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Rabbi Moshe Haber Path of the Just: Devekut: Disconnecting from Hysteria for Divine Connection 12.4.25 · Rabbi Moshe Haber - Daily Mussar/Weekly Perasha

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  So it's closing out this one word, devekut, which is a form
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  of a Hashem. And we said yesterday in the
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  class that devekut literally means clingy dasha.
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  It's a high, lofty word. It officially describes rabbi
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  inside the cartel who just talks to Hashem or the person who sits
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  somewhere. All they learn in Nebama Dash
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  it's him and God. That's Dabek Bashem or refers to
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  the original prophets are Bahamas talking.
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  I call Mushair Arun Mushair, David Shahu Shamoy, all these
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  different people who are different forms of Captain Dasha
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  right and that connection was called Davekut.
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  But the reality is it is a theme that they had that we can have
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  today in our modern day. And that theme is we started to
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  come see a shark. It's shark went out la SUA
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  pasada to talk to Hashem in the field and explain what that
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  really was. Was a shark was isolating
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  himself from the world. He was going out to be alone
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  with God. When he was alone with God, he
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  was able to have prophecy, able to have a connection to Hashem.
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  And that is Divekut explained that every prophet before they
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  had a prophecy, they had to separate those also in this
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  world. They all were shepherds, Every
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  single one of them. Their job was a shepherd.
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  It wasn't the most, you know, well paying job or the most fine
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  work. It was perfect for a for a
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  profit. It was, you know, a shepherd.
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  You're grazing the animals, you're leading that in the
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  field, you're alone. It's you and animals.
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  And then God appears. And the overall theme of every
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  single one of these examples is it a person has the power to
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  connect to a shaman unbelievable way before you do so, you need
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  to disconnect from this world. You need to disconnect from
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  what's around you. You want to connect to God.
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  You disconnect from everything else.
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  You can't be connected to these at the same time, you can't be
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  plugged in. That's we totally focus.
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  That's the idea. So when it comes to this word
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  supposed to live in this world, good.
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  So we say prophets, we say shepherds, we say the Avot, we
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  give you La Sahba sedan, and you say to yourself, Martin Day 2025
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  are not doing anything. That's our point.
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  It's literally referring to the rabbi and The Cave, literally.
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  But actually for us it means something much deeper.
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  It means applying and reaching that level while you're in this
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  world and you're going to work and you're going to shul and you
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  have a family and you're going to parties and you're doing your
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  thing, still somehow attaining the level of isolation, the
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  level of diva quit. And the concept isn't three or
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  three folds #1A person should accept and be OK with being
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  alone with God, and that means he should have on his mind a
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  feeling. And when I am praying, it's me
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  and Usha. I'm learning.
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  It's me and Usha. When I am working, no one else
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  in the office. I have a sense of me and God
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  when I'm at home. When it's quiet in my house,
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  there's a feeling of me and Hashem, right?
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  Empty nest, no kids at home. It's me and God, me and my wife
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  or me and God. That should be in the back of
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  your head. That's first of all.
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  Last night in the class we spoke about a new word the Aqua vino
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  attains. That's considered his highest
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  attainment, highest level. What is that word?
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  A word that sounds like it's a level of fight.
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  That word is livado, Basuk says by Evaite.
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  I called livado. I was left alone and he had to
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  battle an ish or she tells us who is this ish?
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  He battles an Angel. That was when he overcame a SOB
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  and his influence in the fullest extent when he was live outdoor.
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  Going through this concept. What that means in depth is that
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  a person that thinks a level they are perfectly fine,
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  perfectly comfortable, perfectly OK, be alone with God.
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  And that means in general life, you have a lot of alone moments
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  and a lot of moments that could be alone praying could be alone
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  learning could be alone at home in a quiet day can be alone.
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  You standing somewhere by a party, nobody's around you, you
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  can be deemed alone. You're commuting alone.
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  A lot of these things are alone. And a person has to accept and
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  actually realize that he can in that moment, attain the highest
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  level imaginable. When you are alone in this world
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  and therefore alone with God, you're on the top and the
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  pinnacle of the mountain. Why?
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  Because when you're alone with God, it's clear, it's direct.
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  There's nothing distracting you. You're plugged in upstairs.
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  Well, how does it play out being alone with God?
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  What does it do for you? What it does is that if you have
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  that clear or resettled might and you're thinking about me and
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  Usher, I'm praying right now. I'm talking to God.
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  Let's be real. I'm talking to a Shem that is an
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  unbelievably elevated level that you and I reach every single
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  day. We may not be on that level.
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  Naturally, we are on that level and we accept we are alone with
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  a Shem. It's a modern day concept more
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  than it was back then. Back then, it was easy.
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  Back then, you went out to the field.
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  It was not around you. All right, You went to a wedding
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  to 100 people. Exactly.
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  You're always alone. So it's easy to attain today.
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  It takes some work. First of all, accept it.
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  Turn the lawn mopes. Second of all, let's go to the
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  next step of. People, I feel don't want that,
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  like I was yesterday in class with the rabbi, my office,
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  they're talking about people always running places, running
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  away. Classification or?
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  Whatever it is that any excuse yet not to.
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  Be able. To help self self reflection.
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  So they look at interference because they really don't want
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  to grow up. Because if you're, you can't say
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  stagnant or go up and down. And then you're with, you know,
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  your, your auditor and you know, you feel like this and you want
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  to feel good because right, you have money, you have this, you
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  have bad. Well you don't want to make
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  yourself vulnerable so you stay on the road and you never really
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  have to deal with with that moment of self help or
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  improvement in your relationship as ours.
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  Correct. I don't know.
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  When I'm vacation, I'm sitting in the sun and I'm doing
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  everything. But are you alone OK, you're
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  talking about first of all, let's talk about different
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  people on different I'll tell you the difference here.
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  Some people vacation is 12 months giant and there is it's
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  on their mind is what they're talking about.
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  Was I doing the next would that mean?
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  You're not the guy who you know has a scheduled vacation every
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  year and you? Know well that reflects that's
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  why so there's a lot of things you're picking up here that
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  reflects that on my vacation reflects the fact that he's not
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  really content in the now. Is he real he doesn't really
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  enjoy here now. It's just the way people are.
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  Some people are like that. I know some people all they do
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  is talk from Thanksgiving until that session.
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  I mean session don't Passover Passover until deal halfway
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  through July they're on to the next thing and it's like the
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  most upsetting and unsettling and really not happy existence
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  in reality, but it exists those people they're never going to
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  close to live our door mindset because they really can't sit
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  and live in the now. Now part of that is what you're
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  saying, which is they're not comfortable in their current
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  situation. They're not really content at
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  starters. It's not content.
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  You're not content. It's partially because a lot of
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  layers to this. It's partially because there is
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  no meaning in the now. Today is a Thursday, Thursday in
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  December. OK, let's take A to then.
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  December. Technically speaking, it could
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  be quite boring, it could be quite monotonous.
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  And here's what it is. Come and go.
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  Do you think, how do you develop a degree of happiness and
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  therefore acceptance of Levaldor and therefore connection to God
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  when you see meaning on a Thursday, when you say to
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  yourself, I am very, very happy and perfectly OK with this day,
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  It's a nice day, it's cold, it's a fine day, my family's OK.
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  I have my thing, Shabbat is coming, I have work to do, I
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  have family to run. I have a lot going on.
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  I'm learning, I'm doing, I'm good.
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  If you accept that level of contentness, then be able to
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  then go further and be OK with being alone with me being in
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  this mode, wherever that mode is.
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  The idea of a loan is this mode is awesome.
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  The greatest wealth a person can have and every area is that this
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  situation is awesome. Once you get there, then you
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  connect to God. If you don't get there, you a
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  few steps before even connected to a sham.
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  Why? Because if I am not content
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  right here, right now, I'm not you.
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  It's around me, right? Because I'm not here.
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  If I'm not, I'm not at peace at the moment.
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  I'm not living here. That guy who's 12 months out of
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  the vacation is not living right here.
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  And I was shocked and they get told about, though definitely no
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  chance can they get to a connection to God.
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  There are steps over here. The step you want to reach is
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  the relationship alone with our chef.
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  The way to reach that is through this process to be content to be
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  levador and then accept being a law.
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  Now there's a second degree to this which is far more
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  challenging in 2025, and that is creating a loan.
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  Really connect and think on hall and the only way you can really
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  connect the guard as if you said yesterday, as if you disconnect
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  from anything else. You know, they have these, I'm
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  not going to call it T or whatever.
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  Have these signs. Unplug from your phone and plug
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  dash in. Yeah, disconnect all those cute,
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  a little bit overdone, whatever that approach.
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  They're right in the sense our brain is pulled 1000 1/2 ways.
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  Stop by thinking about how many things are on your mind during
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  you know, they flood your mind during I mean that we say how
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  many things come in. It's played out with wherever
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  your kids, your grandkids on your mind somewhere you're
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  worrying about the kids who are still single.
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  You're worrying about not you're not worrying about health,
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  although we should, but it worked on your mind unless it is
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  there's this this business and that business and this buy your
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  rent, that issuance that rent and this thing on your mind and
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  someone's was insulted and someone's was going to get
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  insulted and someone. So what's going to be with you
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  about it doesn't end. It literally does not end.
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  And you see it for people's conversations.
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  That's all that's running through their brain, all these
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  things. And then there's the news and
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  then there's the bigger news and then there's the news in
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  Australia and then there's all this news that they throw you
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  away, which are meant to tell you crazy.
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  Do you realize it's possible by now?
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  Pre, just give me an example. Pre October 7th, right?
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  Israel IDF was a very strong working machine, A lot going on
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  and a lot of things going on IDF since the beginning, correct?
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  They have a lot of things that they're doing.
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  You will not have enough to date with every little out of the IDF
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  operation. And the you, the Udine Shamron,
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  you wouldn't have known about it if not for the fact that you
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  became a member, honorary member of the IDF when October 7th
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  happened. How could you follow that news?
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  And that's great. It's great to be on top of it,
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  but it's a little unsettling every time you hear that they
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  found guns in some Arabs pocket. FYI, Arabs have guns.
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  They don't like us very much, right?
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  And if I have to live without stress, and by the way, I get
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  nervous every time I see another thing.
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  They uncover this and they uncover that and they follow
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  this part. They follow that plate.
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  It might be more now than it was before, but it definitely
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  existed forever, right? Yeah, well, even the weather.
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  There's wet weather on Keys. It was supposed to snow.
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  Yes, Tuesday. Yeah, I said.
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  Yes, and a glass here. I said I had a person at my
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  office on Monday night text me. I don't think I'm going to be
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  able to make it in I I said is there a nuclear war that I don't
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  know about? Being sarcastic.
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  I know, right? No, no, it's all Store I.
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  Had to go. 200 years away I go, this is a freehold.
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  So I go, I'm in deal. I go out to my tour.
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  I say what? You're not joking?
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  Then I send a a shot of myself. I said these get real. 2nd.
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  It's out of hand. Yesterday he wake up for a wind.
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  Tuesday morning, it's rainy. Rain.
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  It's rainy, cold rain. But the reality is, is that by
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  the way, there's a reason that was so distracted.
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  It is by design. It is 1000% by design.
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  Watch those social media movies, learn and follow the process.
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  It is all being designed. Everyone is just trying one
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  thing. They are trying to make our
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  brain theirs as they were. And by the way, excuse me, it's
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  all about money. So ultimately what they have at
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  their, their job is to make money.
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  They have to create new money from already existing people.
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  The only way they can do that is by taking us and making us their
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  owners, owned by them more, by them, a little more.
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  If they own 10% of me, they get certain amount of money.
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  They want 20% of me and more money, 30% of my brain, more
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  money. It's all different ways to cut
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  into my brain and what they're taking away from me is this
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  ability to apply devekut, devekut it's connection to God.
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  It's an unbelievable shame this point.
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  It's the wildest shame. We are living in the richest
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  generation world community health some ha blessing all the
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  challenges, sure that challenges are people not getting married,
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  absolutely. Are people having issues of
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  business? Absolutely.
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  But overall, there's such a level of wealth, and I don't
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  mean money only. I mean everything which is
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  wealthy. We have to grade schools,
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  schools, things going on. And the same time we are living
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  in the most hysterical, the shoes about to drop, life is
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  about to go crazy. Things are going to go mad.
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  Mindset. Your brain is literally like, Oh
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  my gosh, yeah, that line of people say, Rabbi, the world
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  today is going mad. The world today is awesome.
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  The news has gotten you crazy. And then with the people I've
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  gotten said, and by the way, be clear this no one is safe from
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  this. Nobody.
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  No one is protected. No institutions, no minors, the
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  way people run institutions, no decisions regarding
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  institutions, no decision regarding our children.
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  Nobody is safe from the hysteria.
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  And the hysteria is making cracks everywhere.
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  So you're taking a beautiful, peaceful, wonderful world and
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  you're literally ruining it for zero reason at all just because
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  they say this and they say that, and they're talking about this.
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  They're talking about that. Actually, I don't want to get
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  clearer on my hands, but the reality is everything in the
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  world, in our minds and even the way the community can be run is
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  based on this hysteria. And it's all made-up.
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  It's all just people talking. If you go inside any of our
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  institutions, they run fine. They run the way they were run
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  before. They get hysterical and then
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  they got crazy. They ruined themselves from
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  outside in. That's how it works to ruin some
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  from inside out, from outside in.
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  That's just one example, but now.
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  It got cost OK, It's all this stuff used to stay externally
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  and I, I, I keep on bringing this as an example when this
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  happened the the whole Ukraine war.
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  Yeah, great example and now. Digging into it and talking to
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  people, whether it's in, in, in Israel, Rafa.
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  Or is that sure it was one thing?
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  False. Yeah, they regret.
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  They regret the level of the whole approach 100%.
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  You know it was treated better than SBH.
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  Yeah, yeah. Our.
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  Organizations today are suffering still from some of
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  that, you know, pounding that the the money was all diverted.
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  Yeah. So at the moment, again, this is
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  part of this is this is literally this area in the world
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  we live in. Yeah, I got.
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  Scored up in the media. We get caught up in everything.
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  That's one example and it's a great example.
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  I'm now I'm not the disparaging Italian movement and there were
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  people at risk and stuff like that, but it was definitely
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  overdone and it definitely was not our role to disagree.
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  And then you move in a different application.
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  The same concept is the mayor race.
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  A month ago. That was too much hysteria.
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  It wasn't healthy and it wasn't kosher and it wasn't even
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  Jewish. The level of the hysteria.
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  Is it a big deal, right. It was everything I do.
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  Think Hashem is now going to stop running our world?
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  We overdid the role of a mayor in the process.
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  We've made them do a bigger deal.
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  By the way, we probably the reason why he actually met the
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  president. The mayor to meet the president
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  Since when does the mayor meet the president?
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  Mayor elect the answer is he was building such a big thing it's
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  all part of the sister. You don't stand our lives.
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  I tell us to my family every day all the time.
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  Our lives are so unbelievably awesome and blessed.
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  Everything is going, everything is smooth.
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  We got everything. He's got restaurants and schools
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  and schools and and good homes and a good unbelievable
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  Summertown and great. Vacations have that in every
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  country in the world. You've been thrown out of those
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  countries. Deal with it when it comes your
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  way reality now when some guy is is a nut job, don't get crazy
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  yet. Deal with it and it comes your
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  way in a healthy normal way. Don't.
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  I don't use the German thing for now, but yeah, please go to.
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  Spain. I'm not giving me Germany.
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  Bristol Clear. That, you know, that was Bristol
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  right before his consecutive show.
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  We live in a different type of culture.
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  Germany. People, there are people you
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  ever do you realize the people who get up and do these in this
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  crazier sense, the people who do these let's say shootings,
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  sadly, it crazy people partially because a big part of it when
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  they say they got radicalized and they got crazy, a lot of it
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  is this. Their mind is like they think
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  the world's coming to an end. The world's like over the end
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  tomorrow, relax. They think it is they they see
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  these coming and they see pictures and they imagine Ebony
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  this overly, overly hyped and everyone is doing this because
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  they know they can do this to us and we have a beautiful world.
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  You go back to the vicout, you can connect to God and normally
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  boy, you can connect to people around you in a beautiful way.
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  Just clean out this nonsense. Don't read into every single
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  thing you understand at at one time the stress level that we
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  are going to deal with at all times.
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  Actually, it's always going to be extreme.
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  There is always going to be something that's very difficult.
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  Try to find me today. There's no community issue.
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  There's no community financial issue.
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  There's no New York City issue. There's no American issue.
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  There's no Israeli issue. Try to find me that day.
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  When that day happens. Beautiful.
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  How about when family gets along, everyone getting along
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  perfectly? Try to find me that day when
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  that happens. Beautiful.
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  That happens. But to this, yeah.
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  Well. Like if you went back 20 years,
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  in, in, in our, in our lives, was it this?
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  Like mayhem. No, no, but it is how it works.
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  The system spills into the cycle.
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  I don't know, 20 years ago, but there was a cycle, which means
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  nowadays it's because there's mayhem that there is more
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  mayhem. So let's take, for example,
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  argument's sake. No, whatever.
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  I think the school topic world, right?
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  It's kind of a kind of stream. It's all over the place.
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  It's possibly all over the place because it started to become a
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  little place and people talk about it, people, people
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  compare, they contrast. And then you can't breathe.
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  And now if you're running a school, I'm assuming you need to
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  you, you probably function in a world or you don't know what
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  tomorrow's going to bring. You don't know what's going to
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  be who's going to take over. How are they going to take over
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  what the direction's going to be?
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  What's the building or the hysteria?
• 20:13
  Hysteria, hysteria, hysteria, Hysteria feeds hysteria.
• 20:16
  That's one of the greatest animals of hysteria.
• 20:18
  Everyone knows that hysteria feeds hysteria.
• 20:20
  So once they get the snowball rolling in any area, we're going
• 20:24
  to live four years in the mindset of fear from this guy.
• 20:28
  You're going to live in a constant struggle when it comes
• 20:31
  to Israel and Hamas until officially they're wiped away
• 20:34
  completely, which we know. It's very hard to imagine they
• 20:37
  ever will be because it's not even a clear concept, that idea.
• 20:40
  You can live forever in this sort of right.
• 20:42
  I always say this people when they talk about going to Israel.
• 20:45
  I gave my example and I was there, I was driving, he told us
• 20:50
  a cab driver example, my favorite example, I was running
• 20:53
  there and as a cab driver, I, I said there was some sort of
• 20:57
  terrorist attack at the time somewhere.
• 20:59
  That's all them. What's going to be some of this?
• 21:01
  It's really a cab driver. I said in America, they're
• 21:04
  making me make me deal about this.
• 21:06
  I was living in Israel at the time.
• 21:07
  He stops the car, pulls up at this side of the road and stops
• 21:10
  the car urgently. Israeli Yakin cab driver, he
• 21:14
  says In Israel bar it's zed tomato.
• 21:22
  In America, Zed watermelon. It's it's an American.
• 21:27
  They make a huge deal. We make a big deal about what's
• 21:30
  going on in Israel. Then they do all right.
• 21:32
  It's just a part of our hysteria and we have to realize it's
• 21:34
  trying and annoying and taking away from the beauty of our
• 21:38
  lives and we're living a beautiful life.
• 21:40
  We're living one. We connect to everyone around
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  us. If we clean away.
• 21:45
  This is Nario. Stop with this.