What is the Secret to a Happy Life? - Rabbi Yoel Gold

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Yitzchak Botton’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

A few weeks ago, I was shopping for Shabas in one of the local supermarkets in LA. It's called Labraa Kosher. As I'm checking out, I have my bags in my hand and I'm walking out the door and I hear someone yell, "Rabbi Gold! Rabbi Gold." I turn around, I see a middle-aged woman. She says, "Rabbi Gold, have I got a story for you?" Now, I always tell people, my brother's in real estate. I always tell people that whatever a good piece of real estate is to a real estate investor, that's what a good true story is to me. If I hear someone wants to share a story with me, I'll be here all night. I put my bags down and I'm all ears. And she proceeds to tell me the following story. She says, "My daughter, my 15-year-old daughter was walking on Lera. That's the main avenue. I don't know what it is in Queens. It's like 13th Avenue in Bor Park, Coney Island in Flatbush. That's Labraa in LA." My daughter was walking on Labraa. She was walking past the young Israel of Labraa. She notices there's a officer that's issuing a ticket to a part to a car that's parked illegally by a an expired meter. So she looks at the car, she looks at the officer, she looks at the synagogue, the shaw, the young Israel, and she realizes that this car must belong to

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2. 3:44She sees you walking over to the car. It's amazing how a story when it's personal.…
3. 7:31I really appreciate what you did. This is the most wonderful thing anyone has ever done…
4. 11:18Shine immigrated from Ireland to America. She settled in Detroit. She worked for my grandparents. And…
5. 15:02They did this for 75 years. They tracked these kids for 75 years, a lifetime. It…
6. 19:14organic vegetables, green vegetables, fresh organic green vegetables. I brought it home and I juiced breakfast,…
7. 23:08like a jigsaw puzzle. Every piece is different. We're just different. Everybody is different. You know,…
8. 26:52He was panicking and there was a flight attendant that was walking past the aisle and…
9. 30:39five people can chase away 100? That's crazy. How do you have five people chasing away…
10. 34:27it safe, it's finished. Okay. I'm telling the story to my rebi Friday night. We're having…

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