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Rabbi Moshe Haber Perashat Matot-Maasei: The Pipeline of Blessing: Wealth, Wisdom, and Purpose 7.10.26 · Rabbi Moshe Haber - Daily Mussar/Weekly Perasha

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  A little bit. So we actually have this week we
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  have two to close at the book, up on the bar, close out on the
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  sales, you know the perspective of the travels in the desert,
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  even though there's more in the varim.
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  But to close it out, we have two now.
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  My thought, Master, there's one part of my thought that I want
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  to look at 'cause his reaction by Mushiya Benham, they might
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  seem a little bit. Maybe there's a portion if we
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  look at it simply, we have to understand why he gets he reacts
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  so strong and that is Hashem tos mosheda beno and arpa Asha take
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  regret, take care of revenge. Excuse me against median.
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  Median are the ones who made a sin.
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  Median is the ones are the ones based on Belam's advice, he
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  created a sinning and therefore plague and all that.
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  So God says the time to take revenge and you know this is
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  Mosheda Ben's last obligation before he passes away.
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  That's how Hashem said Hashem says actually a connection, take
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  revenge and then Valhat and then you're going to gather which
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  means and then Mushair is going to pass the word.
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  A nice side point is he going to dodge rights and Mushair been
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  really had all the time in the world.
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  If he wanted to delay this mitzvah, he could have pushed it
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  off an army cell itself wanted to push it off because Mushair's
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  life and his passing were connected to the mitzvah.
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  If he would do the mitzvah later and he would die later and they
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  do. She wanted to push it away, but
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  Hashem said to do it now and they did it now.
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  And Moshe himself also, one thing to be done now, but what
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  happens in the middle of the pahashah every time you sell,
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  goes and fights Midian and brings back all the spoils of
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  the war. We learn actually all the laws
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  of kashut, how to kosher items from that part of the Bahashah.
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  And the basuk says, O Mkhneera, there was a large amount, a very
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  big load. Hayalibnetu van Ulibnet got two
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  of the tribes had a very large load.
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  They had a very big amount with them at zoom odd.
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  It was very large inside, very large in value, but you do it,
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  as I said with Ed's Gilad Vienna, Macomb Macomb, they saw
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  the areas that they were in right now, the areas that I'm so
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  see, we were conquering lands before we got into Israel,
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  conquering lands on the outside of the earth there.
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  And I'm so, so this and these specifically these two tribes
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  who had the most cattle with them and the biggest load with
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  them, they saw this by avo bne gods of Neduvan.
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  And these two tribes came to Moshe Ave.
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  El Moshe Vela Azarakohen, Velma CIA del Amo.
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  They came to the leaders and they said Atarat vid Yvonne,
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  Atarot vid Yvonne via Azave and all these different areas,
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  Vidharam, Velarim, Ushwan, Vidharam, these different areas
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  over here on the side of the Aden, the areas that you already
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  conquered. He said these words, Ayomro, in
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  Matsano, we are found in favor in your eyes, Moshe, you turn it
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  to Alex Azot la Vaderha. Give to your servants this land,
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  La Cruza as a place to encamp. Al tavien itaya den.
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  Do not cross us over to the Jordan River across the Jordan.
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  And Moshe Abena reacts very strongly.
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  What was the request? The request was we want to
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  settle here. We have a lot of cattle.
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  We have a lot of stuff with us, The Jewish people.
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  You've conquered some lands before you even got there to
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  sail, right? The future land.
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  We're over here now. We have a lot of space.
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  We have a lot of cattle. Let us settle here and we'll
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  share. Reacts extremely strongly.
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  We don't want shit with me. God living in a van.
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  Come out. Your brothers are going to go to
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  war. About 1:50 point.
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  You're going to sit here, but I'm at the new IT Lebanese, I'm
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  not. How can you ruin the morale, the
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  the excitement, the dedications obviously avoided the artists.
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  A lot of Shinata Alohaim Hashem. He could destroy their motive to
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  go into Israel, call Asuvo to him.
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  This is the same mindset as the Magalene.
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  You guys asked him to stay here during camp here because you
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  have a lot of cattle. It's the same mindset as the
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  Magalene. The spies by Alua Nakaleshkol,
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  the artists basically throwing accusations at them.
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  They asked to settle the cattle here because they have a lot of
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  cattle and more shit up. And who says what are you guys
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  doing? You're destroying of us.
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  We have to go in, we have to go fight and now you're destroying
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  the morale. And then he says you have the
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  same mentality as the spies who went up to look.
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  I knew you would live in a cell and they destroyed the motive
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  about Michelle Liberty ball audits.
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  We know we stuck out 40 years because of them.
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  I should not tell them Hashem, but you cut off Hashem by your
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  MO and my shit reminds them. You know how angry God got by
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  the spies. Aye shaval le mort Hashem made a
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  whole swear on the great penalty and that penalty was now one
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  single person outside of Yoshua and Caliph will be allowed to go
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  into Israel from that generation because of the mindset that was
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  developed by the spies. What are you doing?
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  Well, she reminds him that he cut off.
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  I shouldn't be said I shouldn't got a very anger at the Jewish
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  people and cut this in the barn 4040 years and made the entire
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  generation pass away and you are Vinay contempt.
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  That was the him and you guys with your idea and your request
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  are replacing that exact same mindset.
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  You're standing in their stead Tarbuta nashim khattai and this
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  is sinful to create more anger of God.
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  Keep the Shivun Makhrav. You're backing away from going
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  into Israel. You're going to make us stick it
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  out longer and you do these words, the Shikhatam, the cola
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  maze, and you can destroy the whole nation, I guess.
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  Sure, Allah via route. They came back and they said no,
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  no, no. We have a lot of cattle.
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  We just want to build some cities for our cattle and for
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  our children, and then we'll go in and fight.
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  Vanaknu, nikhaled, hushim, if Nebenesel.
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  We're going to go in and fight along with the whole Jewish
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  people. We're not backing away from the
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  fight. We're not backing away from
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  going in. We're going to partner up with
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  our brothers. We're going to go in and fight.
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  We just want a place to settle in our cattle and our children.
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  And then Moshe had been a response and says, OK, if that's
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  what you say, let's make a deal and the deal is we're going to
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  make a condition. You can have this land for the
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  Carolina children so long as you come in and fight.
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  Moshe had double S down on the condition.
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  In fact, all the laws of condition.
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  They're called Tanai Binay God O Binay oven.
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  These two tribes and the the condition the Moshe have been
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  made with them. This is the source of all our
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  detailed laws of conditions and they are they want to make a
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  real condition. It has to be doubled down,
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  meaning you have to say you can have this land if you go in, and
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  if you don't go in, you lose the land.
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  Even though that's automatically understood, you still need to be
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  clear and say both parts in order to make a real condition
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  based on this made the clearest condition imaginable on these
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  people. So what do you have?
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  They asked for something. Moshe's reaction seems way over
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  the top, in my humble opinion. He has.
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  Can we settle over here? Our cattle and our animal and
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  our children. They didn't say we're not going
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  to go in. They said let us.
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  So Moshe went to the moon and he compared them to the tribes.
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  Is there anything in their words directly that says we like the
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  tribes? No, you can infer that, but it
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  was never cleaned. Said may have, may have been
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  implied, but it wasn't clear as day.
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  Moshe directly has an allegation against them.
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  You guys have the same mentality as the tribes.
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  You can have the same destruction as the tribes and
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  same negative insect wild. And they respond and they say
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  no, no, we meant let us settle our animals and our children and
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  we'll go on a fight and we say, OK, if that's the case, you have
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  a deal. By the way, end of the day, were
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  they right or was Moshe right? Were they really very pure
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  motive? They just wanted to place to
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  settle the cattle and animal and their children or the mushair.
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  You don't see anywhere that they were terribly wrong.
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  You do, huh They. Come to fight and you.
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  They come to fight, they do come to fight.
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  They put their. Carol before.
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  They the answer the mushair better was on to something.
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  He was on to something that is one of the most important
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  concepts imaginable, a concept that he lived literally the
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  opposite. And that is the issue was, you
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  see in their word, they said when they repeated themselves
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  and they defended us. So they said we just need a
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  place to put our cattle and our children.
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  What's wrong with that thing, the order?
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  So what's wrong with that? What's wrong with that is this.
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  These tribes were very wealthy. They were full of cattle, lots
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  of cattle. They had a lot of money.
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  We're very well off. When they said the words our
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  cattle and our children, they showed their hand.
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  And that is, they're too dedicated to their wealth.
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  They're too focused on their property.
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  They're too busy with what they have as gifts.
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  And the materialism, Mushidim was on to that.
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  It wasn't so much a fact that they didn't want to go into
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  Israel because they didn't want to fight.
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  That wasn't his problem. His problem was you guys
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  misunderstand the wealth that God gave you.
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  I understand that if you have wealth and it's a big load, you
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  want to stop here. It's easier.
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  I understand that. But that's only because you
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  think that the purpose of wealth is wealth itself.
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  The purpose of Baraka is to be used here.
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  So because of that, you're thinking to yourself, settle
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  here and ignore Israel. One SEC.
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  Why are we travelling in the desert?
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  What's the purpose? The purpose of travelling in the
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  desert? To gate the age of sail.
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  Let's back it up. Why do we have Matanzora?
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  The purpose of Matanzora is to be combined with it is held to
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  be fulfilled in the ASDL. Go further by why do we have
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  these salami? Same in order to be able to be
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  taken out of madsayam to get to the to get to the come even
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  further back. Why don't we go into madsayam in
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  order to suffer that pain and that slavery?
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  All right, Hashem to the Bahama vino.
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  You're going to have a little bit of a detour in order to go
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  to Edsilla. Why do we have a nation?
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  What? It's all connected.
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  And you guys right before the finish line, you're pretty much
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  by the border. Right before the finish line.
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  You're saying we want to settle here.
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  You know how ridiculous that sounds?
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  That's like a ballplayer saying Aunt Lily's body, the one yard
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  line. He's saying to himself, you know
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  what, I got it all right. He literally, he had a a clear
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  run into one yard. He broke away from the defense
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  and he's going and he's going. He's going.
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  He stops and settles down and sits down by the 1 yard.
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  You got your mind. The goal is to get to the finish
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  line. The entire purpose to get to the
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  finish line. But the mindset is that they got
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  too dedicated to their money and property that material and they
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  forgot why they here and why they have and what should have
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  been was so upset because their they lose their cattle.
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  They lose they want it was easier for them to have the
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  cattle to grow the to massive settle here.
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  It wasn't like they can lose it, by the way, but they wanted to
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  focus on this. I'm going to share them.
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  It's going to take years. Exactly.
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  We always talk about it. Today we stay here.
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  And endure. Well, I see.
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  I hear you. It's a good.
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  Question you read the writing on the wall.
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  It was they got cattle and our kids and go.
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  Maybe if it was clear as day and it would have been that simple.
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  You're right, if it was clear as this, we're not there yet and we
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  are and game over. I'm with you outside.
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  Pack my beds and I'll go. I'm with you.
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  Also, the same problem they have now.
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  Yeah, they were afraid that they didn't want to, but but they
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  were afraid. She was afraid that the people
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  wouldn't want to come out and fight.
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  Right. And that's another problem.
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  We're kind of having a similar situation.
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  Yeah, that's a complicated thing.
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  That's definitely a complicated conversation, right?
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  I'm not. Yeah, it's definitely a
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  complicated conversation. The difference, if there is one,
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  is that they were focusing on materialism.
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  Just keep your liberal right there.
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  You say it. Keep your liberal Jews there.
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  Does Hashem get involved at all? So Michelle Beno is officially
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  speaking on behalf of Hashem. Moshe is confident by comparing
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  it to the spies. Moshe is confident that he knows
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  that this motive is very similar to the spies.
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  What is that motive? If you dig deep, what is the
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  connection between the spies and these people?
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  Spies, Let's go to Amidash. The spies, they gave a negative
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  description of the language. Same issue.
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  Why did they give that description?
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  They didn't want to change. They didn't want to change
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  because they didn't want to lose their positions when they were
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  going to go into Israel 'cause they imagine it sounds so out of
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  this world. Hey, you have the opportunity of
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  the purpose of your existence and you're afraid to lose your
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  job. By the way, God will give you a
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  new job. You're afraid to lose your job.
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  Therefore you're not going in, which shows again a
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  misunderstanding of motives. And that's why Shaban is
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  comparison. In other words, that both these
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  sets of people are getting too focused on what they have right
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  now, too busy with this moment and my materialistic stuff and
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  misunderstanding that my goal is the finish line.
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  Don't get stopped before the finish line.
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  Now, why do I assume what should I ban on himself?
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  We're so upset about this because now this understanding,
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  this mindset, it's not just forgetting about Israel,
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  forgetting about the purpose. What it is is someone not
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  realizing God did give them wealth.
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  God give them wealth. They had a lot of capital and a
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  lot of wealth. But the issue with their motive
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  was and their perspective was why do we have wealth?
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  Why do we have wisdom? Why do we have, why do we have
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  peace? Why do we have Peace of Mind?
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  Why do we have family? Why do we have health?
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  Everything that we have is supposed to be leading to
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  something else. When someone misunderstands why
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  they have what they have, they stopped right here right now and
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  they start to focus on that. Imagine a person has a beautiful
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  house on deal when someone comes to him and says you want to have
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  an event in your house. They said no, it's going to ruin
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  my my denim. I understand you are you clear,
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  but God gave you that house in order to have but aha and good
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  things in your house delete the things.
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  Imagine a person has a very small mind.
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  It's very wise, very good someone you want to learn to
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  die. He says no, it's going to
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  confuse me. I I'm a lawyer and I focus a lot
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  of time on intellectual law, American law, and if I learn how
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  to ha ha ha shemesh part is going to confuse me.
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  I hear you. God gave you a mind to make
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  money to be involved in law. I understand, but the goal is
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  that you use that mind for the French sign for Torah.
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  A person's got a lot of money and someone says you want you're
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  going to give charities a lot of needs out to a lot of people
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  have needs. Listen, I have money and I need
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  to use it for my family. I need to use it to buy a
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  penthouse here and the department there and someone
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  else. I understand you.
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  You do have money and it's a blessing.
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  That's great, but God gave you that money as a means to get to
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  the finish line. The problem with this mentality
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  was not simply a lack of respect to Israel, which is Moshe
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  Abeda's problem. And by the way, the opposite of
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  Mushe Abeda's mentality. He would do anything to get this
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  right. Exactly.
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  The Medaj tells us that he asked Hashem, just make me a bird and
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  let me fly into Israel as a bird.
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  I don't want anything. And Mushe's gift that God gave
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  him, his stand on this mountain and you could look at the land.
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  Just look at the land was not fame so he got right so his
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  officer mushed about his mentality is out insulting
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  mushed about his mission correct, but deeper than that is
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  that mushed was telling them you guys are misunderstanding why
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  you have this cattle. The Madaj says that there were
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  two people in history that some of the wisest people, Akito Film
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  and Balaam, a Jew or Ananju, and the outcome was they both die
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  and terrible shame because they both had wisdom and they used
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  their own way. There were two people, the
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  wealthiest people, a Jew and Ananju, who are the two
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  wealthiest people, a Jew and Ananju, Korak, Korak and Haman
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  and they both died in shame because they misunderstood the
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  purpose of their wealth. And that is the same thing with
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  everything in life. And the reason why I should have
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  been really so upset is you guys have better how you're lucky you
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  guys are wealthy. It's a gift, don't misunderstand
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  it. And where did you receive proven
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  that Michelle was right and they were wrong that their motive was
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  that way when they mentioned the cow before their chosen, When
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  they mentioned the cow before their chosen, that means they
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  really are too busy with the cow.
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  And don't tell me you have your cow for the sake of your chosen.
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  You wouldn't be your cow for your chosen.
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  That were the case. And obviously the two focus on
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  the purpose and actually the having of the year.
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  Why does he agree to the deal on the end of the day?
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  Because ultimately what they do is nothing wrong once he made
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  that condition. But you see, their original
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  motive was problematic, huh? Didn't solve the problem.
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  It did because the issue must have been really had was you
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  guys want to have the bad mentality, so be it.
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  But you're going to destroy the morale of the people.
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  If you're going to come and fight, the morale will stay
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  strong. That was his problem.
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  If you're going to settle here and you're going to prove it,
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  there's no need to the land and there's no interest in fighting.
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  You're making it seem like this whole thing is a waste of time.
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  How far was it from? It's right there.
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  It's course of Jordan right over the border.
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  Monday will be right. By the way.
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  These are the these are the people who got punished a day
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  exiled first and they got loot as a punishment for this.
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  Because you're too, you're not respecting the land enough.
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  You're not respecting the purpose enough and you're too
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  focused on the material. That's the mindset.
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  Now I'm going to tell you why Moshe and himself was so upset
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  about this. But the Moshe was a very wise
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  man and he was a very gifted man and everything going for him.
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  But he is described as a senior. What's a senior?
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  The pipe, pipe, pipe means all the Barracuda was given to him.
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  He understood it's for the sake of the people.
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  All the wealth that he was given to him, he understood well, sure
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  was very wealthy men. He understood it was for the
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  sake of our mesel. He understood as the sake of
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  service of Hashem. In other words, he understood
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  that when God gives you a status, they're not meant to
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  stop here. The meant to lead to something
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  else. And don't misunderstand how
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  Hashem gives you barakah. Don't misunderstand the purpose
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  of your barakah. Don't stop here.
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  Now, everything that we have is all meant to get to the finish
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  line. And if you stop right before the
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  finish line, you're completely confusing God's purpose of His
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  barakah. These people, when they were
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  given that wealth and they were thinking it's meant to settle
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  their thing is meant to settle outside the idea.
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  And what they're saying in their mind is my wealth is meant for
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  wealth. No, no, Yobaraka is meant for a
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  purpose, service of Hashem, settling the land, building a
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  nation, and yes, raising your children, all meant for that.
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  Not settling here. Settling here is a complete
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  confusion. And any person in the modern day
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  who is very wealthy and it says my money is meant for my own
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  self. You know, God gave you something
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  as a delivery boy for the next step.
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  Same with his mind, same with his talents.
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  Same with any gift that you have.
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  It's all meant to be used. Nothing should be stopped here.
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  Everything I like across the board, you name your gift,
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  they're all a pipeline. Everything you have is a pipe.
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  You stop with any talent that you have.
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  It's meant to be a pipe to be delivered to other people, to
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  service of Hashem. Thinking about what you have,
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  Person's smart, person's talented, person's charismatic,
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  person has money, person has a good family, Anything you have
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  should be used as somebody else. Nothing should be stopped here.
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  Everything can be turned into something.
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  These people misunderstood that and because of that, or should
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  have been, I was very upset. Guys like the spies.
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  You're taking your gifts and you want to keep it here.
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  You want to freeze now you want to stop before the finish line.
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  You're misunderstanding why you are what you are.
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  So Moshe was considered a Shaliaka version.
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  What's a Shaliaka version? Messenger.
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  Messenger means I got my better, huh?
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  I give it to other people to give out talks about wealthy
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  people. You know the classic come out
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  out. We just landed the other night
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  where Gory, a Greek Rashad came to a rabbi and said, ABI Akiva,
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  if your God loves the poor people, why does he make them
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  poor? Quick question.
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  Solid question. Was the rabbi's answer for our
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  sake? For the wealthy sake.
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  Was able to facilitate. Be able to for the wealthy to be
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  able to give. What does that mean?
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  That means says that God really deposits the poor person's money
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  in my hands for me to just give it over to him.
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  It's his money. It's totally his money.
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  God just gave it to me to give it to him.
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  And if I stop and say I'm not delivering, so you're a mailman
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  who's not delivering the mail. You're misunderstanding God's
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  plan and you're planning it. You're going opposite God's
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  plan. And that is the truth.
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  With every single gift you have. You name your gift, if it's your
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  wisdom, if it's your talent, if it's your wealth, whatever it
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  may be, it's meant to be used, to be developed, to be handed
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  over, and that's to create a beautiful world.
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  If you stop here, you're like these people who completely, the
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  entire Jewish nation from Abraham and Vienna until today
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  was trying to get to the finish line.
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  Are you going to stop right before the finish line?
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  You completely misunderstanding your position and your existence
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  of this world. I'll give you my favorite
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  example of someone not understanding who they are.
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  It's a classic example. I always think of this.
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  You have a ball player who's very famous, got a big contract
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  for being a ball player on the site.
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  They become a movie actor. Ever heard of this?
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  Become a movie actor. Shaq.
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  Right, All these guys, right? What happens?
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  Or they become a singer? What happens when you find out
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  that they're late to practice because they're too busy filming
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  a movie? Hello.
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  Your purpose, your existence is to dribble the bull.
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  That's who you are. That's your thing to entertain
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  and dribbling and shooting. You misunderstand who you are
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  when you focus on the side benefit that you got by also
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  becoming an actor because you're famous, not because of a talent
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  as an actor, right? Every person who has any gift,
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  your job is to use that gift. And the using that gift means
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  deliver it, send it to its finish line.
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  If you are a person who's charismatic, who's who's, who
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  has a very good sense of humor, lift people up, make people feel
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  good, give them khizuk and you have a small thing to say about
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  other people, Say that nice word and change their day because
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  that's why you have that idea in your mind.
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  If you're a person who has panasa, deliver it, send it to
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  the finish line. Live people's lives.
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  Because the truth of the matter is the whole Jewish world is
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  surviving on the wealth and the generosity of those who give,
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  who have their understanding that message.
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  So give your person who has wisdom, give over that to the
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  give over those ideas. Say that advice another person.
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  You have advice in business and you see someone opening up a
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  business, cope with them and tell them, listen, I think you
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  should do this. Do that and you'll change their
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  business for them because you're going to give them a few words
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  of why you have the ideas in the 1st place.
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  Same is true if you have advice in other areas across the board.
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  Use yourself to other people. Be like Moshe Arvindo and be a
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  shellac. So the reason Moshe Arvindo was
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  so upset at these people, the reason reacted so strongly is
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  because what he witnessed was people living life for the exact
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  opposite reason of why they have their life and instead your job,
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  my job, our job is to be people who are a pipeline.
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  And here's the benefit of being a pipe.
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  I'm with this. What's the benefit of being a
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  pipe like more share been delivering to the finish line.
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  The way God works is a God If he sees a very if you have that's a
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  you're a company and you're you're sending water down
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  certain pipes, right. One pipe is clogged, another one
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  is clear. Which one would you send the
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  water down, the clogged pipe or the clear pipe?
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  Clear pipe. So when you realize through
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  Hashem, if you realize that this pipe, this message, this method
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  is delivering to the other people perfectly, this guy is
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  taking his money. He's giving it away, taking his
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  money. He's giving away, taking his
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  wisdom and helping other people, taking his talents and lifting
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  other people up. What are you going to do?
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  You're going to send more down that pipe.
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  Whereas the other guy was clogging his pipe because he's
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  keeping it from himself. You're going to say, OK, he's
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  not understanding his purpose. He's not understanding why he
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  has it. Time to shut off that valve.
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  I'm just going to go to the clearer 1.
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  So when a person is like Moshita Banu who uses his wisdom, his
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  wealth, his talents, all for other people, God gives you more
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  wisdom, more wealth, more talent.
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  This plays into two concepts, 2 concepts that come to my mind
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  right now. We'll close This one is 1 is
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  when you give charity, What do they tell you?
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  What is what I tell you, you give you got more for this
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  reason, because you're a pipeline.
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  You're a good pipeline probably gives you more.
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  And the other one is maybe one of the most strange hazals in
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  history. And that is who do you learn
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  more from? Your rabbis, your peers or your
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  students? Doesn't make any sense.
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  How in the world does not make any sense.
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  You learn more from your students than you do from your
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  rabbis. One second, your rabbis are
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  giving you tada, settled in clear finished product.
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  Your peers are fighting it out with you.
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  Your students, they're flawed. They're learning from you.
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  How does it make any sense? They teach you more to that than
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  you're always answer it. The answer is those questions.
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  That's how God does it, through questions and through debating
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  and everything like that. But the concept in depth is that
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  Hashem says you're teaching, you're giving over.
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  Let me give you more ideas. You're a good pipe.
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  Let me load up that pipe with more stuff.
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  So our message from this pleasure is that we can have so
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  much more bracha in every area. The more we give, the more we
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  get, because the more you clear yourself to give up with other
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  people, the more God says this is a good Ave.
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  He's fast, He's clear, He understands His purpose and His
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  earth. And therefore I'm going to load
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  him up with more so you can deliver more.
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  That's the ideal stuff with this.