A discussion on the path to a meaningful and joyful life according to Torah values.
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When people are looking to go and have goals in life, they have to look at the ends in mind. Where do I want to be? And how do we get there? How to get there is through simple small steps. Very and often life people [music] make a mistake and think it's yiddish kai Judaism is all nothing. I got to BE PERFECT. I GOT to and that's what it's about. It's not the reality. The reality is small simple steps make a person happy because they see progress and that's so so important. [music] and to grow and to be together with everyone. >> Okay, great. We're looking forward. So, before we before we we have a very special topic we're talking about happiness, something that we're all striving for and we're we're all searching for, but I guess Rabbi, I guess you could start us just if we could learn some something more about yourself and the great work you're involved. >> Thank you so much. So I'm currently the head of school at Zucker Jewish Academy of Queens here. It's a school that started just last year. We started with 17 students. Thank God today we have 82 students. The goal is that there should be no Jewish children in public school. We want to be able to provide an amazing
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- 3:44in in the spirituality. And that's the battle and the balance that we face in life.…
- 4:44want to share with you my three-step approach to life. And I hold that this approach…
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- 6:45member, when a person is just a worker in an office, people are watching. Talk is…
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