Is It Wrong to Play The Lottery? - Ask The Rabbi Live with Rabbi Mintz

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rubber mints mentioned that every morning we say the brush have called Seraphim gives us everything we need if a person bar is like a weekly lottery ticket is that contradiction to the brother and does the Torah have any thoughts on whether one or should or shouldn't buy a lottery ticket each week so by ladder to shoot itself we won the lottery and puts the bad letter up to buy it obviously to win it I'm sure the person by letter all right is there any tour thoughts on whether one should or should not play the lottery well should not play the lottery well everything is the torah' thought it's a it's a person we said we're told that if you want to play the lottery don't buy five tickets buy one ticket because God wants you to win so the wind you don't have to buy more than one so so so that's especially unless it's a lottery with only ten people in it you might buy five tickets but everybody fits a million little people and what's no different standard one so it's a it's something that a person can uh can try

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1. 0:00rubber mints mentioned that every morning we say the brush have called Seraphim gives us everything…
2. 0:34should not play the lottery well everything is the torah' thought it's a it's a person…
3. 1:07something that a person can uh can try it's not against our law to try to…
4. 1:38give it to us after some type of action passive action so buying a lottery ticket…
5. 2:11a very big contribution so I got wasn't me I guess oh man I would have…

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