Welcome to my life's it has applied episode 243. We are about to enter the month of Shabbat yesterday. We benched Shabbos move or from SWAT and a Monday will be rescheduled for tonight is the ready today's our administrators and tonight is a beginning of the Scottish lat.So we'll talk about that as we always do in a timely basis the events and the calendar as well as this week's Pasha, which is now the beginning of partial boy. And of course always in the context of Citizen applied, which is applying it to our personal lives based on the general principle that taters Malaysian Hydra the word Taylor itself comes from the meaning directive guide a directive in life Taylor's. Hi Mazz that I would always say hello behind a blueprint for life. So being that we're writing entering the month of the entering rachet - wat so let's begin with that in the year tough Shimon base, which will be 37 years ago. The rebels spoke was Shabbos passed over a des. This job is yesterday there about if I bring it was my version, of course, I was moving him and it was the same query is the same schedule like this year. We're traitors a Monday and one of the lessons that have been learned and derived from that schedule. In was precise. Everything is precise and everything has a lesson for us. Even when the schedule of illustrators comes out on a Monday or Sunday or Tuesday or whatever day it comes out and is able to come out that also has lessons. It's one of the so-called lesser focused upon tremendous tremendous directive that we received from the rebel was everything was precise. Even the schedule of something not just the straightest route itself. But what day in the week comes and the rubber then as you in his inimitable inimitable way explained that by accident is an expression by that. I became a democracy the minister came by mail. There's no such thing as just automatic when it's crazy shebat comes out on a Sunday. So then you're going straight from Shabbos that blesses into Sunday. It's almost like automatic the fact that it comes after a day or Sunday that are day of Aveda where we work emphasizes that stuck in the mail everything has to come with effort That's the lesson we learned from this crease, of course in the context of Shabbat, especially by the Sydenham Shabbat is the month tenth of shot will be this year the beginning of the 70th year of the rebels leadership 70th year also of the who love the physical MBA so of has a specific relevance to that, but first the first lesson is this not going to Mala. There's an expression in the town with you to sha me talks about someone who came into our shul can't a minion and he heard made him enough Chikara. He was so accustomed to bowing doing Maiden that we say them enough. She caught it that even even concentrating without even deliberating on it. He just bent that someone hand that sounds like a tremendous thing a person so trained they don't even think about it. He's so trained in kedusha that it comes automatically, but there's times that Times that explain that nope didn't come with our vader-like explains and Tiny pellet as well, which is the key terms of these days the problem importance of effort that if it's routine and habit, even if it's a holy habit and a sacred one. It doesn't have that effort pushing yourself a little more as you sites. They're from the gemara monopolist that says that the times of the time of the custom was to study and review that which you've learned a hundred times the model calls that lawyer avoid that it's not cold. David the because it was the custom hundred times who learns is review something a hundred times, but that was their route eat the hundred. And first time this Panama has ever the outer Debbie says this one time over the hundred and you can only reach laughter. You have a hundred that in a person quality macri is more powerful than the hundred because you've gone out of the routine Norman mailer. It's not coming automatically and that's a very powerful lesson so many areas in life. We're often we ask ourselves why can't things Come easy. Why do I have to make an effort? But it's actually a gift that was given to us that we have the power to be creators. We have the power to be initiators that we can initiate and when we do so we become a partner in the process if it's in the middle of thing, that's why it says that the commodity famous good morning megillah. If someone says lay your guy too much so she I'll timing. Someone says you guys development social timing your guide you my Saucy effort brings the Holt's effort and you'll think even on a secular level ask anyone who's successful they'll all tell you how much persistence and sweat is even more important than a good idea seeing it through that effort. So we have that less than a general lesson in life because it has supplied type of lesson. I'm not stuck in the mail should things if the deliberate on pain things obviously nothing wrong with having good habits and good routines that you naturally instinctively and reflexively Bond but a person who thinks about things always adds more to it not just what it does by rote or mechanically and of course in Judaism itself doing something mechanically and by wrote though, it has some value but it's not the passion and the polygamous and the vitality and the dynamic investment that we have when we do something with that type of deliberate effort. Is that completely different quality of Aunt and quality of even product when you have that type of personal relationship. So, of course, there's also less than how we teach our children and our students and each other and anyone we come in contact with not just enough to inspire not enough just to inform and educate but to empower to empower that there's that they should own it and want to make an effort not just give it to them on a platter but also make it an effort that it's worth while the effort and teaching people. That is so valuable that they We'll go and make an effort even when you're not there when the teacher or the parent or the much beer is not that in their presence. They will have owned it because they earn their way and that earning is the motto says involvement. See it says Odom relates to become chelation magician commercial covid a person desires one measure. The capsule a of his own effort then nine that he receives as a gift he or she receives as a gift, but you can buy nine times as much with nine, but it's not yours and you'll see when you get something as a gift so far easier to scrounge the opportunity, but when you worked for it, even if it's only one measure of nine, it has a certain qualitative value, not Noble Mala. How does that apply regarding? The strangers fat? That's a lesson in general because the whole evening of see this Exactly that there should be no, but Mala you just got to not be mechanical Judaism. It should not be by rotor by routine, but with an effort but some form of commitment and some form of investment. So of course as we go into the skaters sharat comes with for Shabbos, welcome Charles what's close to our hearts is that this is the month ten days from huge fat as I said, he'll rule of the Frida collab the same day you just about option you would the beginning of the rebels leadership with the rebel saying the first time playing Ultimate option you dolphin. He formally accepted then the serious right after the moment. That's a finish time fake-looking bosom don't deceive yourself into thinking that I'm going to do the work for you. Everyone has their Peril. Everyone has their students to click the clip stood de la Maza their so-called negative Insanity things we do that are just not necessarily like he says the moment Buster guy things we do just automatically negatively and each of us has to work on ourselves and make our effort. The beside own decline from helping but basically I meet you halfway Aveda became a noble Mala. So it specifically the math lesson this year's careers that it comes on Monday after a day of effort is even more relevant when it comes to the issues of SWAT Irish craziest ride also has the power that the beginning of sacred volume v Hamish when make sure that they know is knows that he was 37 days until Zion odor when there's a Shaman would go back to the Milan. So it's ill-advised a machete burmecia. These are the words that measure said on his haters Shabbat and began by it as a Taylor has he began to explain the data? So the Rashi says and from the metrics that be shaving lotion began to translate into 70 languages. What's the significance of that? All the Jews knew Hebrew they received at 80 by Matt and Tara was not in 70 languages. The significance is that Taylor should be brought. And made relevant and palatable and accessible in every language language refers not just the physical languages but also to the idioms to the way you present an idea that it should be snug Anglican users. They say relevant to the person that's being taught to so we know Mission at 800 which is the fifth book is what Mason The Piazza Muhammad motion said it and that's why much of the book is written in the language of moisture speaking to the in it's all Taylor Menasha my But the four books the first four books is a sham speaking or b'shem. Adonai be like a third person here major speaking. So Taylor. So this says it's vitamin C this elaborates that this is when Mason was internalizing it and giving to them incense integrated normal male. It's not a male. It's rude evade after hearing the tail monogamy, which is a gift Matt and Tara the gift from above now. What are you going to do? Not just listen you now have to absorb process. Internalize it and then digested and presented. That's what Mason did similar to what it says in a longish but democratization of Nahum like a Sonata. He has to present a teacher measuring teachers it in a way that's presentable to the student not just saying hear the words from Heaven Again the emphasis on polygamy is the emphasis on effort emphasis on internalizing it basically just fat and that's where the political debate did the lab explains in the sacrum embase and all the other places that he and to translate 3D collab that is to see this many languages physically in other languages and also explaining it in ways that people who do not necessarily not familiar with the original language can relate to and of course the rabbit took it to a completely other dimension. The Schrader's fat has leads to the Schrader's the head of the month of Swat. Connection to the Parsha. So of course very little boy is a continuation of passage which is all Goldsmith tonight. But in this week's Parsha the middle of the past, we also begin the goal. I've had this as a lock on and able to tell him why should I buy a new inmates 9 that the 15th day of this month of this new month and New Moon you will be redeemed you will lead the Jews out of medicine. I bet somehow your mother and that becomes the Kula in middle of partial but so in the Of the abyss of mitzrayim from the word constraints and limitations Begins the story this narrative and and the actual the actual Redemption and that would be marching Adam. It's I'm and the rest of their story as the Jews go on their Journeys all the way till the end of the Tater. They come to the East Bank of the River Jordan ready to go into H this role. So the aid of course is the last Marcus and is the darkest time. I'm of the goals the goals became more dark and more difficult more oppressive for the Jews and yet right before the dawn who is the darkest moment and that's when mesh of ultimately broke with the clerk of the neighbors to the Clipper of Patty. Patty was called Tanana God the Great Serpent reflecting and representing Serpent of great alligator. Great crocodile different ways are translated, but it represented the power the power of the negative energy and Polly was not a simple. Power of negative which is why the ZR says the beginning of this week's pasture. Why does it say boil party? Boy means come to Paris a little party got the party as it does say in several times earlier and the answer is because as Misha was engaging with party the first he was dealing with the outer more superficial surface levels of this of this negative energy of this diabolical and archenemy of anything. That's holy person. Who said I don't know this God person who considered himself God person who was literally ruled with I Hand the Jewish people and this country. So first Moshe was sold called dealing with his more outer Dimensions. But as you got closer and closer to dealing with the padding to the core motion says, dr. Lee became afraid and began to tremble he was afraid to go to go into the inner chambers of this clip of this difficult the negative energy thinking meeting the Hitler of the generation. With all the power that he had so make sure was afraid so I Shem says boy, you'll Party come with me. You don't go alone come with me. And most of then went along what's the significance what emotion Hashem didn't go with Moshe earlier, but there wasn't so important to emphasize because make sure felt he had the clerk was Emily went here. He needed to have deeper cases basically greater strengths because he was dealing with the greater Darkness to break that he needs a sham. So the ribbon talking by 8mm embase also brings the mind me that the LeBaron shop said in tougher a shy in Zion hundred and two years ago here would be 1917 they said in mind my Pasha beta of the anus Attica and the end of the moment of the homeowner, but the especially then he talks about siddiq him have the power to break and bring down even the most negative forces that is shyam of their generation, except there are exceptions when I Rush has given power for whatever reason God is mysterious ways. Not so simple. It's a deacon at necessary content with it. However, he goes with the Power of the a bush that he could these Peaks there but siddiq him of the different levels and the levels sudden the cecum and Bay's that some consider more masam. Love noticed that that was the time when Nikolai there's our the last tsar of czarist Russia who was at say to you slowly hater of Jews was was overthrown by the revolution around that period of time. So without the labor some shop said it's relevant to the time that he was in that The residents of the helots news talking about a seemed safer Tater. I was taking place that week the first seemed safer Taylor Chloe that I spoke about and he said he doesn't seem sympathetic should accomplish the same to basically eliminate the negative forces. I don't know if we know exactly what the devil was referring to or speaking in general. But what you see from this is that the lessons from past Rivera and boy which are connected as the river connects in that situation. And I definitely encourage you to look it up our lessons that are also in our times the power of kedusha the power of Holiness the power of light to dispel Darkness even even the harshest and the darkest form of Darkness because we don't go alone come with me then times when would given pay a power and they burst is so to speak is behind the scenes then there are times when we need more clear. God says I'm going with you. So there's no circumstance both on the personal partying our lives our personal mid selenium and we have to sometimes deal with the darker moments of Our Lives whether it's due to grief and sorrow or trauma or is due to different oppression psychological fears. Anything that goes into the category of made sudden volume which means the constraints the inhibitions the limitations anything that traps you that you feel trapped in so there are times we feel I'm strength and God is always giving us strength times that we may feel really fearful. We don't feel we can do it and we want to retreat so it's a boil party and even great. My should have been you needed it on his level. So we all have a tremendous lesson from that and of course, there's also boil party of Russia party from the world is Padilla you calm the Hayden Patty also has everything has a shade of Shadow root in the above. So if there's a party very strong and Lumas and the negative there's also a party of guichen like we say about love on love and below is a thief a gangster a liar a deceiver but love and love and refers to Laban Elliot the supernal whiteness of the highest levels. Thinking so on same thing party party also comes from this Podium which means the the explosion or the bursting forth of all the lights and all the energies. So the rebel says which fought came in the week of Pascha boy. I wish I was special boy when it happened to option you would so this is so came on one hand. There's a Darkness but another hand comes a tremendous light that comes with this tall courses that have explained systolic accorded to contribute to be called Alma. The power of bring even a more powerful light of boy and that's what my she achieved with hashem's help come with me able to transform the darkest and what happens to a connection this week's pasture and middle of the pasture smack right in the middle. Not even the next comes the goal after 210 years of Oppression. The lesson to us is that there is always the hope God is with you God got goes with you got comes with you and hold your hand and has that it gives us the strength to deal with any difficult any The life now in our case. We have the moisture debated within us we have the rebel within each one of us the measure of each generation. And this is also with the clerk of the a burst inside of make sure the boy will help Ari. Okay, many many lessons can be derived from this for more on this topic of cross-reference to episode 52 98 146 and 197. Okay without let me ready make some housekeeping announcements. Excuse me. One is that as I just said cross-referencing all these episodes are archived. You can access them at meaningful live.com / my life and if you go to the YouTube version on a desktop or laptop, you can actually see the timestamps and go straight to the topic you want without having to listen to all of it. 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So please be generous and help us either dedicate the program in memory of a loved one or honor of a loved one to go to meaningful live.com / sponsor ship. Meaningful have that calm / sponsorship. Okay. Now let us go to some questions. And of course, we'll start with a contemporary question. I just Breaking news in the Chabad world this week this past week. How should we react to the recent? Mezuzah controversy? So yes, we received letters and sure you've heard about this. So if you haven't heard about it, let me just be specific what we're talking about here controversy has broken out about what is being sold by the suffering by the scribes by the motion is flooding those that sell mezuzahs in this community in the Crown Heights community and other communities. Is it up to standard is it kosher is a not Kosher debate raging? All different perspectives. We got the respect of the stores perspective. Well it all started with a young man who decided to do an investigation and came to a conclusion that many of the mezuzahs are not Pasa Pasa La not Kosher you have the reality of the comments from the stores that sell these mezuzahs you have comments from suffering scribes from Laburnum from people in the street. Everybody has entered The Fray initially. I was not going to speak about precisely because everyone's talking about what do I need to talk about? But I do want to share a few words and I think just to bring a little I guess sanity into this discussion. We are Jewish people. We're here for over thermos 3,800 years formerly from the time of Aroma Vino Martin. Theta is over 3,300 years ago. They've been controversies as like this and bigger ones. Thank God God blessed us with a Teta we're not living in the dark. We have directives. I mentioned Tatum lotion a rotator has directives for us matter what the situation Taylor has a response. Why is that so vital because all of us are subjective all of us have opinions and they could be good appears. We may be brilliant, but we're subjective. So God blessed us. He gave us a tale that has seen a but more importantly the Taylor hasn't methodology that can be applied in every given situation and that's why they record a we have a maceda. We have the caucus coming of each generation as they codified the Toyota first Taylor should be excessive from the a bastard and - about pair Taylor but pollution it now which in turn became howl office which what we call today she'll Canada. Starting from the rambam the Russian other poskim and it's a long literature along body of scholarship that goes in an unbroken chain of how you determine every question. So the first thing everyone has to ask ourselves each one of us has a what does it take to say now what I say not what this young man says not with the store say not what I wanted to say. Not with this soft room. Say what is the Tater say? So the Taylor says to go to I drove. I'd rather not because he's a smart guy because he's a good guy because he's a person who knows what this says in the trailer. Suffering also have a certain Authority writing a safer Taylor or a film or mezuzahs is not a simple matter. Not everybody can just sit down and write there are real rules. Now, of course there are different opinions. And the commodity talks about it and then Shakalaka talks about it and we know this busy have it and there's a killer and there's the things that are for sure possible covid a is completely unacceptable as far as a mezuzah goes there are things that are cautious the holidays and they're things that some say you can get it but the evidence acceptable, but if you're mocking me, you should not do it. This should not offer all these things enough to make up new analysis, and we don't need to find new authorities. So the way I would look at this is very straightforward. Okay. This is rocket practices came up whether the fellow did it the right way should have gone and publicize names and stores and so on. It's after the fact I'm not going to go make a judgment call on that. But as rock the product is now that it's on the table would tell you to it. But knew him so let's look what the data says. What does that mean? If a mezuzah you have a question you go to a story by a mezuzah. Now, you're relying that day have someone that checked it. Remember every store has an Aggie because they're selling something. So happy. I lost everyone is in the game but though the gave it over means can be a relative. It can be financial gain or some other Prejudice. So Taylor addresses that too. That's why you have objective rabbis objective scribes who look at something if case there's a question now, there are obviously people I have certain suffering. They trust they have certain scribes. They chose to have certain stores. They trust if however for some reason I'm not even saying it's legitimate a question has come up should you trust this scribe or this tour is a simple process take the mezuzah. So whatever it is that we've got in question and bring it to an objective person and let him look at it. This is the potato says and objective person is not a person of this treats a person who's trained who knows. First of all shall carnatic knows how to look at him Azusa and at a Judgment, and at the letters and exactly how it's written and can say this is a question of mezuzah. However, if you were mocking me, it would be few things should be remanded or it's possible. It's either possible cost should or could be done better. And this again, there are rules for all these things. Everything is addressed. I've I was a manager of the store or on the store what I would do. Which is what you see Le have the word the greatest world does if someone questions your credibility instead of becoming defensive or anything. What you should do is on the contrary. So yes, I care about my standards. I want you as a customer. I want people to know that you can trust me you come out with the campaign and say, you know, what will have polar Point objective or I want a more objective suffering who will check anything. You have a question. They will check it and they won't be biased because they're not going to be paid by Me Maybe. It's a collective fund. I don't know we have to Around how this is not because there's necessarily anyone is saying that there's anything wrong but that's what you do you go overboard when you want to have customers when you want to be credible. Everyone knows the famous story with Tylenol just bring it as an example. Tylenol was found laced with God forbid some people died from it. Not even comparing it to have the Ella $5. So Tylenol the company that owned it, you know, this was it could destroy their whole company because that's all you needed that it was laced and they didn't know what to do some argue. They should just ignore it. It'll blow over some said we should do comment on it and they came out with an aggressive campaign that we are now going to do something and no one has ever done. We're because of this happened and we feel the responsibility to the public. We're going to create new safety hatches latches, whatever it is. Four covers for to avoid tamper-proof packaging and they came out with a big apology and said tamper-proof and they not only did they continue their business they doubled in trouble because they gain The credibility I'm not suggesting the same here because to say I'm not going to come to a conclusion to say any mezuzahs for possible or that in cause any damage but it's just a lesson even if it did look what they did and how they gain the trust of the public. So I think this is an opportunity to be at a to even see the shading. Look at the situation and take the bull by the horns and say there's a Taylor Swift Canada. We have that bonding. We have self Loop. Let's find those objective people that can establish that way. Everybody is absolved of the gears whether this young man whether he had biases or not. I don't know and I didn't investigate whether other people have biases. I'm not here to rule on it. But the tailor covers all bases. That's my point. And the basis especially are looking at a situation. It's not just with mezuzah, by the way. It's with any given situation with this controversy. Thank We have a tainted that helps us get through situations like this by looking at objectively dispassionately by Taylor people and so on. now if indeed somebody besmirched and cause damage for no reason that has to be addressed to That also has stated is also recourse with that. But overall I'm talking now to each other as a public you buy a mezuzah whether its buying it for yourself or you're buying it for someone else. You're buying it from its volume by all means you should ask whoever selling the mezuzah was a checked and there's no problem. Go check it with independently by someone else you could say, why do I have to do that? You know what we have much gave him in restaurants. We have much greater claim that we have a strong focus on food. There's the concept of God now if you find someone that you trust In the world of softness by all means that's all it's all part of it. They have those authorities. But since now things have come into question added up, let's use it to strengthen our commitment and strengthen our standards and do this in the Tate away. Now, do you think the devil would answer anything different than that? Then this phone has the lemon this question Taylor Taylor mention it up. So this is Tater habad estate. Everything is stated. We follow the tail now has come out some new. Ins which I'm sure some of you are aware of his up sagged in actually an abstract in a letter I should say from the best in of Crown Heights. They did they did. I loved all the tables kiss love darling Kiss Live Topsham Zion the best of Crown Heights and they gave out nine guidelines because they saw laxity and problems with mezuzahs. So once you have this this is our bottom of this community and I bought in this community that everybody embraced and that ever endorsed. So all we have to do is follow of the things they said there. That they're saying that they don't refer to any particular story or they definitely don't mention names. They say that there's definitely an issue going on with Matt. This Thomas Thomas is again safe potatoes films was associate Avis. They read regulations. So there should be no Mitchell. There should be no impediment in our community among the role rules that they wrote was everything should go through a rigorous review and that the writer should be of course God-fearing an expert. Wherever they come from and they actually banned they said they should not have small mezuzahs. We can't see tagging or there are no tagging the Crown's. So here's the rub on this is from that one who couldn't someone wants to question that other American than 20 but it is it is coming from the bottom of this community. Rest assured this was mems Ian. I'm sure that I ever saw this so I don't know if that ever reacted to it, but we don't have anything negative about so there's one directive was also brought to my attention. I want to thank the family the Blau family of Mayor blouse children, especially love Levi brought to my attention that back in the year Thompson llama dalit which was right after that. I began with some Azusa after the tragedy of my lot in Israel. So the mayor blough was and asking and a very proactive activist Came out when with a big ad in the Jewish, press that said over 80% of mezuzahs and phone are not kosher. And he goes on of course to make a call. The people should be vigilant to make sure it's kosher he wrote to the devil and submitted this ad and he said Not only did he put that in. He also sent it to rabbis and to communities all over the country. both in Yiddish and in English and he gives a bunch of lists of things of why he studied did it in order obviously to keep the standard and to prevent a real Mitchell real problem, which is the laxity around it can possibly mezuzahs that ever answered we hear lots of shake all are now but slow, Carrabba asked, Alexia So that was already back in the 1990's. We're talking about 74 Shabbos kazane time. And then there was unfortunately a tragedy Interruption. I'm involved with some Shock them got killed in an accident. So Mayor Bloomberg era Blau otherwise sholem wrote to the web about it. And he said that they went to check the mezuzahs and the masseuse. Unfortunately for the people that were killed was not Kosher. She says it's a very sensitive think he doesn't want to bring it up to the family. He wants to do it through family members, but he wants to know that ebb is giving him. Directive should he do something about it in a sensitive way and the rubber right? Capacity Salazar? Peaceful Canada given this La Maza Hulu LaLanne of Elaine reichman. Well, it's not Teresa's capacity should do something about it because I was going to because as we can because that's what patient Hinata and they're having the parentheses says because something happened negatively. So obviously you have to look and introspective especially in the area of mizzou's and filmed and safer. Tara is the rivers. Indicates very many times and then the Lab Rats Oscar. Let's see. It's close to my heart as well as he writes at the bottom is because of this tragedy. He's printing in the newspaper of allgemeinen. See kibosh - a mezuzah that was from that year Pasha aircraft often involve was a Civic came out about the power of mezuzah. Okay good. So what we should only need to hear good news. I just wanted to share this all for the slimmest in Union, but the sum up I think we have at it. I think I know we have a Taylor Taylor are some Dating Taylor. I think when you go with that approach, you put aside all agendas or personal agendas all opinions. That's all that matters here. What does it take to say? The Taylor has a lockers regarding this. They said the details I discussed earlier the details of a locker something is caution. Who did they could be cautioned not to tackle Sanhedrin and could be possible and that needs to be determined determined not by people in the street now by anybody. These are people with authority can determine this and our bonding and suffering that have the same class as the rubber bottom wrote Hiroshima and all the requirements that are safer safer has entailed potato. Okay, and I'd love to hear any comments or feedback with that. Let us also. I want to say one more thing from the sock. Then from Torres remembered Zion that I bought him also said they also demanded all softly. Mm and my game in the neighborhood community Crown Heights appear before the but that's before the best in the show their credentials that they revisit the Al-Aqsa substantial Connecticut least once a year, I would submit not as it of but it's just a practical suggestion is always good to have a second person checking anything now of course different opinions and she'll kannada but as a safer or I love that checks knows those lockers and Say this is it's not possible but it's not tacos. I hid having to people who don't know of each other is always a healthy thing, especially now that there's been a controversy. So why not be even extra careful so we know exactly what we're dealing with and so on and hopefully we all follow with Theta says potatoes dark hair dark in am on the Civil side column. Everything would tell his men to bring Shalom and peace and not create definitely that divisiveness and arguments and we follow taraweeh all It to what the Taylor says that is the best way that will find resolution here that will be without any extra Agnes nefesh or any personalization or any damage to anybody. Okay, good what the data says is the best for everyone whoever's involved. but that let us move to a Other questions, is there an intrinsic value? To keep see this in its pristine State and not try applying it to specific situations. Hi, Robby Jacobs. Thanks for sending out your week video weekly weekly it creates a positive start to my week and it feels good to know that your cover the weeks passed as well as Jewish holidays that are relevant that week. I learned the cecum this week and the rebbe explains that moisture his job was to break the Clipper of mitzrayim and his brother on was to take the message that measure would carrot convey in Hebrew, which It was probably the not understand. I like last year says the homeless a new vehicle via the menu in other words. I'm product and explained it to Paris. So make sure was like the pristine form of what God Said to break the clip and not embroider down to his level to make sure he understands the message. My question to you, is there a concept of keeping cities the words of the lab and make sure that they know in their pristine State and not try to apply it to specific cases. Like in other words like moisture not like God. If not, then what's this concept of motion just saying things the way they are and how does that apply to us? Thanks. So the question obviously is questioning the premise of this program because it is supplied my maxi this or a Seeker. Is the said by the lab Am David elokim time? We have the original and just read that. is there It is an Indian in that. Or you have to always apply it to a personal situation. So, of course the answer is obvious, of course, there's a new that not only that that that's where it all begins when the Arab am selling. My merwe Nobles massage the Avid it will find the environment the atmosphere and their words are wholly that's why when we has an amendment by Bar Mitzvah or by a wedding or in General on the Shabbos. It has a memory of Hazzard. I suppose issue set up and we don't have an explanation. Sometimes we add a little to make a little more explainable but not much. So that's like the Words of nation but we're also told told told that we have to learn cities with the learn and understand it. So there's thinking of learning the words and of course that has the most power we know that IBM's had certain my modem. They said was to for the for that they would repeat repeat for the different be rude and they needed at that time. As I said, we Hazard of but then there's the engine of explain Exodus internalizing it like anything until you learn to tell you some examples even lay under my car might even know if you know what It says they're all the words are holy. But then the tail has a Mitzvah till understand laughs fossil the first of all to study it immerse yourself Yugi as I discussed earlier understand that argue about it internalised aside a contradiction. So, of course, there's an engine of the mesh of theta and is the adhan of theta where an translates in brings it down to the level of the people in this case party. And then there's the end of the tale itself in its original form. There's no contradiction at all. So they both have value the first we'll probably has even more power because it's the original words, but II has more internalization and this is discussed in many places that taters the Taylor is like Ella Coos, but then there's other cool says its lavash as it manifests in our cycle and our understanding of it generally the difference in tennis should be excitement a to show up here. Intentional pegu for these levels same thing as Exodus that there's the tension of Exotics it's tiny but even other my mom, that's great from that I-beam and there's an explanation of it famous story with lab Hill parents and some of the sudden they were sitting after a moment that someone said they delivered and they were discussing the have wanted understanding of the minor uphill disagreed with it some exotic so someone said to him, how can you disagree? Someone said it himself said the Miami says when the rabbit says the my mother is conditioned us to Messina. Like given at Sinai obviously, that's the devil speaking chinnamma. Debellis metallic. Rainy sometimes expression. The screen is speaking through his throat through his mouth. But now we're talking understanding it and here we're losing cycled understand here that I bet that are bataki. But this is a discussion for Taylor and we're learning Taylor together and here you could have room for disagreement. That's why my should have been when he said something from a sham. Obviously that's authority of a sham. But then we'll measure set with the commitment. They discuss something actually Rob lattice you go according to the majority even if majority is not according to Mission. Though of course motions respected for his understanding now. This is could be elaborated upon but the point is there are two elements to see this as there is the general table. I discussed this in different cases different ideas in different episodes episode 59 123 132, 163, 165 177 and 199 different ideas about this whole basis of the supplying see this to our personal lives, but that is absolutely the cover on as well to bring up. In the personalization of all these ideas each one of us call Haddad the function unit delay each person according to their measure according to their needs according to their unique perspective and an approach all based on the source without compromising that Source after Emma says tiny is a Texas. So of course time you itself is Tiny condition, but it's ait's is that means each of us can take the advice and the directives out there besides each according to our weight a term illusionator as I Mentioned earlier next question. What did the rebel mean by calling? Someone a plain Clothes Closet? Greetings Rabbi Jacobsen one time at the local Chabad house. They showed some clip from video clip of people's reminiscences of the rubber. There was one man who said that the rebel referred to him as a plain Clothes Closet. Did you interpret for us? What did I ever meant by this? I thought of it because of the recent flurry of concern expressed by some of your viewers as to what kind of yarmulke should be warned. Thank you and keep up the great work. Yeah, not just mezuzahs. There was a flurry of discussion about my yarmulke is referring to specific. Okay, well The expression plainclothes of course comes at somebody is dressed. Like I said plainclothes policemen dressed in plain clothes, not the uniform still a policeman but he's dressed up in other word to either camouflage himself and a way that he can get away with certain things because if you saw as a policeman people would know who he is and they be careful. So this is more of a like an undercover situation. My assumption is and then we used that term and I've heard a few times is that they're people who dress like a hosted you look at them. You see a custard gate persons are out overt and outright representative of the Rebel and lives up to that standard, hopefully and so on but then there are people who were very much touched by this in this by the debating by the lab and they may not look the part may not dress the part. But when you speak to them, you suddenly see this deep discussions and You know, they're loyal to the cause now what a dress that way whatever the reasons are but that it was saying basically there are people like that that are out there that are wherever they may be and they are playing close hosted their might mention of the lepers are Mensch, but he's dressed in a part that maybe the glove Worsham of the place where he's at like we say in citizens have to be dressing up in the Vichy. Homme is bottle. Of course we have to always know is to be repeated in her locker, but there are people God forbid whatever. Reason, they still have not embraced all of theta at least not until the vashem department the Garment apartment, but their heart and their soul in their actions even are completely committed. I've met people like this. I'm sure you have as well. That's how I would explain it. I just heard on Shabbos actually. So shared with me who is my spirit was not a bad person and when the rebel came out with must be him, he wrote to the rebel. And the response was that your must be is the one that brought you to this guide even though it's not Chabad. So what does that mean? So I thought to myself this idea the plain clothes that means what is it about hosted we spoke about that lat about this last week come across and then the days - cuff of the rib a person who's living up to the directives and the philosophy and approach the perspective of the rib. Now obviously there's dressing the part and there's are not always dressing the part, but you could also be someone who's in plain clothes and still propagating and perpetuating the rebels message and the rebels carvanha fulfilling the rebels mission to us in this world. That's pretty straightforward. Next question Muslim question about Mazda. The Jewish people have luck. In Hebrew, we know the word, Massa. On one side we say n mausolea slow. There's no Muzzle for in but then we say Mazel tov. And I should add when it comes for example, each month month of spot month of other Muslims body body musleh that the Muslims are healthy muscles are strong muzzle and actually has implications even in a locker. If something is going bad by someone in life, can you say it's bad luck or is it a punishment for his misdoings? And now he should add a mistress and all those problems will be resolved has nothing to do with his luck. Thank you. So first I want to refer you to episode 198 where I spoke about zodiac and astrology. The brief answer is the following eight miles away. Is that all exactly right? Because Mazel is part of how God created the world and there's so-called laws of nature and the cloning the laws of astrology The Crusade by avraham avinu. He was subject to that. But then when I've robbed changes name, I've ramla classroom. She no longer is bound by these guidelines because you're connected to so called told the master himself. So the stars and all the different Marsalis and constellations are God's handiwork. These are basically instruments of God. So instead of being subject to the instruments result. We Mak connect to the person who's created the person to The Entity that is the bow ha instrument which is all. Kogasa. Be either case of it's all like a an ax in the hand of the axman. So Jews have that direct connection. So they're not bound to Mars oldest. That doesn't mean however, we do live in this world. So the I'm shocked about Lucas which comes from higher than the Marsalis comes to us also through our Mazda. So we'd say doesn't control Our Lives there's predisposition. That's why in the reddish of there's certain things. We don't do it's a fatal shot. That is a month of simcha. Hey, the service is adamant. That doesn't mean we're Bound by doesn't mean it controls our lives, but there's a predisposition so-called inclination. So the route is a Mazda slow is higher than any mosque. But it does come down. I'm chakras that come through different so-called personalities and characteristics that do affect us, but we're not bound by it and we can always transcend it. Then there's the title see this in Mazda Israel in Iron muzzle Israel. Not that there is no Muzzle that Marvel of Israel is the level of iron not yet the level of beetle telecourse so that means both things that means there is no Mazel the muzzle as in the yes that your defined this way. your muzzle is higher than muzzle your muscles the level of I there's more to be said in this topic, but that's the brief the story. So are we subject to the laws of nature? Look we have those of nature we are subject to but fundamentally I eat is connected to a place that's hard to say their stylist to iron higher than the MIT CSS elements existence and therefore can connect to that. So even though there may be Mossad the Mosel you may have been born a certain month or something in the Mosel. That doesn't mean you're It can imposes itself and predetermines your life. It's a predisposition. Okay. Good next question. 770. Why is 770 not kept neither? So here's a two questions that came in over the months number one. Why is 770 such a bad condition, isn't it possible to make the place nicer and cleaner? Isn't it? A place of prayer supposed to isn't a place of isn't a place of prayer supposed to be beautiful. Is it lack of funds? Thanks. Another person wrote taken higher up Simon. How are you? This question will probably one of the funnier questions you receive a dominant seven seventy every day. Although the show's taken care of very well. There's one issue that bothers me a lot every time I wash my hands before doubling there's never any paper towels to wipe one's hands with besides on Shabbos. They have these bloggers which don't can't control myself. Sorry. They have these blowers was don't even blow out how to We have to remember some seventies not a Regular Show. It's the rebels based message above its World Headquarters. So you're wondering why am I writing to you? Why don't I talk to the God boy. It's exactly what I was wondering. The answer is quite simple. I'm not going to get too far. Perhaps a group of vitim can get together wealthy people and sponsor the paper towels for the whole year how much it would cost 20 grand a year. I have heard of or read somewhere that the rebel one's been warned by if I bring that there's no towel by the sink to wipe one's hands. With and when there's a towel it's soaking with the Simon behave. Okay, well everything this program never know what's going to come your way. So first I want to refer you to episode 132 which interesting I did speak about something about 770 and and decorum. So on the two questions actually contradict each other the second one says it's being taken care of seven seven other one says it's not. Well, let's start with first of all these social carnatic I mentioned before everything they should who knocks on car has very clear rules and laws about Hill whose basic analysis the cleanliness of it keeping it even nicer than your own. It's a Malcolm College. It's a MIG - Matt. It's a base. I'm English. And we all have these some of us know once the rebels self at times when he saw something that was on the floor you pick up a piece of paper garbage. And so on. Once that ever came to dominate the Ahmad. I think it was Memphis from 770 as he comes to the Almond by misery. He sees a few bags behind the behind the helmet there near the orange kadish never looks calls over was this You can hear on the tape on the video help set that I bought was a show since the show was with contest though. And then the rabbit says I'm only given the meaning at the shamans for gaming time bothered. Benjamin the pole Belgium under the floor which means you would go with his beard and sweep. The floor themselves me the board me the egg on the board. He would sweep the floor of a show can see the rebels aggravation. So let's make one thing clear. There's no justification for an unclean and underneath and on or disorganized show. I know we all say this when we tell people who come he says the engine room of the Babbitt's engine room of the world engine rooms. Don't look very clean if you go into the boiler rooms, You go to the bottom of the ship. That's all a nice nice explination and maybe has some value to it. But then the days are still has a lockers and as I just described she loves to be neat specially the debits show. So I don't know there's no excuse for it. It's a matter of all of us compare operating they got by him have to do their part. But remember it's a show of thousands of people that one can't be following everyone around and just looking at the debe sensitivity to how clean the school should be. Each of us thought of it as such and we treated a shrew. Concern own personal domain and the holy domain make the shmatte especially that position would change. So I look at ourselves. I look at myself. I look at you. I don't think we can blame somebody as far as the paper towels go. I don't know. I mean I use those blowers and I think they did blow air hot air, but I'm not going to debate on the topic mean. It's probably to save money. I'm not going to get into the discussion. Why not use paper towel just use paper towels. That should be brought up in the gut biome is not my area of expertise or death. Only not my domain of authority. So but I am reiterate again - rules to be clean neat and that's what the governor over shoulders period no excuses. Okay. Next question is really a request favor that I was asked of me. Hi, Rabbi Jacobsen. I have a request if you can do me a favor my sound in might sound interesting I suffer from depression and anxiety. It came to the point that I feel and I need to take Something to give me some relief. I'm not a big fan of medication. So I'm wondering if I can use your show. If you can throw out a question to your audience and acquire if anybody has been helped with these kinds of issues through alternative medicine by a homeopathic doctor Etc. As you said your shows an interactive Community forum, and if people respond with the name of doctor or doctors, please for you can forward it to my email it gives us his email. Thanks in advance. That's like a rabbit. So this Davis so I'm doing exactly that a request of one of the listeners if anybody has any leads or directives is helping a person. I'm sure could help others as well. And since we're ready on the topic, it's a good opportunity since I do have the public forum here. If you do have recommendations in mental health or other areas, please share them and we will have a list of resources in case anybody does contact us either privately or something. I read on in the pub and the week. The program we can direct them to different individuals. Obviously all this is confidential. So whatever you share you don't have to share your name. If you do share a name, you'll be completely confidential and Anonymous, but I will pass it on to this fellow and again, I really feel honored to be able to be a offer this service that we can all help each other because you never know who you know a referral a reference a lead and so on. Okay now we have a bunch of follow-ups. But because of the mezuzah and other issues IC am not going to have the time to do it. So I apologize. I will do one follow up that way at least we'll get one done and I'll do the others next week in the following weeks one of the topics we spoke about in previous episodes. What defines a habad custard So few comments came in I'll just read them three comments be specific one of the cities that is a generation without a debe is forced to ask that very, who are we type of question? I don't know if I would I would agree with that will not a generation without a debe mile Holland women the Masha Masha Afghan women mccamish read st. Louis as obtained by this a rabbit never forsakes his people at every gate Cambridge Tyvek as the docks his father told him when the after that I met ashes and stalkers. And that's coming to cells but we have it up. Okay, and a third comment was I think a constant Chabad is someone who uses everything in the world including technology to spread you describe the Exodus for Ibaka not have a phone that was good maybe in the times of the rubber tire shop now barking can spread you describe their free time if they have a phone, okay? Discuss the something up for discussion not going to comment more on that finally was another issue with the follow-up on secular studies in schools high Rabbi Jacobsen. I would like to understand what's all the paranoia with the government and the secular education schools from my understanding. It's not that the government wants to take over our schools. They just want the kids to have basic knowledge of English language and math and the like to be able to navigate Society after they finish their studies in school. Was it the represent tension that we Shouldn't know how to read and write the know basic math. I think there's an over reaction here. I think you can be from and Sedition be educated and have Panos about hover. Why do the from have to be poor? I don't think the rebels intentions were that from Jews should be struggling with pain us. I think many things have changed with higher education for the from Community where you have from colleges separate from men and women, whereas when the rebel spoke about going against going to University was concerned that people should drift away from users guide because of it I think times Have changed and we need to chill out a little bit. I don't know if you listen to the program. I addressed this very direct. I don't agree with some of the things you're saying just go back to those episodes and trying to remember which episodes they were. I didn't mark it down but it's basically a few weeks ago was probably episodes 12:39 240 241 that I spoke about this and I don't as I said some of the things you say agree with but the question really is here. What comes what makes Spinosa isn't necessarily higher education and most importantly the government doesn't have to be intervening. We're smart enough for her. These people have been here for thousands of years. We could figure it out. And if we have an issue we'll deal with it ourselves. Internally. We'll figure out what to empower our young men and women and if you look at it, you know young women and women thank God of joke about the trouble that you see in the secular world. We don't have most of those issues. Yes, they're things to talk about we talked about it in previous episodes. I just wanted to read it for the record. Okay. Let me go now the other follow-ups as I said, I'll do next week. The CID is question. God in or out we were taught that God is outside of us extend this I learned something new. We all have a piece of God in us. What should be the meditation by diverting on one hand. It says valid for named me after a moment. She means sustained notable home before whom you stand we also take three steps back which seems to be in line with the idea that God is somewhat sitting outside us their Exodus talks about how diving is that Vader to reveal the peace of God that is inside us and Ask the question. I forgot to thank you for the service to humanity. Your lectures website books Etc is amazing and has a great impact on my life. Yes, your Kaya. Okay, so God inside or out so I discussed this in episode 83 since this was rephrase the bit I'll respond briefly but an 80 episode 83 I discussed the bar of length. So first of all, there's a minor has AA that says whom became a shillelagh, but in element came a God is the space of the world or the occupies the space of God's existence, but existence is not God in ALA mccamey. So God is an entire the entire day of God is far beyond existence and therefore outside of existence outside meaning not outside of physical space, but beyond you can't say like pantheism Spinoza argued God is nature nature is God. No God is nature, but nature is not God. God is basement space is not God. God is a lot more. That's We say have Ayah who are like him Baruch Hashem elokenu Hashem elokenu. Ah, what's the survival became a viola King always in everything and the cane is God as he manifests in nature and the Kim's Big Mate hot Eva the nature have Ayah is the door that it transcends nature and transcends existence. Have I only came is that the God has Beyond is the god that's within so I wouldn't say outside in because as the cuts could ever said they asked him as a child where they've asked him. Where is God she said where is God not? They said that will give you a penny if you tell us where God is. He said I'll give you a penny if you tell me where God is Not. So God is within everything but is not defined by the everything. So the answer is both we talked save of Kalama molecule and the molecule Amin mamala as in Houma K.Michelle LM is my mother has Sam Puckett. He fills the space and then we say God is beyond a sash - artists tiny male he fills the Earth, but then there's we say God is beyond existence and then he's even beyond the Beyond this Exodus elaborates upon and then he joins all the together because God is beyond the Beyond can join the god alloh Kim and Javi. I know he combines a very end of the king. That's the short of it what it means in Practical applied to this apply to our lives is that there are theories that speak about a God that's beyond us. You want a relationship with God you have to live an ascetic lifestyle go out of your natural order and routines others say no there's no such thing as beyond God is right here. God is nature and nature is God. And you find God in your personal life be ethical be kind and so on both are not complete. The first one is ignoring existence and God created existence and yes manifested himself in existence and even manifested himself intense fears always be on them. So called an image in which created the Divine human being the human being degraded selam. Aleykum. The Divine image I got has no image because it's beyond image, but he chose a part of himself. So to speak he chose to manifest the reflection of the Divine in a structure and we that part of God is within us and when you say helical to come and Mom Amish when you say that you are the selam aleykum that your life your custard you do kindness. Emulate God's kindness a lot of Bedrock of man who con una fata con maru' Rama Vitara you emulating God's ways are faculties are aligned with God's attributes. That's how God manifested in existence and that we need to have because that's the governor did it but octane but if you only have that you don't you're not having the experience of the Divine Beyond existence the or of recognizing the Raymond was events of the have flaw the grand or the magic The Mystery of the Divine. So how do you reconcile the two so we have both their part times where we experience the divine within us when you thank God for food for sustenance for life for shelter for all the blessings. That's God as it relates to you and then you come to realize there's a God Beyond you and the god. Beyond is one with the god that's with it. So we both have Transcendence, but without asceticism and we don't have the just limited ourselves in the material world. We also could experience the Transcendence that's beyond existence together with the divine within existence together. They all come of course for Miss year comes will be the completion of both dimensions by the third dimension. So we have the absolute save of a mile. Okay. Now, let's do the essays. this is still essays from last year's 2018 contest will continue reviewing them until we run out of them or until we begin essays of this year's contest and I mentioned again the essay contest your chance to both express your voice see this relevant in a personal issue or a global issue or some contemporary life Challenger issue using synthesis to address that issue and you can win bonus $10,000 because even just doing that is already a reward but Getting also $10,000 for the effort is potential for us is is the first prize second prize 3600 third prize is $1,000 and a fourth $500 prize specifically exclusively for students. So now let's go to the essay contest to the am sorry to the essays of this week. One is the first one the value of our constant struggles Sarah Schwartz. H32 Granada, Granada Hills, California That's consistent to some of the things we spoke about today. Do you ever feel you are constantly repeating the same struggles keep hitting the same walls and getting stuck. It feels so frustrating whether your negative thoughts are close with your negative thoughts are clothed in anxiety depression addiction laziness self-consciousness or lust if you are human you have them and you wish you could just get rid of them. You want to be healed happy? Trust me friend, you're not alone. We regular humans all struggle with these internal battles and chapters 27 and 28 of tiny adulterer buried the finds. Our life's Mission as embracing our inter internal struggles and discovering the advantageous purposes of having them. This essay will explore this topic. And yes, and she goes on to explore it in a very personal way. I really like reading this and how we must accept the reality that we are created the struggle fight one battle at a time number three feel the reward of And of the satisfaction we give to God very good application of Tanya's those chapters and with practical ideas at the end that really can help a person think in a very real at realistic way. So this essay as all other essays that we review each week are posted at meaningful have.com / my life and as well if you'd subscribe to our weekly email we send out the new essays as they're posted as say number one, okay? KSA second, essay is I meant Transcendental mediation in light of us in this David bressman age 35 Los Angeles, California job is a mediator this essay. I must say extremely impressive. And did receive one of the highest marks. I just read them as I mentioned a few weeks ago last week that already not necessarily the right order, but this is top-notch essay. I'm a certified mediator David reitze mediation is also known as alternative dispute resolution ADR. I took an interest in this field a couple of years after I received ordination for Diana's rabbinical judicial ordination. I will address how one can overcome Stark differences and Discord when differences cannot be worked out between individuals. I call this method acidic transcendental mediation the tools to overcome Discord are found in the considered sources I will present I will note that this article can benefit both an experienced mediator and a Layman. I personally think must read especially if you're interested in these matters and who doesn't have challenges like this and he goes on to firstly to explain mediation facilitative mediation evaluated mediation toolbox mediation, and then in mediation in light of Exodus a true contribution, I think to that bridge between a real issue in our times and the Contribution to it Hasidic insights and perspective about Maria and with the different sources from citizen different places that he cites. Excellent essay, really? I'm going to think of a way that we should probably more than just post. This probably make it very prominent because it really can be part of different mediation. Let the knowledge ease and processes if you're in that field, I definitely recommend reading it or even if you're not in the field as I said, it's has True Value. Okay, the first third essay for today is increased motivation for change after repeated failures and Hebrew. I bought us a motivational Africa slow not causally vanished name tilts abootman age 46 Ramat hasharon, Israel Asuka. Okay, it's based on the criticisms volume 6 page 57 to 68 and it really is all about exactly as the title implies to go the difficulties of life and how really they become a catalyst or a catapult you to creating true change personalizes it in a very personal way with a real story and a case study. So to speak and then goes on to say how Based on that system which goes into the whole discussion of tshuva and making mistakes and correct them from mistakes how we can learn from that this approach of after what failure can really end up becoming is a tremendous tool for success and growth and change. Spells it out with different stages first stage being. What we called La Villa Hyman, which is for love and to believe God has his will has it to be careful. And to be cautious and put spells it out and bunch of steps that anyone can apply to this issue of challenges failures and how they can motivate you to change okay with that. We conclude the essays of this week good and we conclude this week's episode episode. 243 so everyone should have a very good kadish volcanic craters a good Trader schrott readers of his sculptures are haters that can we connect even stronger with the lab and other labs came through him to all that IBM and what they wanted of us in bringing the data Shri Vishnu Canterbury sacrum implementing and bring your scissors to life in our personal lives to all those we come in contact with Could a very good kadish we here every Sunday 8:00 to 9:00 p.m. And I remind you again about participating in this year's contest. It's alive contest now and all the good guidelines and rules are available online meaningful live.com contest and everyone have a very blessed because I said it with a dish and we'll see each other again next Sunday be well.
Addressing the Personal and Emotional Needs of Our Community and Answering the Most Pressing Questions of Our Lives -- from the Perspective of Chassidic Thought. TOPICS • Chassidus Applied to Shevat and Parshas Bo 0:17 • How should we react to the recent Mezuzah controversy? 21:45 • Is there an intrinsic value to keeping Chassidus in its pristine state and not trying to apply it to specific situations? 37:28 • What did the Rebbe mean by calling someone a “plain-clothed chassid”? 43:05 • Mazel: Do Jewish people have luck? 46:30 • Why is 770 not kept neater? 49:56 • Request: References for mental health specialists  54:31 • Follow-up (episodes 241-242):     o What defines a Chabad Chassid? 56:32     o Government intervention in our schools 57:34 • Chassidus question: Is G-d inside or outside of us? 59:29 • My Life 2018 essays:     o The Value of Our Constant Struggles, Sara Schwartz, 32, Granada Hills, CA; 01:05:51     o Transcendental Mediation in Light of Chassidus, Dovid Bressman, 35, Los Angeles, CA 01:07:42     o Increase Motivation for Change after Repeated Failures, Tirtza Butman, 46, Ramat, HaSharon, Israel 01:09:53  Submit your question now at http://www.meaningfullife.com/mylifelive or email: Mylife@meaningfullife.com. 