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Rabbi Moshe Haber Path of the The Just -Pathways to Inspiration: Role Models and Divine Awareness 2.10.26 · Rabbi Moshe Haber - Daily Mussar/Weekly Perasha

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  The middle of this concept, which is the way a person can
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  become a highly dedicated to the service of Hashem, is by what he
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  says is staring, observing, in other words, and contemplating
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  it. Boys talk a loot a little bit
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  more than root by contemplating. That's going to make you become
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  very dedicated to Hashem also because I did what we were
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  developing yesterday is that when you really stop and think
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  about what we have, you become a warm with excitement and
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  appreciation. It's very hard to do so,
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  however. So how does he does do so you
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  have to think alone the and gather the entire mind and all
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  your thoughts, all your you developed ideas, all focusing on
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  this truth of what Hashem is given to you and the way he
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  breaks it down. Hashem is not so much for the
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  world, for the Jewish people and for you, He said.
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  This is part of the purpose of saying to Elim.
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  If you stop and you read to Elim quietly without much going on,
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  not much on your mind, you read it slowly and start reading how
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  the words apply to you, and that makes you overwhelmed with the
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  same. And you think about what the
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  words mean. Now not a lot of the words of
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  Telim don't relate to me, but the ones that do, the ones that
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  relate to the old Jewish people, that gives me a great feeling of
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  being overwhelmed and excitement.
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  Kibiotam kulambalimahavira, the common in Hasidut because from
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  the elim you have words of love of Hashem, fear of God and
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  serving God in it with Boronobam.
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  As you think about these words, loima na me tore, you will not
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  be able to hold back from being inspired.
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  Hey Tore de Gadot, great inspiration that says babe for
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  tav that I have to follow and Hastavia Mel's right servation.
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  Babia Mel was considered the greatest Hassi.
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  What's mean the greatest Hassi? It means the greatest was
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  dedicated servant of Hashem and I'm going to be like him.
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  How is that going to happen in this certain sense of it has
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  serious excitement. Hassidis I'm going to sing
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  songs. Hassim someone has love.
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  Moshe Edmond has the greatest man traveled and the greatest
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  Shaliak the different strengths. Navia metal strength was song
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  excitement that episode. The gento E la crea besi pul
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  masih hasidim bacadotta sheba ocean as well.
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  Reading stories about great people.
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  I really could call a limit or remit asek.
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  All these things inspire us. Let ya it's velasatka ma sahim
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  and ehmadi was emevoir. So he's giving you another
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  indication, another way of becoming great is when you learn
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  about stories, real stories of great people.
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  You read the given our stories of great people.
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  When you read the rabbi stories of great people, those make you
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  inspired to follow their ways. And there's a bit of a different
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  point. The original point was when you
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  look at your life and look what Hashem did for you.
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  Like I mentioned yesterday, again, inspired.
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  This point is another way to inspire you is to copy.
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  When you copy great people, when you recognize how great people
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  lived, you get excited to live their way.
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  We have this thing, we all travel to Israel.
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  We go to these simple apartments.
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  You see these rappers and you get all excited and the mind is
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  saying to yourself, there's something about the way they
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  live. Then you come back home and then
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  you know, we live in our homes, I think our homes or something
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  like a crazy house, but we all sound kind of dropped our
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  mindset while we're there, while we're seeing, then we're getting
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  all excited about the way they live as if in our mind we're
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  saying to ourselves, I want to live like them.
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  What is that thought process and how do we adapt it?
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  The thought process is this is the key for this inspiration
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  thought process is when you see great people, you hear stories
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  of great people, you hear stories of rabbis.
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  The idea is it tickles a certain part of us that says I want to
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  be like him. I know that way of life is more
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  the truth than my way. I know that that way, which
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  doesn't involve the same mundane components, it doesn't involve a
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  seem being running after this world as much and all that.
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  I feel better with that way and I feel like that way is more
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  real. My problem however, is, and I
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  come back to my life and have a lot of time adapting that way.
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  The idea of absorbing stories, like I said, real stories, not
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  pie in the sky stories, real stories of great people.
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  When you hear these stories, when you absorb these stories as
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  that a part of yourself becomes more dedicated and more
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  interested in these ideas and therefore wants to follow them.
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  Joe, that's the idea. And then over time you get more
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  used to the idea of living like them than living like this life,
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  and you get less interested in the mundane things that pull us
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  down then you would have been interested prior.
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  Instead, you drop them because you recognize as a way of life
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  as dedicated to Hashem and isn't focused on nonsense.
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  It doesn't get bogged down and that way life will drive me.
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  So he's telling you there are two different ways to be heavily
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  inspired. One way is by analyzing how much
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  Hashem has done for you and by saying to yourself, I want to
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  serve him. And the other way is by
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  analyzing how much other people live in service of Hashem and
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  saying to yourself, I want to be like them.
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  These are two different methods to make you a servant of God,
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  make you heavily dedicated in your appreciation and your
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  following of Hashem, following your inspiration or following
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  your interest in mirroring other people.
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  Now the challenge is, the question is, can we adapt the
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  ways of other great people? When you hear stories of great
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  people, what does it do for you? That's the challenge.
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  Does you? If it does, then I'll be able to
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  create more hassidut, more dedication and more service.
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  The more I get inspired by following that person, the more
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  I get motivated, the more I want to copy them.
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  But the interesting thing is, is that there's an inspiration
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  that's natural, which is just being inspired by God by
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  focusing on him. And when he's done for you, then
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  I'll make him inspire. And then there's the
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  inspiration, which is a little more copycat, which is this one,
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  however, I call a copycat, but it's not really a copycat.
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  It's you're seeing the truth. He recognizes the truth.
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  He may not have been naturally inspired like these people, but
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  you do see their way of life as more true.
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  This is the key concept. I watched him and I feel like
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  something's right about them. I watched him.
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  I feel like the sense of purity focus, not getting bogged down.
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  And there were life. So you go deeper to focus on
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  this concept. Why and how do stories of rabbis
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  make a difference? Why do we tell our children
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  stories of great people as you relate to us?
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  I'm not that person. I wasn't in that time.
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  I don't really, you know, have the exact same.
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  I can't really relate to their way of life.
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  How does it have an effect? Why do they say tell your
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  children these stories? Why do they say you want to
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  treat your children? You got shamayim, fear of
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  heaven. One of the main things is tell
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  them stories. You want to make your children
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  love Hashem, Tell them stories. But the stories don't relate to
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  us. But this is the key concept.
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  Following their way will have an impression on us.
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  So even though I may not relate to their way of life right now
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  and I definitely do not have their source of inspiration,
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  they have theirs and I have mine.
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  I hear a story about a rabbi that worked through poverty and
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  he learned without having any money or someone who gave away
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  his last dollar for charity. And these things don't really
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  relate to me. I don't have their drive to give
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  away my last dollar to help that brother of.
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  Mine don't. You have the goal and higher
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  moral standards, so you want to. So you mirror there as we leak,
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  but there's a connection, right? The point is, you may not
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  connection, you may not have their source of inspiration, but
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  you can use it's like, it's like learning something from the
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  front end or learning something from the back end.
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  You can develop the concept of yourself that would be the
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  original inspiration. Or you could just use the fact
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  that you're kind of, let's call it copycat, the way of these
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  great people and you're seeing their inspiration along with the
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  fact that you recognize that their way of life, which was
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  inspired is true. And I want to follow the fact
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  that that's true and that's genuine and that's special.
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  And that created a better, whole more wholesome existence.
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  I want to follow that existence. I may not have their
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  inspiration, but I do have a recognition of the way they
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  lived and how it's good. It's.
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  Not the care. I would be at the the feet of
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  the Hakamim. That's it.
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  And you pick up from them beyond their feet, exactly Ivanka, and
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  you pick up from them how to live.
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  And that's the key idea of a we want to become a Hasid.
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  You want to become a dedicated person, just following their way
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  of life and following what they've done.
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  A lot of times we don't know their background.
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  We don't really know how they got inspired.
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  We were on there by the upbringing.
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  We don't have an hour modern day.
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  This is a big part of the stories as well.
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  We don't really have their triggers, which means I don't
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  have, thank God. There is simplicity, right?
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  I don't live in a world where there's no money around, and
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  therefore it's a very basic way of living.
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  I don't have that. So how am I going to adopt their
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  storyline? The answer is I watched them, I
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  learned their story, and I say to myself, I want to be like
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  that story. I want to be like that outcome
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  more than I want to be like that.
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  Source. Ultimately there are two maze
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  main ways of inspiration. Following Hashem and watching
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  God's ways and getting excited about what God does for you that
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  triggers you to do more. Or following the people, the
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  great people and saying to yourself, I want to be like them
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  and that also triggers you to be more.
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  You may not have their source of inspiration, but you do have a
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  recognition and appreciation of what they've done for you that
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  makes you excited. Now let's go on to 433.
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  Are you clear? You can get excited about
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  Hashem. You feel good about witnessing a
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  great person how they lived. The problem is all of this
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  requires focus and the greatest power and two of the it's that I
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  has always been distraction. Ah, Mafsidah has to do to him
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  how to adopt. Oh no, I got what takes us away
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  from being a Hassid. I'm heavily inspired to follow
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  Hashem and to give back to Hashem what He's done for me.
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  I'm heavily inspired to be like that great man.
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  I love that way of life. I want to be like him, right?
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  That's what a role model is. Actually.
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  Role model is the second point of view.
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  But the problem is you need to focus and how issue is, it's
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  very hard to be in that frame of mind to actually see that
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  inspiration from God or see that inspiration from being like that
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  great person, Kibiyut Hazaro Taroot.
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  Our mind is very busy. Even if Baz Bidar Gotal Basaka,
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  it's completely consumed and held by our worries and by our
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  business. If Charlotte, if not, that's
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  impossible, very difficult actually, while we're busy to
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  turn to focus on this inspiration.
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  You don't have the emotion to get inspired if you're busy.
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  But if not, I'll let Vanut as a you cannot have this prophet
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  Bonanut without having a clear mind.
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  We believe Bonanut, Loya siga Hasidou.
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  You know, a person, I know a person is very worried who's
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  bogged down by 95 things going on in work, 100 things going on
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  in his home. You can't think straight.
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  You can't tell him he's inspired.
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  He hears his speech, hears something, goes in one ear, out
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  the other. Even if he's a spy at the
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  moment, he's not driven by that inspiration.
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  He definitely not going to be motivated to change his way of
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  life, the way he's living based on inspiration.
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  He needs to be with a mind that's absorbing the
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  inspiration. How does the mind absorb it?
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  Focusing on what? God different focusing.
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  Focusing on other people that he wants to follow, his role
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  models. You need that.
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  You can't have that. There's no focus.
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  You can't have that if I'm not in this world.
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  So even though I can be heavily inspired and I'm ready to be
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  heavily inspired, it's not the case if I'm not there.
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  So the ultimate core trigger of inspiration before you actually
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  get the trigger is being able to be aware, see what he's telling
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  you is this. The real reality is it's
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  actually very easy to be inspired.
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  Thank you. It's very easily doable to
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  develop and get motivated to do more.
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  The problem is you need to be present.
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  You need to be in this world and to be part of this world and
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  you're not present if you're heavily, extremely worried and
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  very nervous. Your mind is the main thing that
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  gives you inspiration to be a mind is not here and your mind
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  is worried. There's so many people out there
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  that are living lives that can easily be triggered to develop,
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  to grow, to become better. They know people around them.
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  They have great parents, they have great role models, they
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  have great rabbis, have a very clear frame of mind that they
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  can follow very easily, and they'll be driven to follow
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  those role models. But they don't even have role
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  models 'cause they don't even notice the models.
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  They're not there. This is what happens, he tells
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  us, when a person gets too consumed by their worries.
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  You don't think that worries stopped inspiration.
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  We know worries stops you from growing.
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  We know worries stops you from focus.
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  He's telling you it stops you from your inspiration, as he's
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  telling you, feeling that seagull car.
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  And even if you are inspired, the mind gets completely
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  consumed and you lose focus on your growth.
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  Even if you're inspired and even if you're on your way, the fact
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  that you're so warmer, it takes you down.
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  Venom manihot Otto le tazek bera ubava.
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  Without having a clear mind, you can't strengthen yourself to
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  serve. I shouldn't love him at the
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  fear. You can be a Hassi presence.
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  Recognizing Hashem does not rest on a person if he is a smooth,
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  which is a word for word as well.
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  Another thing that stops you from being inspired, it not only
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  worries the opposite. If you're too busy with enjoying
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  this world as well, you also don't give yourself a chance to
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  think. Keen to Him by Fatima Aleh
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  because when you get too involved in all these different
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  luxuries, you don't have a chance to think as well.
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  Your mind is not there. The so the theme for today is 2
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  points. 1 is another source of inspiration aside from focusing
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  on Hashem's great gifts to you is following great people.
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  You look, you learn, you copy, and you develop your motivation
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  to be great. And then at the same time
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  there's a major detraction detractor from being inspired,
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  and that is not being present. You can learn from great people
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  all you want. You can appreciate God's gifts
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  all you want. If you're not here, they won't
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  be absorbed. And if they're not absorbed,
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  they won't develop and they won't get you inspired.
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  Inspiration has to come into your mind, hate your heart and
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  change you. It won't if you're not here now,
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  just to focus on that. Rabbi Palmer Second, the role
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  model point. The idea is you're inspired by
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  watching their way of life, even though you don't know literally
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  their inspiration itself. Which means you look at a
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  person. We do this all the time.
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  You look at somebody, say that person seems to be a beautiful
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  existence. I like the way they're living.
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  I don't know how they got there. I don't know what drives them,
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  but I like the way of living. A role model is a combination of
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  a person whom you feel like you want to be like done in their
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  dedication to Hashem, being a good person.
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  But also partially this, the reality, we have to admit this,
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  it's partially the fact that we like the simplicity.
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  We appreciate the beauty of their life as well.
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  We're not just saying I want to be a good Jew when I see that
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  great person. It's also the fact that you kind
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  of see their life and say to yourself, I wish I had that.
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  What do you wish you had? The simple apartment, right?
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  Their basic life. You wish you had that.
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  No, you wish you had a simplicity that was part of your
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  life and that creates the role model element, which means the
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  role model really is not just a person whom you want to be like
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  them because of their dedication to Hashem.
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  It's actually you want to be like the whole picture.
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  There's a certain hand, there's certain simplicity, there's a
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  certain beauty to their life these days of I wish I had that.
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  That wishing is basically pulling you into an inspiration,
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  even though you don't have their source, but you do have the
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  copic. An element like myself when I
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  went to Israel and I say to myself, I wish I could move into
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  that old city. Do I really wish I could live in
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  the old city and not have a car that can get to my home and not
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  have? I can't imagine it's reality,
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  but I do wish that I can adopt that level of simplicity and
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  beauty and keep the shock. So that's really what role
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  models do for you. They can't pull you in from
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  their source of inspiration because that was theirs, not
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  mine. And that got them to their
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  level. And it won't get me to my level
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  because I didn't see their inspiration.
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  But I piggyback on their way of life.
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  And that means I like their beauty, service of Hashem, but I
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  also like the whole picture. I like their simplicity.
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  I like their hand, I like their dedication.
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  I like their way of life. I like their Shalom.
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  I like them not getting bogged down by all the American things
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  that we get bogged down with all the news and all the nonsense
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  and all the competition and community issues and these
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  things. I like the no tuition.
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  I like the whole frame like you. The simplicity of their life.
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  That's really do they didn't know all that garbage that's
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  going on in the world. They don't know it, but they may
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  have their own garbage. But Even so, politics in Israel
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  from my vantage point, from my vantage point, that looks
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  beautiful and that pulls me in, even though I don't have their
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  original Pope. So you therefore have ordered me
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  alive. Two sources of inspiration.
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  You have your direct relationship with a chef that
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  inspires you, but that gets you only so far.
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  Then there's another one which basically allows you to start
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  halfway in, allows you to jump without needing to fully
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  develop, which is just a copycat concept, but a beautiful one,
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  which says I like what they're doing, I want to be like them,
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  even though I may not have their inspiration, their source of
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  inspiration, but I do have a drive to live their life, this
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  life. The same way when you look back
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  at the old days and you say to yourself, if only I could have
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  my parents way of life, my way of life as a kid, all those
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  things. And it drives you.
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  And it's a little bit of a sketch because that got them to
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  their point. But we live in a different
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  world. We're getting to a different
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  point. We can't really develop in their
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  way with our world. So instead we use a copycat
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  mentality which drives us to be like them without their source.
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  That's the same exact idea as a role model for us, a rabbi from
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  the 1800s. Same story, tanto process,
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  copycat idea to be like them without their drive.
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  And combined with our own inspiration and our copy kind of
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  inspiration, we can get ourselves further.
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  The same way they tell, you know, yeshiva boys about
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  learning a certain amount of hours a day like they did in the
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  old days. And in the old days they had a
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  horse and buggy. They had nothing going on.
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  They had nothing in life in that sense.
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  And therefore it was easier to lend their land on ours.
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  Today it's harder, but that still drives them the same way
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  they tell you, although the same way they tell you about certain
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  people doing certain resed in a simple village world where there
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  was a much more simple resed. And today this is more
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  complicated. Or the fact that in the old
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  days, people used to visit the Sycamore and today you're doing
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  different types of resed, but you still want to be like them
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  because you want to keep that way of life even though you may
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  not have that same drive as they did.
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  And that's how life goes. And hopefully that makes us the
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  greatest form of ourselves. I'll stop with this.