Parashat Vayetze - Can jealousy be a positive thing in your life? - Rabbi Alon Anava

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so there was once two factories uh right next to each other manufacturing the same product it's a true story and they were both doing more or less the same one of the factories hired a certain worker that came added Twisted shifted did whatever he could and slowly slowly that factory started becoming a slowly that factory started becoming a little bit more stronger than the other whatever marketing he did whatever management he changed whatever he could in the factory and suddenly slowly that factory became stronger than the other one to a point that it became so stronger that this H worker came to the owner and says listen we are so much more stronger now that we can buy now the other guy and the owner of the company says no no no I'm not interested in buying the the competition interested in buying the the competition guy doesn't understand why why won you want to buy the competition and he continues his work and the factory is growing better and stronger sales is stronger everything is becoming greater the other Factory is becoming much more weaker in the market and he goes again to the owner of the company and says listen this is a good opportunity now we can buy our competition he's struggling he doesn't have work we're crushing him no two three attempts like this at some point the guy is like you know what I'm

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