Rabbi Dov Ber Cohen concludes a course on the distinction between goodness and holiness in Jewish life.
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Okay, so I basically for the last 3 months I've been saving your life. Saving your life because your life wasn't going to be particularly good. And now that you've done my course, if you do everything I told you to do, I guarantee you'll have a great life. Unbelievable. If you missed the course, I'm sorry. You're just going to be a mediocre loser like most people. That's not true, is it? That was a joke because you're all going to buy my book, The Essential Teachings, which is that course. I have a book called The Essential Teachings, which is the course that we did. So we spoke about this. We spoke about a few main things. Number one, having a clear goal. Do you have a clear goal? Are you very strong? What do I want to achieve in my life? Number two, having a clear path in order to achieve that goal. And number three, having the willpower to put in the effort that it's going to take to achieve that goal. That's it. So you have to make sure that you're doing what you need to do in order to be the person you want to be in order to live the life you want to live. And we said what you really want in life is happiness and self-worth and good relationships and meaning and health, physical, emotional,
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