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Rabbi Moshe Haber Path of the Just- Truth, Representation, and Stature 5.16.25 · Rabbi Moshe Haber - Daily Mussar/Weekly Perasha

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  Go to two 23222 actually ending off this concept of honesty and
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  and truthfulness and how valuable it is an Isa Hashem.
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  Now a person's going to work with this.
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  Now The thing is he's not getting his own evolved on the
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  layers of truth and that is you can have, like we said, a real
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  lie, a sketch lie, a white lie, all these different things.
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  A person has to realize that if Hashem values emphasize and met
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  and met and made, but that's considered Hashem signet and
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  that's going to see what's most important on is about Hashem and
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  it the Kamala tells us you can't lie and we have the Pasuk MIT
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  Varshika Tiruk person's got to realize just how valuable
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  honesty is and in everything you do when your conversations,
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  whether you're debating you should exaggerate or not, when
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  you're being you should make you know makes it look really a
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  little bit different than it really does look.
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  Whether it's your words or your actions.
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  All that is falsehood. I have to avoid it literally for
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  a 10 foot pole based on the concept of Ted Hawk.
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  All right, we look in the fourth line of your answer. 2222 M can
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  me you should have very shaken Kilo and I'll tell you
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  Sudhosholam and someone speaks falsely.
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  It's like they're pulling away a pillar that holds up the world
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  and the opposite of me. She's a headband.
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  If someone's honest Kilo MI cayer MI Sudhosholam, it's as if
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  he is literally reaffirming the foundation of the world.
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  What this person is doing, negative or positive, is really
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  keeping up or destroying the world.
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  Yesterday we gave a little bit of a deeper explanation, but the
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  simple explanation is that Shem values truth as one of the
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  fundamentals of the world functioning.
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  If we do as our shem wants, the whole thing of the world,
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  literally, you don't think it that way.
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  I speak honestly, big deal. I lie.
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  Big deal. According to this concept,
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  there's nothing that's more destructive to the existence of
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  the world than lies. And if you think about it and
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  you look at people that have fake ideologies, what they're
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  built on are lies. Their religions, their religions
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  #1 they're on different philosophies #2 and all these
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  concepts based on lies. They're literally willing to
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  destroy the world or run the world according to their
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  mindset. Anyone who is extreme and their
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  mindset is doing so because they believe that they're going on a
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  certain truth. It could be communism, it could
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  be Nazis, it could be whatever it may be.
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  It could be different religions, whatever it may be, that is a
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  belief that's very strong and they're fully believing that
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  they're leaning on the truth based on that truth.
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  Of course, the biggest lie based on that truth, they're running
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  the world the same way. They're destroying the world.
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  They're killing people, whatever it may be, and a person.
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  That's a very clear, obvious way.
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  And in a deeper way, if you remove truths from the world,
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  you destroy the pillars of the functioned world.
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  Hashem built the world based on truth, and therefore Hashem is
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  telling you if you hack, actually you lie.
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  You're literally taking away the foundation of the world I robbed
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  as I explained Moto Macomb shyuzerin by MIT Shilohaya mala
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  hamabit chulucham places where they're careful about truth.
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  The mala Hamabit cannot get the other visa estora.
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  Should I be porni shintabi diva ambi shyana Havana tovar because
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  there's a wife of a CERN rabbit a little bit deviated from the
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  truth, even though she had a good intention.
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  Malak hamabit a shigeshua mishamba overtime and malak
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  hamabit. Malak hamabit kick the person
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  out. In other words, a person is
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  making themselves our risk of being hit by the Malak hamabit
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  if they lie and they're protected from the malach Malach
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  ham as the Angel of death. If they're completely perfect
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  narrative truth, fine, as he says, Hey, I don't need to
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  lengthen and speak too much about the topic of truth.
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  In other words, I don't need to tell you all the layers that
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  exist because everyone understands it and you and I
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  both know people who have different levels.
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  They wouldn't lie, all right, but they'll portray something
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  that isn't true. If a person, honestly speaking,
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  if a person even throws a party that they can't afford, that's a
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  degree of lying. If you think about it, they're
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  portraying saying they did not truth.
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  If a guy who drives a car, it really it's not really his car.
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  He can't afford people to believe something that's a
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  degree of falsehood and a person make gets up to him and it's as
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  if he's the biggest of me for hum right, Think about this.
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  It's obvious person gets up. This is like a big time.
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  He has no clue the topic. He just literally hired the
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  whole thing right? That is a person who's saying
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  falsehood. Is it so destructive?
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  Maybe not, but there are areas that can be very destructive.
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  Lying takes away from the foundation of the world and Shem
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  has a real problem with it. That's his time.
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  How we should work on ourselves to be not key like he needs.
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  Cleanse from the concept fully genuine and honest and being
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  perfect near it. Don't take it as I do now.
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  That's a. That's a very.
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  Deep on it went very deep with the wedding and the I think it's
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  the truth. It's not just your words, what
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  you say. Delightful with optics.
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  Everything's about how you proceed.
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  Think about it, what happens the whole idea of creating a
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  perception is create a certain image.
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  What happens when a guy does that?
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  People just look at him and say, why must be doing what my
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  brother said the other day, right?
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  Or people are very impressed by him.
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  All these things, if they're not true, instead we're out of their
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  lives. They're representing it a thing
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  that doesn't use. The guy.
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  Maybe that's how the guy sees himself.
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  His wealth, he doesn't have it. Well, that mean he sees himself.
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  You're right, he sees. Himself, but he doesn't have the
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  money to do it. But think of mine, you know,
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  he's in that circle and he sees himself as you know, they're one
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  of the guys. But that's they can be the level
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  of money. People basically go percentage.
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  They say if you look at that and it wasn't doing actual that must
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  be even Whoa, wow, that's people.
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  Look at that. Look at the houses, look at the
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  look at the weddings, look at these things.
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  That's who it is, and it's fun that the person has it, but it's
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  a lie if the person doesn't have it.
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  Is it that bad? Such a thing I want to say it's
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  so destructive, but speaking falsely is very bad.
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  Let's open up the next topic just a little bit.
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  But it's actually in this expression unfair when it comes
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  to the topic of as well. There are also many layers.
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  Kierbe Sarik ha Adam the al qivot Kono the person needs to
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  be very careful on the respective Russian.
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  Bahomasia says that everything you do need to be very careful.
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  Person has devoid of course some degree of Russian.
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  This topic is also very, very important and huge.
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  All right. The police.
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  The police were. Very happy last night.
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  The police were very happy. They're very happy when we
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  thanked them and they're very impressed.
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  And even though the fire fell, which I thought would cause the
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  police to go crazy, right, I still can't get over at all
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  this. No idea how they let this.
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  It's wild. You've got off the street.
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  All we did was go down to the Police Department, asked them.
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  They gave us the papers to remove the cause.
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  They called willing to tow all the cars that didn't move.
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  Do you know that they called up yesterday at 6:30?
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  They were willing to tow the cars.
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  They blocked the street. I just think he could put on
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  more he found. Exactly, and then that's why he
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  and then they let you do it. The fire even fell.
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  I was safe. I would I was half and they were
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  fine. No problem.
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  They said just, you know, take out, take that out and don't do
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  anymore. That was the behavior was a
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  super. I mean, they never saw anything
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  like. That we.
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  Gave them food, gave them food and they were happy.
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  They were happy. You gave them dinner.
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  Again, they were part of, pronounced them.
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  They were part of it Exactly. But that's a Kedusha Hashem, and
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  a person's going to realize that there are many, many levels to
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  Kedusha Hashem. We said this the other night,
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  Wednesday night. The constant of Kedusha Hashem
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  is that God exists in this world, but you don't see Hashem
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  right there. Sure you don't see Hashem right
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  there. You sent Hashem.
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  Where do you see Hashem through the people, through exactly
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  through those who represent him and that we're claiming that
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  we're claiming to carry the torch of Hashem and we need to
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  represent him. And if you represent Him, that
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  means that you act the way he would act in the situation.
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  How would Hashem act divided in the police last night you would
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  have take them or to give them dinner.
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  He would have showed appreciation when Hashem doesn't
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  rowdy crazy wild saying he's going to turn people off and no,
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  we're going to do so. However sham act in business.
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  He would make sure every single person leaves.
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  He gets a good taste after that conversation after that meeting.
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  There's no yelling and screaming and it's honestly that's all the
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  matter of conducive sham. He wouldn't block driveways.
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  God would never block a driveway right.
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  I don't know if he would have key driveway either.
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  If they you block the driveway, but he wouldn't block the
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  driveway. He wouldn't hunk like I, I
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  cannot believe how people hunk. He would hunk his God represents
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  calm. He represents beauty.
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  That doesn't mean he's a pushover.
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  It just means that he will represents himself in the finest
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  way. And if we claim to be carrying
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  the torch of Hashem, then our job is to be the exact same way.
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  And there are many layers. A person who claim I'm a
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  Khadijah Hashem, everything I do is a shame.
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  But there's something that you do that the public is seeing
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  that really isn't recommended or you're affiliated with the
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  business as an Ivan business, let's say that's not really so
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  kosher. And now the people are singing
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  that. They might know you give a lot
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  of charity. They might know that you have a
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  very nice calm person. But that area of the life,
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  people connect to you. You're involved in businesses
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  that have, I don't know what clubs or different things.
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  And you shouldn't be related to that.
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  I don't know if the everyone knows your name is connected to
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  that or everyone knows your store is open on Shabbat,
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  wherever it may be. It means representing guard.
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  It really means working it through to the fullest extent,
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  and that's hard. The honesty is to be really, it
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  gives you a sham to represent God the full way.
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  You have to be good in every area, at least to the public's
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  eye, right? And you see, you see, it's not
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  only to gleam, it's actually more important to Jews, which
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  means if the locals of the community sees it flawing you
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  and you're claiming to represent Hashem, which you are, it's a
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  lack of Hashem and it's very destructive and it's lacking in
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  the full representation of what God wants.
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  Look at these examples He gives us.
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  What's the opposite of Amara of roses?
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  For me, kigorana isha kuna bisra kulaya vina de mella attar.
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  I take the meat from the butcher and they don't pay right away.
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  Anything wrong with that? It's fun to have a constant upon
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  credit. People see me walking away and
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  they see no money coming across the register and they think
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  something You better think I'm not going to pay back.
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  If I walk four months without talking with Ernie Taura,
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  without wearing the feline, What does that mean?
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  Do you wear the feline earlier the whole day?
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  I'm not waiting to be right now. We talked all day.
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  No, but he was considered something unbelievable, this
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  rabbi, and now it doesn't talk. Tonight he's talking about the
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  Yankees. And this in the people's eyes,
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  being that he's a person who's supposed to be on that level,
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  he's now representing himself, property.
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  And therefore that turns into Hulu Hashem.
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  This, by the way, connects kedusha Hashem to honesty.
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  They caught up with the connective because you expected
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  to be so special. If you don't act that way, you
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  take yourself down a drop. That's the idea.
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  He will say, all those people rabbis, all those people
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  religious. All this was to know better,
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  right? A regular guy, no, keep on, no
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  problem. But a guy whom people expect a
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  lot of is a real requirement. Greater what's he called creates
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  greater responsibility. That's just the way it is.
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  That's the story over here as well.
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  Val and Yan. The idea is shikola Dame la vima
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  de Gator la vimao shuner shal benador every person according
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  to his level and according to what he's considering the eyes
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  of the generation. Sedirshe borne liberti a sotaval
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  built the agora ishkomoto. He has to think and avoid doing
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  something that is not according to his level.
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  Kikirikvirov rashibuto rockmoto according to your level of
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  wisdom and satcher candidate, we sheer beziuto with the Vida with
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  the du quabo. So too has to be careful on the
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  service of Hashem. And how exactly is, in other
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  words, how it represents the guard.
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  If you are on a pedestal, if you consider something special, you
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  need to carry yourself that way. You can't say I'm humble, I
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  don't care, I do my thing, I have a good time, I party with
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  the boys, who cares? Once you are considered
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  something special, it's to be extra careful.
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  I just being a regular member of our community.
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  You also have to be extra special.
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  People see you, they know you're Jewish, they know you're a good
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  person, and then they see this and they cannot, they can't
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  compute, doesn't fit. If you do something that doesn't
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  fit, that's a Kulashim, that's it.
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  So if you have a rabbi that does something that seems like wild,
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  seems like out there for a rabbi, it's not a condition.
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  If you're a regular community member that seems to be by a
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  party that doesn't seem proper. That is the opposite of a
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  condition. That's a Kulashim.
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  If you see people gazing around and he's by the table and let's
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  say his profanity and these different things, he shouldn't
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  be there. He shouldn't be together with
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  associated with people. That is a sham.
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  You might say we all hear profanity.
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  We all connected to people who don't use the wrong language.
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  We all is fine. You're not we all anymore.
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  And this is how life works. You are developing and stepping
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  up a ladder and you go rise and higher and higher in a pedestal
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  and based on that you need to carry yourself accordingly.
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  Never say I don't care, I'm humble.
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  Doesn't make a difference to me. It does.
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  It makes a difference to your name based on what people see
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  you. The way people see you is who
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  you are in this area. And if you don't carry yourself
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  accordingly, it taking down your stature.
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  And you can't say it's only me, it's God who's getting affected
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  and God's getting affected in a very strong way when we don't
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  carry ourselves. Consistency.
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  This is a strength of the concept of condition, of sham
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  and the opposite hoolashim. Every person can be dishonest
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  with themselves and find ways around this and say, no, it's
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  fine, I can have a cigar in public.
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  I don't care if I'm a leader of an organization, I can do this,
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  I can do that. You could see me gazing around
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  all these things, fine, but you got to know you need to be
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  consistently of Thatcher. If you want to be known as that
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  person, great. But if other people look at you
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  at Borland Gadola door and they see this, it's a challenge.
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  Or if people see leaders of the community organizations, then
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  they find out that they're by, I don't know, crazy parties.
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  It's inconsistent. And that's a problem.
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  Based on this concept and no one in mind, I'm saying this, but
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  I'm simply saying one's a person.
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  I told you and my father put more responsibilities on me once
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  he made me involved in the rabbit.
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  He told me you have to carry yourself differently and things
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  like that. And that's the way it works.
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  Everyone has to. You're a grandfather and to
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  carry yourself given differently huh, because your great children
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  see you as something special. You're a parent needs to carry
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  yourself differently because your children believe that you
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  must have something going on. All these things put you on
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  pedestals rightfully or not, doesn't matter you are in that
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  predicament or in a person doesn't is inconsistent what the
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  title he has that right there is and if he's consistent and he
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  carries a torch properly, it doesn't make a difference what
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  level it is really on just carrying the torch of car
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  properly. If you make a good deal and if
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  you have you know good business conversations with your buyer
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  and you're nice and you talk properly, you don't say
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  anything. I don't say anything appropriate
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  if you're good in business and honesty.
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  If you carry yourself right away where you drive in all these
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  areas, you carry yourself consistent to the title.
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  Can't do Shashama nothing greater do the opposite.
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  You can't be selfish. You got to think of other
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  people. It's like it's standing.
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  You're in a chair and you're sitting down as the old lady
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  comes in wearing the Yamaha. Yeah, you got to be very, very
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  careful, you know, and always there is, you'll be very
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  careful. So you.
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  Can have if you do Hashem. Not just with boys.
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  You can have a guy gets up and shul.
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  I don't give an example. Have an example, have the money,
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  a guy among only Jews tell us something that's wacky.
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  Kill Hashem. Absolutely.
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  Very possibly it's bigger. You have a guy in the community,
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  community only no one outside the world.
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  There's no newspapers, nothing. He does something dishonest and
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  everybody knows inside the community.
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  Major kill Hashem when no goem, no wow.
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  All right. If the guy, he's jets up there
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  in the middle of schools, like yelling and screaming something,
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  one of those attacks, one of those crazy moments, you know
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  what you might as well know about?
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  Makes a scene feel a shame of the highest level.
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  Even though, no, all Jewish, everyone understands, doesn't
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  make a difference. You're misrepresenting the
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  title. You're not really representing
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  the uniform. You're part of the team.
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  You can't be out there. You got to be yourself.
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  You got to be God's representation.
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  That's the idea. When we cover ourselves, we need
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  to know that. All right, stop with this.