Ambition for Wealth: what is the Torah hashkafah?

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

I want to be a billionaire. I want to be really wealthy. I want to create generational wealth. People that feel that type of drive. People that have that type of urge. Is that something which is anti-ra? Is that something which is frowned upon in Judaism? So I believe that in this week's para tuma there are items that directly relate to this. Listen to this. One of the things that we have in this week's paral is the upon which the uponim would be put. And another thing that we have is the and there is a fascinating fascinating I mean like eyeopening in it's actually from what I if I remember it's actually but it's called it's on the riff. So if you'd like to see this inside, it's towards the very beginning. It's in the is going on the gar that says if someone puts his bed according to the north south direction. So he'll have and the brings a p remember this is not a proof that someone that puts his bed by the north south direction that he's going to wind up having it's the the is not referring to north this is a sim just to give you a placeholder a reminder as a as an indicator. It alludes to it. Many that bring in these types of contexts in these types of gar is just to serve as an indicator as an illusion as a placeholder as a way of remembering it. And they say I I assume when he says he's referring to to his to the of his what is the reason? Why should this be that if someone puts his bed north south that he will have? What does one have to

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1. 0:00I want to be a billionaire. I want to be really wealthy. I want to create…
2. 5:46decreed with. Like the shab says that there's no mazle for Jewish people. What that means…
3. 12:45are we are told by the Tyra that they were wealthy. Now, it seems certainly from…
4. 19:15because their overarching goal their overarching point and purpose towards which they were constantly pushing and…
5. 25:15for Hashem, give us a life of wealth and honor. It would seem that according to…
6. 31:45for this thing that you're blessing me because maybe it was a heavenly time of favor…
7. 39:04least I definitely want to want to bring an awareness to this you know I'll give…
8. 45:03or even if he attains all of these lofty levels because everything is from God And…
9. 51:27wealthy and how they made shitts with wealthy people. And it's you cannot help but notice…
10. 57:48the towns if I understand that expression correctly doesn't mean that he was one of the…

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