  the feet of those who follow him with abrika mokarammar veloi
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  azov ET has double lamishmar. What's happening over here?
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  What's happening over here, he's telling you is that it's very
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  difficult in life to know when you're doing the right thing or
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  the wrong thing. Good people making good
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  decisions still do not know if it's in the right thing or the
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  wrong thing. 1,000,000 1/2 examples you can come up with.
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  You don't know if you should have given that charity.
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  You don't know if you should have built that home.
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  You don't know if you should take that job.
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  You don't know if you should get involved in that.
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  Like I said, get involved in that fight to try to make peace.
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  You don't know if you should make that comment to push
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  someone along. You don't know anything.
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  And all these scenarios. We feel like we're trying to do
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  these things from the right place.
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  How do you know to make a move right?
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  I gave you my example multiple times.
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  Got it. Bye, bye.
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  It just, it feels to me that you just have to think before you
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  do. You have to get allies a little
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  bit. You can't just make impulsive
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  decisions. This used to be the number one.
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  He throws that in as one of the three components.
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  Other two are Shem related. When it comes to your mind,
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  that's the number one. The first and the third are the
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  1st and it is do it for the sake of our Shem.
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  And the third is try to do it for the sake of our Shem is the
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  first one. We say it's very hard to know.
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  So it's really hard to use that as your one.
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  And the third one is trust in Hashem.
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  Trust in Hashem means that after you do start with sake of
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  Hashem, some degree of that, then you analyze each other's
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  and then you say God, I'm doing this, I hope you help me.
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  Now the problem, right, the problem with the 1st and the 3rd
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  and the 1st for sure, and we said yes today is you never know
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  if you're really having proper trust in Hashem.
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  You just don't know are you talk.
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  We're doing it for the sake of Hashem.
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  Excuse me to know for. Reward you're doing.
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  No, it's just about it's safe. You want to do a good thing,
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  it's just the right thing. Yeah, the issue is, and we said
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  part of the problem with the headset is that he makes things
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  that are not could look up to the right thing.
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  That example of a person wanting to know.
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  I'll give you a class example, Guys sitting in class.
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  He knows his wife needs him home right now.
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  You say the right do is to go home to help your wife right
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  now. That's true, correct?
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  But at the same time, what if just played out?
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  What are the guys in the middle of watching the third quarter of
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  the football of the Super Bowl of the NFC Championship game,
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  right? He knows the right thing to do
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  to go on for his wife, but he also knows that he wouldn't
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  thank you. He knows he wouldn't go on for
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  the wife. So now he has solved the
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  question. Shame him in the other morning.
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  So he has solved the question should he have?
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  Now if he was not willing, you would not be leaving the third
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  quarter of that as he changed the game for the sake of his
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  wife and now put the back on the table.
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  The learning scenario. Should you leave his class for
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  the sake of his wife? Answer is still yes.
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  Yeah, but huh. But he knows that life.
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  Is just always needy, but if it's like.
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  It's always exactly, it's all the round.
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  So the point is the point is nature.
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  The point is, is that this adds to the balance.
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  And now they say, I see the decision making.
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  So now you say, so I know the right thing to do is to go home
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  to, to help her. But I also know that I wouldn't
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  do so if it was some other debate which adds to the balance
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  that a person has to apply and I have to add to the mix.
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  Does it make things more complicated?
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  For sure it does, right? These are the scenarios that we
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  do all the time. Now you need to add yourself.
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  Go back to that first case. Why am I?
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  I had this conversation in my mind yesterday.
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  The schools are closed. Fine.
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  Now let's say let's just say argument's sake, the learning
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  place, the collals are closed. Schools also learning.
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  Let's say collals are closed. They were they just argument.
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  They were. Did you everyone go to the
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  office yesterday? Did people go to the office
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  yesterday? Did you go?
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  Did you go No good. Today we're going to the office.
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  That's the planet and army still holding me out.
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  No, after we're working home, what's the water work?
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  Save me. OK, this is the work.
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  More working. OK, Right.
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  So right. If you all do work, I'm fine.
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  So this is just, it's not the deal.
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  Call everyone on Tuesday. Yeah.
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  But the idea is it's very possible that people would have
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  been more motivated that's going the pre COVID head.
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  People would have figured a way to get the car to go to work,
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  especially if they own the company and they had to get
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  there more than the very possible.
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  There would be certain people to go learn.
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  So what is that? It's not that they don't want to
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  learn. It's in your mind.
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  When it comes to that debate, you have an easier, you know,
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  decision than you do when it comes to calling and motivating
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  yourself to the office. And maybe a good example may not
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  be an example, but the idea is it's very hard to know what's
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  pulling. And that's why even though
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  analyzing the two sides, which is the middle point is the most
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  important point, eventually you have to say I'm trying Emma
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  throw up to Ashim. I can't get it fully right
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  because I don't know where. And This is why I said before,
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  having this balance, one of the most difficult things to have
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  there have been, well, he's going to give you examples.
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  There have been so many people who have said to themselves, I'm
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  going to get involved in, you know, like I said the other day,
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  get involved in that fight. I feel like I have a an ability
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  to make peace. Why are you getting involved?
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  You want to make peace. Is that really why you want to
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  get involved? Or maybe it's because one side's
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  getting nervous. I know from people on the
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  inside, there have been so many, sadly, even divorces that have
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  been somewhat created. And you could say literally
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  divorces or you could say certain fights that have been
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  expanded by the do gooders. The worst people in the world in
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  in these situations are very often the do gooders.
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  Why? Because they see a situation,
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  it's not proper in their lives. They want to change it.
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  So they get involved and they they make things worse and he
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  has himself. How can the guy who wants to do
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  good and make these worse possibly.
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  And because he got involved for the wrong reason, he didn't
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  really know all the factors in front of him, has no both
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  parties. He doesn't know his capabilities
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  or his limitations. And he make sure to say that is
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  because he did not weigh properly all the two sides
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  before he made him move. That's number two.
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  That's number two. And that's the most important
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  one. Now, that doesn't mean don't get
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  a vump. It doesn't even don't have to
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  make a decision, doesn't mean freeze.
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  But it does mean you have to mix and blend Part 1 with Part 2,
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  which is you have to blend the fact that you're trying to do
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  something for the right reason. And then you have to go back and
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  forth analyzing the two sides over and over again until you
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  come up with a healthy decision. Eventually you make a decision.
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  That's it. But you need to be a healthy
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  decision and a healthy decision being honest with yourself.
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  Analyze two sides. Let's see, look how we analyze.
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  We have to realize huque en la dune de Vera hasidut Amar en
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  edition. When it comes to making a
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  decision, trying to be a good guy, trying to do something as a
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  Hasid, don't go with your initial knee jerk reaction.
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  Try to play out in your mind how far the situation's going to go.
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  You're about to make a phone call to attempt peace.
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  You really want to make that phone call all right here a
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  situation is not proper. You want to make peace.
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  You want to call up one side. Let's play it out.
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  If you call up that one side, are you just going to fan the
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  fuels, fan the flames, All right, make things worse.
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  Although you feel like you just want to, you know, get involved
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  with terrible what's happening? Are you actually make things
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  worse or do you see a method? Do you see an arrow right ending
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  the situation? Answer some of the question
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  before you make that phone call. That's the question.
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  The phone call might seem good because the outcome is bad.
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  You need to leave it. Don't get involved.
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  I'm going to give you even a clear good example.
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  A guy wants to develop an institution.
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  What's what's wrong? What's worse with that beautiful
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  thing? Create a new Torah institution,
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  create a new Hessen organization.
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  Beautiful. And he asks himself, what should
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  I do? Is should I not?
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  There are people who need help. I chose you.
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  I need to learn. Of course I should play it out.
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  What about the, you know, the what's called effects?
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  I'm going to happen from this, maybe the other place is going
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  to close, maybe the other person going to be hurt, maybe
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  whatever. Maybe maybe there's someone
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  who's trying to do exactly what you're doing and and now they're
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  going to be stopped. Now do you say to yourself, I
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  don't do anything in life? No, and I'm not trying to at
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  all. The whole dead back on people
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  who are very aggressive. It's a beautiful thing to be
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  aggressive, but you have to be honest with yourself and say, am
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  I making the right decision? Now we have in history a million
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  and a half examples of both ways, 1,000,000 examples of
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  people have made moves and these are good people making good
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  decisions that have been aggressive and they have
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  inadvertently shut people down and they did the right thing.
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  Even so, they did the right thing.
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  I don't know what to judge at all.
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  And then there have been people who have held back a million and
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  a half examples. I know many examples of people
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  who have held back and they never opened their institution.
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  It never happened and then they even never became even favors.
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  It's the reality. It's not like you have a happily
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  ever read a story where they got a job or somewhere else and it
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  became a big deal. The name never became famous.
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  Their promises should never happen and somehow they went,
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  you know, they went to 120 and they felt they made the right
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  decision because they didn't hurt other people.
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  Now you have to ask the question when to do which often time this
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  way advice comes in is we ask real people, right and there's a
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  major detail you have to ask other people.
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  It's a major fact, but it is a real, real example and I'm not
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  going anywhere with this example, especially because
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  we're getting courted and it's a real example.
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  I feel like it's all good about eyeing it, like in a sense,
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  sometimes you got to be like a pinhas just got to go ahead and
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  do it, no? What about all the?
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  Even your own business, there's so many times you could say I
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  have competition, I have this, this guy, this guy has this and
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  he starts. You start losing your confidence
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  when you start looking. Sometimes you just have to just
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  do it. I feel I will vehemently feel
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  based on these books and all the the with the scenarios I've
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  witnessed, I can't say experience with young for
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  experience. All the scenarios I've witnessed
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  vehemently feel that there are a very, very fine line and you
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  have to go like this. You have to weave between Ryan
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  and Rome and no simple answer. And I don't even think a simple
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  piece of advice and somebody else can actually help you.
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  You need to have be very honest with yourself.
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  Why am I doing this? Why am I doing this?
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  Do I like what I'm doing? Am I doing it for the right
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  reason? Is it proper what I'm doing over
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  and over and over again? Over analysts is also a negative
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  yes so I'm. Saying, but I'd be very healthy
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  in this area. Trust me.
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  The amount of destruction that has been done by people who
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  thought they were doing good things is probably more probably
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  more destructive. The amount of destruction has
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  been done by people who are doing bad things.
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  Why? Because bad things.
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  Everyone knows you stop it. A good thing people say.
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  A beautiful thing. My blue.
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  Can every dangerous. Lie right, like yeah, you have
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  to be careful. It is this is like.
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  You know, it's the opposite because if you don't, because
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  this sounds like you really stopping from people from
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  potentially doing good. And if that's like everything
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  else it gets, that's catchy, of course, which means that no
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  one's going to start, no one's going to do good anymore.
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  You have the way this is the back and forth.
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  You have the way back in the odds.
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  It's it's very difficult. It is difficult this I've had
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  this you have a businessman you understand somebody right take
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  those jail be good data. No, because if you get about
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  business, I'm talking about like a hair Saber organization.
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  You know, there's artists, there's an organization that's
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  not doing justice for the community.
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  They're not doing what they're supposed to do, but they're
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  there and they're serving that they're serving.
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  That means that they're doing it for 30 years.
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  God bless them. Right now, someone else comes
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  along aggressive because he sees that there's a major need for
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  the community. Yeah.
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  Is he not supposed to? No.
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  So you're asking to help? He has time to amount to people,
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  but he might be hurting these two people.
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  Good. That's very good.
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  I. Personally, I think he should
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  hurt these. Two people, well, that's a fair
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  balance, but that's a big debate.
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  Yeah, I very much agree that there's been a million and 1/2
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  times that people have been asked the question and they ask
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  great rabbits. Rabbits say go for it, do it
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  anyway and not surfacing the convenience properly, do it.
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  And they did it. That's the rule.
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  They're very successful. All great.
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  No guilt and in fact more but aha, beautiful thing.
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  But there have been many scenarios where they told not to
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  do and just stop and maybe their service wasn't enough.
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  Again, let's play it out. Are they really adding a new
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  service? Are they making anything more
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  productive? Is there a way around this?
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  All these things are factors and I'm not in the predicament so I
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  can only judge. But you're right in the world of
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  business that David, to example in the world of business,
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  because once once we have open trade and everything else and
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  competition is normal, go for it.
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  Go add it and in fact we'll power to the strength of of a
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  person pushing that's how business works.
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  And if we add a million shoes or a million there's a million that
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  it would be the same way just go for it.
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  But if you can see trying that person down, but that person
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  that's. For this community, we're a
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  business community and that's what the.
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  Imposition are trying. Just go ahead, we're going to do
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  it and then everything works out instead of over analyzing and
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  say oh we have one shoe, we have this or do you need another one?
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  We have that business mind of let's do it.
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  Let's. Go to the think.
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  Let's say all I have to do. Let me give you an example.
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  Of the opposite actor thinking we have to say if you think
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  you're the right decision and like the 1-2 and three you
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  believe it is. That's what I'm saying.
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  Not every decision you're gonna make is gonna be.
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  Let me give you an example the office.
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  Fairly, you're not making all the right decisions.
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  Correct. All right, let me give you
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  examples the other way. This is holding back when OK,
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  guy wants to go. I'll give you a real example.
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  Guy wants to go to a wedding. I've said this example before
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  wedding and he's not used to such a corded dress.
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  He's not at all used to such a world.
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  He's close to the groom. He wants to go and say I'm
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  broke. It's 11:00 and night at that
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  wedding. It's way beyond the time he
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  should be there. Now.
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  He has a balance as a concede. He's not a witness.
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  Such lack of salute in his number of years.
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  It's a real case. What does he do?
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  Go. We don't go.
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  So we would say they'll be so many of us.
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  And if they go, you got to go, you're gonna be gonna missed.
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  I'll tell you personally, at certain times in my life, I
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  didn't go. I went to a wedding.
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  I knew the groom actually left with the groom and I walked in.
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  It was 11:00. It was way beyond my, my I was
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  new to this business that had all used such a world.
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  I walked in. I walked a little prison.
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  I told a friend, I said, they said, and we can't get him out
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  now. So OK, tell him I can't.
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  And I and I left and I actually left and I wasn't sure that
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  drives me wrong. And many times the eyes on the
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  opposite. I've gone in, many, many times
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  I've gone in. And what do you do in that
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  situation? You need to look at the people
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  who came before you. Would they go?
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  Would you not go? And sometimes they would and
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  sometimes they wouldn't. Or how about if a rabbi is
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  invited to a wedding that's some a destination, one that's not
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  his type, Does he go? Does he not go?
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  All right, these are real questions.
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  And these are questions that require a way.
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  And sometimes the answer is go, and sometimes the answer is
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  don't. And that's a balance you have to
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  figure out. And what is that balance based
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  on your own experience without coming to lead to maybe this kid
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  who I didn't go to, maybe it's can negatively affect them and
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  he has rabble a school so it doesn't show up.
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  It's a bad idea not to go, you know.
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  This this scenario is very different from opening up an
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  organization. But it's.
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  Not big, see base I understand, but it's it's it's a very
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  different situation. So 1 is aggressive and one is
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  passive, not going, not being aggressive.
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  Passive 1 is going forward for forward and destroying and
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  building, assuming another one is holding back and creating
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  destruction and building. And they're both the same in a
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  sense, the same question. How do you make a decision when
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  you're doing something that seems to be a beautiful thing
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  but has certain things that are, you know, effects?
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  That's the question. And that you have the way and
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  eventually you make decisions. Sometimes you're right.
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  Sometimes you rule, you go for it.
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  And if you have one in three, which is you're trying to do the
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  right thing. And if you make that decision
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  and it's wrong, it'll be made right.
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  That's how far it goes if a person opens the institution,
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  which is wrong. But he weighed the odds.
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  He went back and forth and he said, there's no way I can let
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  these kids and these families just crumble anymore.
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  Just not proper. I can't leave this and the rabbi
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  has told me to do it, so I'm going to do it.
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  I'm going to close my nose. I'm going to do it, and I feel
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  terrible about certain factors. I'm going to do it anyway.
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  He does that. He'll succeed if he goes through
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  that process and he's honest with himself and he fits that
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  mold and his life is consistent with that for all those things,
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  he will succeed according to his mindset.
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  And the opposite, if he says to himself, there's no way I can
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  close those people out, there's so many people involved, how can
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  I hurt their jogs, yada yada. And he holds back, I'll succeed.
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  2 It requires a great amount of balance.
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  The reason I'm pushing this point, Morris, is because it's
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  real. This is where real people are
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  made. It's not as simple as we think,
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  which is go for it or hold back. Because you know what?
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  A lot of people use this MSCAL. They try to use this weight as
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  excuses as to why they don't do anything.
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  It's true too. A lot of people about to take a
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  job. I know some people that should
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  get a job and they're unemployed, they don't take that
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  job because of such a balance like this, but they're not being
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  balanced. They're being sketch.
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  What are they doing? They're trying to make their
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  own. They're they're lazy and they're
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  enjoying the fact that they're collecting unemployment and they
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  don't really want to get that kind of job, etcetera, etcetera.
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  So they try to weigh this balance and they say it's not
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  right for me, like for my family, too many hours.
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  My wife uses something else. Trust me, your wife wants you to
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  work, right? So that's someone who's catching
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  himself on the balance. So really to you, in order to
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  create this balance, you often times have to bounce off other
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  people who are not yes men. Bounce over the people who are
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  people who have told you no before.
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  You guess it's your person, the greatest gift that God can give
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  you, one of the greatest gifts. It's a person like that.
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  Often times your wife. I've said it personally, my wife
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  got me out of a couple of situations which were would have
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  gone down the wrong word road and it's only because she didn't
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  believe in them at all, right? And I was gung ho going full
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  force and I thought I did my Michelle and I weighed my I.
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  Always dressed the wife. And she looked at me and she
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  said, yeah, I know what you're doing.
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  Why do you care about this stuff?
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  Is it true? Because he's on tape.
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  He just did, you know, a couple weeks on vacation was in a good
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  spot, but the age I love anymore, I was.
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  Looking like, let's say let's someone want to do a charter
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  school in this community and his, yeah, great, thousands of
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  kids will go into public schools and things like that.
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  And he had a positive reason for it.
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  But the rabbits don't want you also losing yeshiva outlook.
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  So it's like. You're a great example.
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  I I wasn't around. I mean, I wasn't involved and I
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  don't know the facts because at all.
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  Well, I don't have to make a decision on that.
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  That's a good example. On the one hand, you're thinking
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  he's out of public school. On the other hand, with tuition
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  being $30,000, very possibly many saw people would say,
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  listen, I'm gonna yeah, I'll walk that tie rope.
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  I'll put my kids in such a school.
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  It's all community anyhow. I'll figure out the learning,
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  maybe I can even get some tada into that school.
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  And here you have it. Perfect world, right?
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  And then the destruction is we know the destruction and the
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  building. If you're saving these kids out
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  of public school and you're saving families from going under
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  because of tuition, great question that requires great
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  soldiers, great people to answer that question.
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  And that's a real example. These are many, many examples
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  like this. And I think my favorite examples
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  are building institutions and getting involved in fights
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  because both those examples, I have people who are do gooders,
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  and some of those do gooders cause massive havoc.
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  And some of those do gooders create worlds.
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  You need to know which one you are and you need to know what's
• 24:33
  going to you involve. If you can figure out the first
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  part of the three steps and you're in a good spot, which
• 24:38
  means if you can be honest with yourself whether you're being
• 24:40
  the SHMA for sham's sake, you're a good spot.
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  The problem is, as you said, the other days, it's very, very
• 24:46
  difficult to know what's LISMA really difficult.
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  And I gave you my example with Israel trip and give you a
• 24:52
  million examples. How do you know what's LISMA?
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  Is it really a follow up? Well, if you open up an
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  organization, institution and nobody knows your name, yeah,
• 25:03
  Transdolla Lisma. But if you open up an
• 25:05
  organization and the name basically might as well be
• 25:07
  called my name, then it's not as Lobdafka, not guaranteed.
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  There's a smile. Maybe it is, maybe it isn't
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  right. If you're getting involved in a
• 25:15
  fight and you're going to be the hero, well, that's your goal.
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  That's you much you expect. That's knowledge, Ma.
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  But, and this is something I try to do, try to apply, it's hard
• 25:23
  to do. And that is whenever you get
• 25:25
  involved in something, if you can hold it that you have, no,
• 25:31
  you don't get much credit for a little while.
• 25:33
  Difficult to do and it's difficult to stomach because
• 25:36
  often times you get involved in something and you don't get
• 25:39
  credit and eventually it frustrates you.
• 25:40
  And when I get the credit, I did all that work, right?
• 25:44
  But if you do an act and you don't get credit for a little
• 25:47
  while, then you can feel that you're being real.
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  Why? Because it's not about the
• 25:51
  credit. It's not about what I get back.
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  These are the idea. These are the concepts.
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  A person's got to weigh this over and over and over again.
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  I do not think it applies as much to business as it does to
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  doing clear good toda. Things like fesse, expanding
• 26:10
  toda, building mitzvot help other people.
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  All the good things in life require a real balance.
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  Real people know this. His book he, he emphasized this
• 26:22
  over and over again. Real people know this and choose
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  this. I believe it's somewhat of a
• 26:27
  simple mind to believe that it's all good out there or it's all
• 26:31
  bad. You need to weigh doubts.
• 26:33
  And I've seen many good people who have done the wrong thing
• 26:35
  and many good people who have Outback have to figure out what
• 26:39
  is the right thing, what's wrong with them.
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  You get involved in these things, don't hold yourself
• 26:42
  back. Just weigh it back and forth.
• 26:45
  That's the point. It's not what?