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Rabbi Moshe Haber- Perashat Va'ethanan The Gift of Life: Cultivating Gratitude 8.8.25 · Rabbi Moshe Haber - Daily Mussar/Weekly Perasha

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  But from opera shot made hanan. So I have a question, please,
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  says I begged Hashem. You've started to show us you're
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  a great Mike and no one's like you in the whole world and
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  you're showing your strength and therefore Hashem amazed me every
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  now can I please the artist can at least see the land out of
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  Asher baby again a heart out of azer have I live unknown Hashem
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  Musher says I begged Hashem I plead with him to be able to go
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  into the land to go to see the land, which means Musher ever
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  really wanted to be able to live to go in there to sell and via
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  Khanan. We know there's a gematria.
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  He prayed was it 515 * 100 and 100 times he begged pleaded and
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  really went to the fullest extent to pray to go into the
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  land and we know as opposed to says he was not allowed.
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  He was told the answer is no, he cannot go in even though he
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  prayed so much. This is the opening of the
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  parishah Mushi Italians, the Jewish people.
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  So my question is why do Bunai is so need to know this?
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  Why does it need to be told that I begged and I pleaded to go in.
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  They're going in, they're going on without him.
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  What is his purpose and his closing message and tell them
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  how much he bet. And the way he says it is that
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  it's Hannan or she says and hanun ELA bikoma komala.
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  So matanatrinam. I asked for Matanatrinam, which
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  as she explains means he might say, I don't believe I deserve
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  it. I'm not calling because of any
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  credit. I'm just asking Hashem, can you
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  please grant me the gift of going in?
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  I begged for that, I pleaded for it and I was not.
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  I was not answered. I was not accepted.
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  Why is he asking? Why is he telling them that he
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  is? That's my question.
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  See, it's a gift. I think it's time based, very
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  important concept. That's what we want to build.
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  I'm a shit. Everybody trying to tell them
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  you're going in, I'm not going in.
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  I want you to know and what you're doing and the life you're
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  about to live is completely and totally a gift.
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  It's not deserved in the slaves. If I'm what should have been
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  who, if anyone deserves to go in, it's me.
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  I did everything in my power to lead, to go in there, to stay.
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  In fact, I'm the reason in a certain sense.
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  I did see how much I am, which is on its way that it's so I'm a
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  town Surah or just on its way. I led the people in the desert,
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  which is all the cause of going in.
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  So I am the reason if anyone deserves to go and it's me and
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  even myself. I understood from my words, you
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  could see I understood that I did not deserve and you know
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  what, I was not even granted the right.
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  So I recognize that it's all a gift and I want you to know that
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  for you as well. It's Madnatri Nam.
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  The vinayas are going in. Don't take it for granted.
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  It's all a gift. And what should have been to
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  answer, he says I asked Hashem to at least see.
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  Hashem said you can't go in, but you can see the madash.
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  It's well, no madash. The Musharraf said that I'll go
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  in any form. You don't want me to go in as a
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  leader. I won't go in as a leader.
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  In fact, Musharraf and only really prayed fully after your
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  Schwab menu was chosen while you wait for that moment, because
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  you understood that. I understand you don't want me
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  to be the leader anymore. I got that.
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  But let me go in as a regular person.
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  Let me go on just part of the crew.
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  Madasha was further Mushiya been said let me go in any form any
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  form meant let me even go in. Let me be a bird that flies and
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  sees an animal that can see. I just want to see.
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  I want to be there. I want to live there.
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  Hashem said no, no, why he's telling this to the people he
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  wants me to understand. Don't take what you're about to
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  do for granted and then he said my prayer is can I see the land.
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  Hashem says that yes again the same question Why is that
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  important? Why do we have this thing?
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  The Monticello saw the land, Avajavino also.
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  His original trip was to travel the land and the sea.
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  He didn't live there, He didn't stay there.
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  Again, the same concept. Why I should never definitely
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  did not settle the land as they need to sail.
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  Same concept. What's the need to see?
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  The need to see is a similar idea is to appreciate the beauty
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  of the connection of the gift, to recognize how much is a gift.
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  That's another example of that beauty.
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  I'll give you a third example. Well, Shabeno later on the
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  Prasad a middle of this speech, Pasuk says he establishes the
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  three cities of Mcloth. He establishes the three cities
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  of Mcloth. Then Benesa of course to Jordan
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  and he establishes those cities. Why does he establish those
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  cities? Says about she?
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  Because he wants to do a mitzvah and one second.
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  What's the law? The law is 6 main ear McCloud
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  right 6 total 3 all across Jordan and three in the lane. 3
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  in the lane is nothing to get to The three of course of Jordan
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  are connected to three in the lane.
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  All together there are 6. The way it works is you
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  establish these three, then you have the three in the land.
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  Once a three in the are established, these three go into
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  effect. So Moshe Abano, in a sense was
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  starting something. Starting him.
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  His father would take years for it to be completed away after he
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  passed away. So why is he doing this same
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  idea? He wants to partake somewhat and
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  then it's finally to sail. He can't get in there.
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  He can't even establish Jeremy Cloth over there.
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  So he's established the three over here, which will be
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  connected and which will take effect when he established the
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  three over there. They'll be connected.
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  And again, it's an indication how much he wants to have some
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  relationship, some connection to the land.
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  And he's telling this all to Banana Cell.
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  He's showing this all to Banana Cell so that they don't take it
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  for granted. And why is this so important
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  that Banana Cell learned this lesson, not taking it for
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  granting? Here's the key.
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  I think the key is like this. The nature and the tone of the
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  Jewish people in the desert overall was the tone.
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  If we go negative, always the tone, a tone up complaining.
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  And Michelle Bennu wants to undo that tone.
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  He wants to change that nature and he wanted to say you've been
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  complaining. The essence of complaining is if
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  you go to the core of complaining.
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  I have what I have, but I feel better missing this.
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  I'm upset that I'm missing that I don't really appreciate what I
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  have itself. That's the essence of
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  complaining. When I complain about having
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  cheese but not having locks, what I'm saying is I have cheese
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  that I don't, that I appreciate premise locks.
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  I complain about having dairy, not having meat.
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  I'm saying is I don't really recognize the dairy.
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  I said I missed the meat. I complain about living in
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  Brooklyn, not living in deal. I said I recognize the fact that
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  I live in Brooklyn, but I'm missing deal and vice versa.
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  Same idea. Any complaining in itself, the
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  tone of complaining what it is, is taking for granted what you
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  have and missing out and feeling bad what you don't have.
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  That's the essence of complaining.
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  The core of anyone that complaints, that is exactly what
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  they're doing. Someone complaints about the
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  train, someone complaints about that car ride.
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  What they are doing is they're taking you for granted what
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  exists and they are miss feeling bad for what doesn't exist in
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  their hands right now. Well share.
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  Beno understood. That was the mentality of being
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  yourself. That's been that mentality and
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  that's what got them into their problems.
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  I have to change the mentality for good.
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  And therefore, he gives his speech and it lays out to them
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  how much, how many times he has prayed to go in.
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  What's he telling them? Whatever you're about to do,
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  don't take for granted anymore. Going forward, get this tone out
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  of your system. If you're going into a land,
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  it's all a gift. You're going to live there for
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  years. Everything that you have there,
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  cherish because it's all not really meant to stay.
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  And it's all brand new. And I think for us today, we're
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  back. Many of us are in the
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  complaining mode. We have a nature to always look
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  at what's missing. I always feel what's not here.
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  That is our nature. We're inclined that way because
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  of what we see. We're inclined that way because
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  of what other people have and we don't have.
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  And that mindset creates this constant sort of sadness.
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  While things are great, which is the biggest shame.
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  We have a great life. We give a blessed life, but a
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  certain tone of you wake up in the morning, you're wondering
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  like what's missing or what's going to happen and what's you
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  know, the void and that that that wiring is based on this
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  sort of complaining structure. Again, taking it for granted.
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  We have and only seeing we don't have that is the wiring that
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  people live with today and what should have been and wanted to
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  get this out of Banaya solar system because that led to the
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  challenge in the desert and he wants to lead to blessing and
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  some ha in the land. It's time to change this wiring
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  and the way to change that wiring is recognize and
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  appreciate what you have and stop there.
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  Stop only looking at what's missing and therefore having
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  both flaws, not appreciating and being sad for what's missing.
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  Do the opposite. Recognize what you have and you
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  have neither challenge. You don't really notice what's
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  missing and you do appreciate what you have.
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  That is a different wiring entirely and it's a whole
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  different outcome. Instead of sadness and this sort
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  of feeling of I'm looking to that the other thing, and I
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  don't really feel settled. Look at what you have.
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  Look inward and there's a degree of Saha that comes from the same
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  life. There's a different mindset.
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  That's what you have been on. His goal.
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  It's a basic concept. My Chevy understood it could
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  change the shape of the Jewish people.
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  I LED them in the desert. I did all that, but they closed
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  with the mindset of wiring. I'm complaining.
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  It's time to shift gears and it's time to come with different
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  outcomes because he knew if they continue, that same mindset,
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  same flaws will continue. That's how it works when a
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  person's a complainer, they run into the same bumps.
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  Mushevana says these words, He says these words.
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  He says, you know, set it on the land.
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  When you have children and grandchildren, we know Chantem
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  bought it. No, Chantem means settle really
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  deeply. Settle on the land, reach Khatem
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  and then we're going to go astray.
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  Vazi 10 peso to not call. You can start doing things you
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  do bad when you know Chantem, when you settle.
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  Haidoth Ibrahim, I'm testifying to you today that things will go
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  bad, it will be punishment, et cetera.
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  Once we settle lo terehunya MI Malaya, we will not be able to
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  remain on the land. Christian will destroy us.
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  And then he says these words. Please listen, all right?
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  And he says musha Marta ET rukar VED mitzvotava sharnohim.
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  Instead, listen to these laws that'll be good for your
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  children and grandchildren. You want to remain on the land
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  Hashem gives you all the days. What are these words?
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  All the days Hashem gives you the land.
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  What are the meaning of the words?
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  All of this has to clean our car.
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  All the days means every single day on that land as a gift
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  Hashem is giving with you today and then tomorrow Hashem gave it
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  to you. Ayom, each day is a new gift,
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  each day is a new existence. And if you want to have a
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  different outcome and the outcome of Venora Shantem, you
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  want to have a different outcome, the outcome of settling
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  and therefore complaining and therefore problems.
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  See each as a gift, see each moment as a gift, and see each
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  part of our life as a special, unique gift.
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  And that's really the wiring that has to change in order to
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  have some high life. It's nothing more than
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  understanding. I look inward.
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  I appreciate I don't take it for granted.
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  Instead of only looking to over there.
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  And now I recognize that it's here.
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  I lived over here and I recognize I should have been
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  understood. I have to change the wiring.
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  Let me show up in yourself how much I'm dying to live there and
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  like I'm being held back. And then they can appreciate the
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  call. I mean, which means a regular
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  Jew during that time was granted a greater gift than
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  Mashhadapeno. And to him now is meant to show
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  them your life is completely and totally a chemist.
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  I think this is very important for all of us to appreciate.
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  Now. Step one is for ourselves.
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  Well, we wake up every morning and you sell more than any.
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  It's exactly as the opening. It has to change.
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  How to change our worry in our mindset.
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  We have a nature, for whatever reason, to see what's missing.
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  To want that and to feel like I wish I had that just the way we
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  are. It can go to I want the next
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  season or can go I want the next car, I want the next home, or I
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  want my children to be better than they are.
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  All these things are all the same unhealthy wire and the same
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  thing. It's not coming from a good
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  place. If someone wants to raise their
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  children better like I would, but someone disappointed in
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  their children, often times it comes in this thing, this sort
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  of unhappy, unsettled with what we had, the most important thing
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  we can have. It changed every element of our
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  life. It gives you more patience for
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  your children. It gives you a great
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  appreciation for your job, for your family, for your home, for
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  your situation, whatever you're dealing with.
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  It gives you all of that, the much more settled mindset when
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  you stop and you're looking where I'll give you an example.
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  I'm close to this. So this past Wednesday, for
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  whatever reason, I don't know why this happens once in a
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  while, but I had I, I, when I went to bed, I reflected on my
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  day. I can't believe how many
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  accountants I had. I would drive at home this
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  lesson, I'll give you like 6 of them.
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  First of all, all the times in the morning, I learned with
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  individual and we get more details than this.
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  I learned with an individual who faced one of the greatest
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  challenges this past year, OK with his family.
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  That's the starters, that's the open.
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  Then what was the second thing? The second thing was after that,
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  I'm sitting there learning a Lakewood and a friend of mine
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  shows up and ties me on the shoulder.
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  Who is this guy? It's old trouble down mine, he
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  says. You know, I'm really
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  overwhelmed. I'm really tired now.
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  I said why, what's going on? I had known the story, just
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  didn't know how overwhelming it was.
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  I had a baby about six weeks ago and the baby was born with a
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  heart defect. Mentally, the baby's fine.
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  Born with a heart defect, baby was born, had to be born in CHOP
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  'cause they knew before I had to be born in Philadelphia.
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  And what does that mean? That means the baby was born a
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  week in a week or so after being born, remaining in CHOP.
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  I had to do an open heart surgery on the baby and then had
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  stay for recovery. It's six weeks.
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  How's he the baby still there? Eventually the hope is to bring
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  home and then I have to go back for another one and then go back
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  for another surgery. And there's multiple surgery
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  babies to go through for the first year in order to get to
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  Norm. It's a regular guy, a wonderful
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  guy. He's my friend for a long time.
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  And he's now, he's lives in Lakewood.
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  He has to travel now. He, his wife and his
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  mother-in-law, they take a day and travel and spend a day and
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  travel. This is his day.
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  OK, I'm looking at this guy normally bears the money and we
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  can relax, chill, take it easy, which we normally do every
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  summer for him. He has no banners in money.
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  But there's no life. This is life.
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  OK, fine. That was actually medicine
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  number one. Then another thing happened and
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  I'm telling you I don't want to go depress us, but it was just a
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  thingy of the thing of thing. The other thing was you told me
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  about the story with the with the girl and what happened on
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  the Shabba, right. We heard that story fine.
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  The girl as he thought of aneurysm.
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  She's going to be better community girl on the Shabba.
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  And like I'm just hearing you think of the thing I'm saying to
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  the show. I guess it's pretty safe.
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  And then I, I come here and after the night learning and
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  then whatever and had a conversation with few
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  individuals, different people talking about jobs.
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  And I had a counter with three people about their jobs.
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  We're not sure exactly where their business is going to go.
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  And I try they can make ends meet.
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  Three people over the coast of the night.
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  Then I go to visit my mother. OK, that's one point of night.
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  And she does what you hear. I said where you hear what I
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  heard So and so heard with the fire.
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  So we're talking about Charles. We had a person in the community
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  and we know very well where the fire in the home on Shabbat
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  before the Shabbat. You're shocked.
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  And to me, I right away I got you in low marriage and to me, I
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  got into my car and this really changed my whole mindset.
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  I called the person, I had a conversation with him and his
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  wife in the car. And have you heard their tone?
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  It was everything. The tone was everything you wish
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  the person could think, which means I think with the Hashem
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  that we're all good, we're alive, it's only our own.
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  That doesn't matter. We're thankful for this, we're
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  thankful for that. We're thankful for timing.
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  We're thankful who someone was able to wake us up.
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  We're thinking about everything and they're just going on and
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  on. And I'm listening to that.
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  I'm saying to myself that mindset is literally this
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  mindset as we all wish to have the head, which is the most
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  healthy, clear head, and we never want to have any
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  challenge. Absolutely not.
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  But the mindset is something that a person needs to adapt,
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  appreciative, happy, besimah, thankful, gratitude and not
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  taking this granted. And yes, it sounds so basic and
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  yes, we try to drive it home, but should I have been
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  understood? The only way I could show Benet
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  So the truth is when they witness a man who's the leader
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  of the people, who if anyone deserves to go and he deserves
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  to go in, who begged, pleaded, came up with creative ideas to
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  Hashem to try to figure ways to get in and still couldn't get in
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  so that they see for them it's all Magna chinam.
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  We have to go to look at our own lives and say everything that we
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  have is a gift. It's all a gift.
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  Our family, our children, our health, our home, our job, our
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  community, our health. It's all a gift.
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  It's not really deserved. It doesn't take away from who we
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  are, but just takes away from our current or our natural
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  mindset. For some odd reason, the natural
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  brain looks outward, but the real brain, the successful,
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  productive, happy brain could look inward.
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  And sometimes you have to look at other people and see what
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  they're going through. But your child, they're all
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  going to get out of their problems.
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  All of them can get out of it and they're always at the ship.
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  When you look at them and you look at them the right way, you
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  understand and recognize that all we have is a gift and it
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  changes our mindset and it changes our approach to life.
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  So I'm going to show them on it says shift beneath the mid barn.
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  They had 40 years, but at a very rough tone.
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  The next history, we want to change the tone.
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  And I told it to be a ton of happiness.
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  That's what stops.