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Rabbi Moshe Haber Orchot Saddiqim: The Five Avenues of Greatness 7.1.26 · Rabbi Moshe Haber - Daily Mussar/Weekly Perasha

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The third stage of this introduction as he convinces us
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to develop ourselves. The first one is the
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significance of Yashimaya. The second one is the
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recognition of how powerful and capable man is and how much you
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are the purpose of existence. Now how much this is the
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breakdown of how we could develop a person and realizing
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that man has five senses that the ability here shaniqua roots.
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Secondly, the ability to see. Thirdly, the the ability to
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smell, the ability to taste, the ability to touch that's touchy
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when you feel things. These five senses, they're not
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just five things that the body has him Kolim.
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They include call Masiada. Everything that you do is
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through these 5 means the end In PU la Nazi, it was now one
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single action that you can do outside of using these 5 powers.
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All right. If you can't, one can't speak,
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one can't hear, one can't smell it, one can't taste it, one
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can't touch. They cannot do anything.
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Valev And all these five senses are powered by the heart, who
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are poor. El Ali the hand, the heart is
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the one that guides all these five things.
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All these five senses, they bring things toward the heart,
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and the heart brings things to there.
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And the mind is what he says and mind and thoughts follow these
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things, which means when we say the heart, we mean the heart
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connected to the mind has many different thoughts.
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Keep going. Let's talk about this now.
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So first you have the five senses, now you have the person,
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the human being is to do the feelings, which means emotions
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have many different ways. Keep going.
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Hagava the another arrogant humility, Zekaron remembrance,
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but she kind of forgetting how you're going.
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Sadness less of heart and happiness.
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Habuja embarrassment, the azut, which is, you know, brazing this
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lack of care and lack of embarrassment.
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Nikkei, Elisha, Nabon, he's telling you that man's functions
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functions in five different ways.
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And man's emotions are many different ways.
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We call elhad, the OTT mitraschot, mecha meshet,
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alcohol. And the way it works is you can
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actually empower and strengthen these different emotions through
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the different means of things that come your way or leave you
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through this original 5 senses. So the five senses are way more
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powerful than you think, which means if you, let's take an
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example, your emotion of being happy, very often it comes from
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or you hear that brings emotion of happiness or what you say or
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what you smell. Smell, we know, creates a major
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emotion. That's the idea of perfume.
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It creates an emotion. That's the idea of daughters.
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And our daughter actually clone these things.
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They create emotions and it's telling you you have the five
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faculties and you have these are really 5 avenues towards the
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makeup of who you are. They first of all, they channel
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everything that you do and they also make up your emotions, OK?
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They go to yours. They do, yes.
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They all go into your body, into your soul.
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Notches in your physical body. They go into your soul as well.
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I'll give you a classic example we have in Tanakh of where the
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five sentences are an Ave. to the soul.
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Most classic example I know of is Oyako Aveeno when he when he
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has when it's rock was old and soon when it passed away, he
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asked for food. I'm as elderly son yourself.
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Why do you ask the food and then what happened the son instead it
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was the Arcov who came in with that food and then it's rock
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feels that son. In fact, she said and then he
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smells him. He said I smell got a then
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right. What's the recognition of these
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things feeling? He thought it was his heart.
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It turns out to be Arcov and he smells and he says smoking him.
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And then when Isal finally came in and he says yeah, yeah, no,
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see what's the significance? Significance is before is Hakavi
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blessed his son, whom he thought was his son.
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He needed to bless him from his soul.
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He needed to bless him through God.
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And the way he was going to bless him throughout by say is
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by having his soul aroused. I have in his soul being
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inspired. And the way his soul was going
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to be inspired was by having those senses woken up by these
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different means, which means, for example, a good smell, a
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good touch, a good taste. He didn't care for food.
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That was not even his purpose is that I'm hungry, I need food.
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His purpose was he wanted that his senses would be aroused.
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We'd be woken up by these different feelings, by the food,
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by the smell, by the touch, by a call, call you a call by what he
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heard, right. All these different emotions,
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these all different ways of inspiring not the body, rather
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the soul. Which means these are all the
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avenues of your soul. Yeah, We know them as avenues of
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our body. We understand.
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You're a good song that makes you happy, right?
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Easy. Nice.
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That makes you got a person excited.
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Fine, those are the body, but they're also true about the
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soul. Literally the exact same thing.
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These channels are what guides you, and to make you, they're
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through about 3 areas. They're true about your body and
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true about your soul, and they're true about your emotion.
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Is that different things? All right, your body gets
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excited by these five different channels.
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Fine, your soul gets excited by these five different avenues,
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right? You think of you, You see
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something inspiring, your soul gets exciting.
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You hear words of red Surah, your soul gets lifted up.
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You taste something that sudhav killusha, it helps your soul.
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It's matamim of Shabbat. Onyx Shabbat literally lifts up
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your soul. It's a real thing.
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Kosher binaca lifts up your soul, right?
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You touch something that's kadosh.
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It's inspiring for your soul. And if you say something holy,
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it lifts up your soul. That's the soul, the body we
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know. And the emotion is just the
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same, which means emotionally you get excited.
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If someone gives you a compliment, you get hurt,
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someone gives you an insult, you feel good.
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If you say something, it's smart, right?
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Emotionally, you feel. It's a person's certain feeling
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when they smell something, right?
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When they touch something, right?
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All this different things. So in three areas, the areas
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that make up a person, a body, the soul, and even the mental
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body, the emotion, the all three guided, developed and built
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based on these five faculties. And if you trust that, you
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realize that your job is to be in control and to dictate where
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those senses go. Are they all equal?
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Are they all equal power meaning?
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Meaning right, We know eating cut if is very bad for.
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You right. Is eating cut if and looking at
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something bad the same or hearing something bad because
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they all gateways to your soul? Good, fair question.
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I was looking at it as you know, as you said, well, I think
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there's a small difference, which is that here is something
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wrong a certain sense he go in and go out.
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Even though the Imara says that these things stick with you.
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We all know that. And the rabbi is talking about
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the fact that certain children didn't didn't grow up properly
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because they were very they grew around the wrong music.
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Understood, But tariff goes into the body physically and sits
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there and we have a concept called once it goes again, Tim
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tu Malev right. It makes the person Dumber,
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makes the person denser. Literally when they eat on
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kosher, it makes them dense and so the answer probably is that
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eating on kosher that Ave. or just taste and strong and taste
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probably more severe than other areas.
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That means, but general for his point of view.
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It's all the same what he's telling you right here to all
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the same theme. A person has to realize I need
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to be in control all these five senses because as I strive to
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become a better person, I need to realize a great day.
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If you realize that these five senses are my means of
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greatness, OK, call ada and above any person who's striving,
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any person with the heart, Ishta del bicol coho le aguila ET
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athlete as you call aguila Sigma alot.
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Every person wants to strive the greatest value isht Amish per
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Commission to Kokotov, a person should not allow any of his five
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sentences to be used over the top of my top and love the
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devolish with Sarik Leo, no doubt, but hassle them.
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I seem to be just to make you a better person.
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In other words, to weigh in the angle.
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The perspective a person can have to grow is not just say I'm
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striving for growth and for greatness.
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Rather say every part of my makeup I want to use to make me
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a better person. I want to watch what I look at.
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It's not just to avoid sin, but rather to realize that my eyes
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are an unbelievably powerful gift and tool that can create
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greatness and I want to use them toward that greatness.
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I want to watch what I listen to.
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Again, not only because it's negatively impactful, hearing
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the wrong music or hearing the wrong, you know, inappropriate
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language. It's also because those ears are
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an Ave. to bring into yourself everything that you have.
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All your knowledge comes through your ears or what you see,
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right? Those two tracks are major
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tracks in the powers of greatness.
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The difference between an unbelievably great person and a
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single person is what do they see and what they hear over the
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course of time. So you're not just avoiding sin
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and avoiding wasting your time. You're also realizing these
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avenues of greatness. In other words, you don't just
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want to commit to being a great person, you want to channel
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every one of these senses for greatness thinking.
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What tells us about a sermon rabbi whose mother used to take
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him outside the benedash is a baby.
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And the purpose was that you say you can listen to the vertura.
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That's the thing when I tell this, OK, and you say it's a
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what? He's a baby, he's in a carriage,
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doesn't make a difference. But he hears the words.
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He hears the words. They go into the soul.
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That's a reality that's very, very real.
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Is that a real thing? Absolutely real thing.
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The vertura and positive things going to the soul and wow, 100%
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going to the soul. And it's a very interesting
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thing, which is about that rabbi, I believe his name is
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Yoshua Bear. Look it up, David, who the rabbi
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was. But I why?
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Wouldn't everyone bring little kids?
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They should, and I don't know why.
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I know what else didn't think about his time, but this Rabbi,
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especially this what's interesting is is that the
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Rabbi, whatever he rules, he says these words Shamati I heard
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he doesn't just say he says Shamati, I heard.
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What is it to say, so to speak that my ears are a very special
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channel of hearing my ears specifically because my ears
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from an early age, we utilize the greatness.
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So therefore, if your your baby's around, right, a baby, I
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have a grandchild, they're around and there's fighting in
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the house. You don't want that, but that's
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going to go into the ears. We have this piece in the home
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with this dividend in the home and he's saying these stuff.
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What does it matter? He's a baby.
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He doesn't doesn't matter what he sees, doesn't matter what he
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hears. According to this, it does.
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But there's these channels are channels of everything that made
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as we are, the five senses of five senses of greatness.
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They're not simply 5 senses of functionality, they're 5 senses
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of greatness. That's what he's telling you are
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there. Things you can't smell because
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then. Yeah, smelling well, we and it
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comes to the topic of Eva inappropriate smelling Ketota
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was not a problem. Smelling ketota was a great
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thing, but when it came to the topic of of Eva inappropriate
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walking past a woman has a very strong smell is considered a
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topic of a youth a degree of it. Why?
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Because the same thing when it comes to the topics of doing
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immorality. We apply these five senses.
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Let's play them out. Touch, right?
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Person touching another woman is based on this concept.
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Touch, sight, Seeing something inappropriate, smell.
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Is this concept right? Hearing Kolisha right.
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What are all these things? They're all and talking to them.
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They're all the exact same thing, he says.
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So technically speaking, there's something wrong.
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What's wrong? Not doing anything, but based on
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this concept, they all carry what they are.
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They're channels to closeness. The way it works is, is that God
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gave us these 5 means. Every person has these 5 means
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as a way to connect. These are ways to connect to the
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Torah, to other people, to inappropriate things, to good
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things. Connection.
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The human capability and the forms of connection are through
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these five senses. Excuse me.
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This is how you connect. You can connect to a person by
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calling, calling them up and talk to them and they live in
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Israel. You call them and you have a
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connection. You have a strong connection
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because you spoke to them through the voice.
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You can connect to them through. Here is something I have to say.
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You can connect to them to touch and have to smell additive,
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taste, these all real things. Connection is a real form and
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it's done through these different means.
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And because that's the case when it comes to positively, it's the
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case when it comes to immorality.
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Same thing. That's why we have these
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different borderline arao to based on these concepts.
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That's why they tell you they came out of says if a person
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sees this on a woman, it's considered immorality.
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Where's the immorality of anything wrong?
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The answer is it's a degree of wrongful connection.
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And the same thing is true. And the positive light is the
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degree of when a grandchild comes and a grandparent hugs
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that grandchild, that's connection.
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That's strong connection. What is that?
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That is a feeling that you cannot describe.
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And that feeling is a feeling of closeness.
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So God gave us a human being. You know, in a sense, you're
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alone. You're very much an alone
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person. On the other hand, you're very
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much part of society and you connect.
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And our job is to utilize all these tools to literally connect
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to the right things. When someone says I love Tura,
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you love Tura, I love tura, what does that mean you love Tura?
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That really means through these forms he created a connection
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through listening to looking through speaking, through
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understanding, through that he created a connection that
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actually made Turat to him a connection, a physical
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connection. When someone says I love Hashem,
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right? You can't love God is not a
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physical thing. But you spoke to him in a sense
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you heard him in a sense you saw him.
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Where's the smell come in? Smell does not exactly good
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point. I don't know the answer to that
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fair question, but in a sense, you heard him and therefore you
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connected to God. And it's a real, real thing.
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And someone says he's so obsessed with God, you, you
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never saw him. Yeah, I did.
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In my eyes, when I saw a miracle, I saw God.
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When I saw things happen in the world, I saw God.
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And that became for me a means of connection.
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That's how life is. Every person is in a world that
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you can connect. And that's why you can't
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understand why certain people are so dedicated to today.
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They don't care about other things.
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And serious, they connected more, they spoke more to Torah,
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they learnt more Torah, they listened more.
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And that actually made them, you know, you like your wife,
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person, like their wife more than other women because they
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connected more to their wife, right?
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You like your children more than other kids.
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When two kids get into a fight, you cannot see fault in your
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child. You could see fault in other
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kids always, right? Because you are naturally
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connected to your children. And the same thing as true
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Torah. When people study, learn and
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listen and connected to her, they actually have a higher
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level of connection and therefore they can ignore other
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things that go on in the world. To them, it doesn't matter.
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Someone told me a couple of weeks ago regarding something
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political in the community and they said if only those people
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will learn a little more Torah, they would get out of that
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fight. So what are you talking about?
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The concept is this. When you study Torah more, you
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become more focused on that, and you become therefore less
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focused on the gava of positions and the talk and the pride
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involved, all those things. Because if you're more connected
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here, you're less connected there overall.
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This is the theme. This is why it says that a
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person should not be so materialistically LinkedIn this
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world and try to sell it. So that's not going to work.
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Nothing wrong with having a nice house because they weren't
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having a nice car. Nothing wrong with, you know,
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enjoying vacations. The issue is the connection.
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That's the issue and that's usually what happens when a
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person indulges. And that's why you say, if you
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want to say tada, you shouldn't indulge.
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Not because indulging is wrong on its own, right, but it takes
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you away. It links you here, but that's
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another level. But first it links you here and
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then if we separate you from there, and I've, I've seen this
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time and again when a guy gets busy, I'll give you an example.
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He had the bait and Michael at one point, which was there were
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guys who had call the other guys who had some savings saved up
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and they were homes available by a little tiny house in Jackson.
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This is 10 years ago, homes available in Jackson for
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$300,000, right? And a bunch of guys bought homes
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in Jackson for that amount of money and they used their
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savings on that. And great at the time
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personally, I said I didn't have the money anyway, but I said I
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wouldn't do it. I didn't do it, so the
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discussion was why? Which one?
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My opinion was for a learning guide.
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The moment you go down that road, now that you could say
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you're setting yourself up, you could say you're being
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responsible, which is very much a fair argument.
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I'm not disagreeing with the argument at all, right?
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You create an income, reform income, all great, but in my
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humble opinion is a high level. But in my opinion, the moment
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the guy becomes a real estate guy, he's out.
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His mind is in two places and he's out.
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That was my personal opinion at the time.
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Every guy knows you know yourself, right?
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I knew I knew it myself if I had to every day check my, you know,
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deal with the tenants and deal with different things.
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I'm not saying today, today I'm dealing with six things, right?
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And it's just my lot of life. I was forced into it.
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But technically speaking, do I believe that a person who has a
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singular focus and therefore a singular connection is better
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off when it comes to starting to absolutely.
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Is everyone able to do that? No, but if the guy is in Colell
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and he made a life's choice, then while he made that life's
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choice, I would personally say he shouldn't make 2 life's
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choice at the same time. Even though it might seem more
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responsible and even though it might be seem more of a long
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long term planning, it might seem so.
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But in this area he's facing this challenge which is he might
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be linked to two places. I'm not saying he's
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automatically going to have a connection to a house in
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Jackson. Connection might not be there,
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but naturally it happens. I've seen it and it's true.
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The reality is. Most of these guys ended up out
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of Kolel faster than the ones that didn't buy the house, even
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though they were more set up just the way it is and you can
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imagine them a concept. I think it's very clear a
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singular focus is a singular focus, but deeper than that is
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this theme. This theme is connection.
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Human being has the power of connection through these five
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tools and you therefore want to use them the right way and never
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allow them to go the wrong way. Which means the reversing gets
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heavily involved if it's a big time foodie, right?
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Nothing wrong with being a foodie, technically speaking,
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but chances are that guy's a little obsessed with food, OK?
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And he might be taking himself away from the power of
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connection through taste in other areas.
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What can I taste that's holy taste?
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Shabbat food? Yeah, it's a real thing.
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You taste something of Kitty Shah.
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That's a real means of holiness in the world of Khasidut in the
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Hasidim, Right? Tasting something from a holy
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place by them is literally tippy top.
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We don't live a life that way that much, but it's a true
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concept. Tasing something that's holy,
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that's great. If a person's busy on a Tuesday
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night having like we said yesterday, disgusting us a
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having a surprise take for $300, he's actually mis channeling and
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his connection on face. That's how it goes.
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The same thing as you choose what you hear, what you see,
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what you smell and what you speak, is the idea.
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Saying a sham put, you know, beautiful things in the world
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and tasting this part of a connection and OK.
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Fair question. That's fair question.
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Besides him, in the beginning he asked that question.
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So he said in the beginning, and the answer really is, is that
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God gave us every single item God gave us can be used and can
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be chosen to be used for greatness or the opposite.
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So now food is literally the same thing, which means you
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choose to use food for greatness is when you dedicate your best
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meals for Shabbat and for celebrations and for Samarot and
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for siomim and things like that. And you chose to use God's tools
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for greatness. But if you dedicate your best
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food to be out with the boys, that's only I don't care about
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Shabbat meal looks like I care more about the steak that I get
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out with the boys According to the Messiah Shaheen
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misappropriating God's gift to the world.
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It's directly addressing your question directly.
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Same as true because what do you hear In a sense you could like
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music. I like music, really like music.
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If you like. If you buy overtime and soul,
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overtime likes sitting in or listening to a class, feels more
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inclined to do so. Or even if you push yourself to
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be more inclined to do so, more than listening to music,
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listening to a game, in a sense you've chosen more connection to
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the right thing. And the same thing is where you
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speak sentence, where you see all the same idea, the same
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things, where you touch all these concepts are always the
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same. A person should realize I have
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tools and means of connection and therefore greatness,
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connection to the holiest things in the world, right?
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Talk about Israel. You feel connected to Israel.
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What is that? How do you explain our
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connection to Israel? The answer is, is that when
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you're there and it's a real thing, when you're there and you
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look at holy places, you look at people that are growing up in
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the Holy Land, there is an actual connection that exists
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that's real that just gravitates you and makes you a magnet back
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to that thought. You can't explain it.
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Why would I want to be I, I told you I stayed in called Old City
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once. Why would I rather live in the
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Old City and live in the gorgeous humongous hope?
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I'm telling you reality. If you gave me two choices, I
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don't know the practicality living in the old city, but
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technically speaking, you gave me two choices.
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I definitely would feel better living in the old city right
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now. I wouldn't sit in this feeling
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living on a home of the ocean here in Deal.
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Why? Right?
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I'm sure part of you would for a short time.
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Same thing. What the answer is the
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connection that has developed based on the sight and the sense
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of. Kedusha, right?
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So that that's my whole thing about the item, that feeling
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that and and I don't know, like my kids were telling me last
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night, they have they have 4 guests here from Miami that we
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went in to Shiva with them. They're part of the community in
24:36
amateur, which is nothing compared to this community here.
24:39
And they were just saying how one of the boys was learning
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three different Geminas and did 3 Sims.
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He never finished one in Miami. Right, right.
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That's how that's the power of learning in Israel.
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It's got like. Super size there and they can't
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even figure out how to get the first base here.
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Yeah, that's the power of learning Israel there's.
24:57
So much distraction and. Sure, for me it was a life
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changing event, a year and a half I spent in Israel even
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though I was already learning a lot of stuff.
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Life changing. So forget it and it's for
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everyone one way or another. Just be there, learning there,
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spending time there. For many of us, that's what we
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love to do about mitzvahs there. You know, originally I give you
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behind the scenes. Originally I felt the community,
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I think I was doing about missiles in Israel.
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What is this? You go to the cartel, it's a
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photo op. It's chaos.
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You go and make a party. It's very expensive.
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Yeah. I don't understand what it is.
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Right. What is going on at Camel Ride
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gonna do for anybody? I guess what you're seeing here.
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And then it's the overall sense of being there.
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It's real. And when the kid starts off, you
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know, starts off his journey. Am I recognizing that there's
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something to do Shaw And it's it's a great thing.
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Not everyone can do it. I'm very aware.
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I don't think I'm going to do it with my son.
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I don't think I could afford it. But technically speaking, it's a
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real thing. And it has its UPS, may have its
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downs. Maybe a party here has its
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significance there, too. I'm not taking away.
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I'm just telling you the concept of connection is real.
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And when just the whole. Of this.
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What do you mean? Like you go to liquid and liquid
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you don't feel that same. No.
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So Israel is more yes, in that sense, as there's hope
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something, there's something home to there's something.
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But that's part of the holiness. The holiness of a home is not
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because you're going back to nostalgia.
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I come back to the deal because I grew up here.
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Yeah, I like being a deal because I grew up here.
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But it's not the same thing as Israel.
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Home means something and there's something you can't explain.
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It's something you can't. Why do we put your money right?
26:36
But I wasn't there. No, but.
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My soul was that answer is OK, more connection.
26:42
Yeah. You just realize, you realize
26:45
how strong this concept of connection to good is when you
26:48
hear something that strikes you and it's a devout Torah is a
26:51
connection. When you feel you're alone with
26:53
God and you feel like I should have just pitched in for you.
26:56
When you're in a pickle and you're like, man, that worked
26:58
out well. Wow, that's cool.
26:59
And you feel something. That's a connection.
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These things are real. When you're blessed with a child
27:04
and you feel something you can't explain, yeah, go even have that
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feeling to to a degree, but you feel even more.
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That is the connection to Hashem.
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Hashem, thank you. You just gave me a world.
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These are real things. And this develops this
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connection that we have and the strength of who we are.
27:20
And our job is to live life connected at all times.
27:25
Do not allow yourself to be disconnected by being connected
27:30
to other things, to be obsessed for other things.
27:33
I gave you my example of a couple weeks ago.
27:36
That was when the Knicks loss, Game 4 championship.
27:42
Was I happy or said I was not happy and I was upset at myself.
27:46
But being not happy, Why? Because I said it's one thing to
27:49
still follow, to still enjoy. That's great.
27:51
I have no problem with that. But it's another thing to allow
27:55
yourself to get that mood, you know, that mood when the team
27:58
loses that mood, like when I just sit to get that mood at
28:01
this age, it's emotional. Yeah, that emotion to be that
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connected. I said I'm doing something
28:07
wrong. So when game five happened,
28:09
we're not game five. I'm saying it off, which was the
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game. He lost three, he lost three, he
28:13
lost three-game four happened and they were losing bad, as we
28:16
know. We all know.
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I turned it off for a little while.
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I turned it on and I turned it off a little while.
28:21
I said to myself, no matter what happens, I'm good, I'm going to
28:24
talk to my wife. Normally I'm fine.
28:25
I don't care what happens. She's not going to have to tell
28:27
on my face what's going on because she has no clue.
28:30
And then, then I had the beauty of enjoying a comeback, which is
28:35
so much more comfortable and enjoyable when you know you're
28:38
not afraid of the shoe dropping. That's how life is.
28:41
But that I felt was my issue. The connection was too strong,
28:45
too much, which is what we are in that area and we are other
28:48
areas. We cannot be linked and held
28:51
down and bound to things in this world if we want to also be
28:56
connected and linked to things that otherworldly.
28:58
And it's telling you that as it's opening to developing us,
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you will use your tools to use your channels of sight, hearing,
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touching, smelling, and speaking.
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You're going to use them all as a means of greatness, as a means
29:14
of development, right? And you're going to become
29:17
something unbelievable if you realize just how powerful these
29:20
tools are. They link us.
29:22
This is amazing, but it but even gives me now a bigger question
29:27
mark. Why here in the community, the
29:30
Robin, it uses all this physicality and in reality, it's
29:36
supposed to bait them into switching into but right, it's
29:42
all about it's all about the breakfast and the Chinese
29:45
auction and the. Rapper question.
29:47
For the Knicks and the raffle for the Rolex and that and the
29:49
car and the Yeah. I'll tell you two things.
29:52
First of all, I said, I said the sense of speech is wrong.
29:55
It's not speech. I keep saying that it's hearing
29:57
sight, smell, taste and touch. Now to your question.
30:03
It is a billion dollar question literally because it makes a
30:05
billion dollars a question and and.
30:08
Certainly because I'm all for it kids with the ice cream.
30:12
Yes, you have a shot at those kids.
30:14
The only you're not taking a 60 year old guy who wants to just
30:17
get another Rolex or get front seat Nick tickets or and I'm I'm
30:21
not judging that guy, but I'm just saying it's it's so far
30:24
off. We're taking a.
30:26
Gets more people to come to. The only answer.
30:28
Is you're not changing, but you're you're.
30:30
Told it's Abolish My answer the only answer out there.
30:33
That's OK, Amy talk Shuler is my kids for kids for adults happens
30:39
to well, if those went to Shuler ready.
30:41
Smelly and ugly and there was no food and they wouldn't.
30:44
Come right. So then adults, adults in a
30:47
certain sense, have a childlike nature.
30:49
Yes. You want to go to a point where
30:52
you have to have a good breakfast in the shul, but the
30:55
breakfast is not the reason people come to shul.
30:57
You absolutely want to get that point in every shoe that you're
31:00
in. Sure, all right, but.
31:02
There's guys that go to Shul's just for breakfast.
31:04
I had two guys as well. I'd love to come to you for this
31:08
class. Yeah, but I like going to go.
31:09
But still, I get my grilled cheese sandwich.
31:11
OK, we don't mention. Places thank you.
31:16
That's me talk. That's me.
31:18
Talk to Laura SMA. That's it now.
31:19
So Asma, right. Oh yeah.
31:22
Rules that that's this guy's, you know, the commander in
31:25
chief. That's that's that's the
31:28
challenge of Shiloh Ishma. And you want to know something?
31:32
We are dancing. I I've told you I went to Robin
31:35
Israel. I asked the discussion.
31:36
I said our shoes give out use me on prizes.
31:39
They're over the top and we spend money on them and the the
31:42
this and the other thing. He says I'm gonna tell you
31:44
something. And he gave me Rambam.
31:47
He showed me Rambam, Pelusion Michelle.
31:49
Well, then I'm going to show it to you.
31:51
Show it to me tomorrow. Then Embalm probably Friday.
31:54
Then Embalm goes through step by step.
32:00
He talks about how you get people to grow.
32:03
And he says it starts with a little gift for the child to
32:07
have to do homage. And then he goes to them bigger
32:10
gifts. And he says when they get they
32:11
get they get grow out of that. You got to give them sharp
32:14
clothing, designer clothing. And then he goes on to other
32:17
gifts and he says eventually talking about, let's say 20 year
32:21
olds, eventually he's convinced them with cover, convinced them
32:25
that they're going to be more respected if they learned that
32:27
Obama says. And eventually, eventually,
32:29
eventually, we hope that they go out of it.
32:31
But he goes through all the way up to cover, That's how far.
32:34
And he's talking about a mature adult.
32:36
And yes, it's the reality of the world.
32:38
And we're not going to fool ourselves to believe that We
32:40
could, you know, sit in a shoe. It's uncomfortable.
32:44
It's got no food and not enjoyable when I we're very bare
32:49
and expect we are going the other shame.
32:51
I'm with you. We need the middle level.
32:54
The hope is you pull it to an extreme and then you find
32:57
yourself back in the middle level.
32:58
That's the hope, like everything else.
33:00
Same with how you raise your children.
33:02
Same with how we run a shoe, how you run a school, how you run
33:07
any area of Torah. It's the same thing.
33:09
You're playing the senses for the sake of physical and
33:14
eventually hoping that the senses get connected and he had
33:18
level of spiritual. That's us to do.
33:21
Physical on every other part of our life, correct.
33:24
And then taking a a mother's vacation in a car, a man's house
33:28
in a month. You had to fight your fire shul
33:31
and do all the. Other things Extremely.
33:32
Absolutely had to fight fire. But maybe the shul has has the
33:37
ability to neutralize what's happening in that world, in our
33:42
society. Not if no one's.
33:44
Interested. Meaning if every shul is the
33:45
same, let's say there's a standard shul, right?
33:49
And they all operated the same way, and nobody and nobody and
33:53
nobody put and nobody put the $100 bill in your hand right
33:56
under the table. So then you would know that the
34:02
shul is a met fair. Under Yeshiva.
34:05
You're fighting. 20,000 instead of 40,000.
34:08
And right, true, everything would change, but your fighting
34:10
could be. 20,000 instead of $100.
34:12
Every single one of these need to change, but these those are a
34:14
little bit less direct when it comes to direct like giving
34:17
classes in a shul or even a school was a really direct.
34:21
It's true. The reality is, however, as that
34:24
we're all body first. So our natural inclination of
34:27
connection, this concept is toward physical things.
34:31
And because we live in a very, very physical world where
34:34
everything is perfect, awesome and great.
34:36
And whenever it's a rainy day, we're out to lunch.
34:39
And when, you know, when you go to a restaurant, you're waiting
34:41
in 20 minutes, you're upset and all these different things,
34:43
right? Which means we are extremely
34:46
physically connected. That's OK.
34:48
That's the world we live in. Then to fight that, you need to
34:51
bring in the Torah. You need to get it to the back
34:53
door. And the back door means you need
34:55
to get the president to listen to.
34:56
Do we expect that every president listens?
34:59
He'll be less connected to physical than virtual.
35:02
Absolutely, we expect. And if we don't, we did a bad
35:04
job. 100% the bottom line, the finish line is more spiritual
35:09
than physical, but the opening line is definitely more physical
35:12
than spiritual. That's how it works with the
35:13
senses. 100% that's how it works.