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Message from an Amish Guy

664 views · Jan 5, 2026

Rabbi Yossi Bensoussan

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And this is what the mission I believe is trying to warn us against. Don't look until you're in the spot to look. Don't look. What am I supposed to do? Do I walk around with my eyes closed? No, no, no, no. Be in a place. Your place. Look around your place. I'll speak with an Amish guy today. One with this I'll speak with an Amish guy today at the wedding. And this guy says to me I said it's amazing. If you've ever seen like an Amish house or an Amish land, it's very it's like it they look like they're OCD. Like they're everything is like perfectly manicured and it's amazing. When you don't have like Netflix, like what you could do with your life. [laughter] It's incredible. It's unreal. And and I said to him I was like I'm so impressed with like how like and you see

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  2. 0:30today at the wedding. And this guy says to me I said it's amazing. If you've…
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  4. 1:31you stand on is land that represents you." And I was like, "Wow." For a guy…
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  6. 2:31Either way is wrong. Focus on your dollar dummies on where you're standing. You'll be much…
  7. 3:01And that judgment isn't bad or good. It's just a judgment of what do I need…

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