I Gave Up Everything And Was Still Single & Childless

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

Before I went in, my COO said, "Jack, I'm just letting you know, this this guy is Israeli. He's very direct and might ask you personal questions." I'm like, "Yeah, I can handle it." And he said, "No, but really, can you handle it?" And I said, "Yeah, I can handle it." So, we go in, we sit down, there's his chief of staff, myself, and the COO, the four of us, and he says, "Okay, whose project is this?" I said, "Jack, it's great. How many people? What's the budget?" Da da da da da. [music] I'm firing statistics at him, letting him know what it is. And I said, "The askofa is you've got to like be the change, you know, you want to see in the world, thanks Gandhi. Uh you know, you've got to put it into action. It's not enough to know." He goes, "Ah, so what are you doing to be goes, "Ah, so what are you doing to be the change?" And I'm like, "Ah, here's one of those questions." I'm like, I'm telling him what I'm working on, the tachyon, the musavat, and this and that. And he says, "No, why are you single?" And I was like, >> [laughter] >> Like, wasn't expecting that. And I said, "I don't know why I'm single." I don't know. He goes, "No, why are you single?" Looking into my soul, you know. And I'm like, >> Do you ever feel that you know what's best for you and you get confused when Hashem messes up your plan? Well, Jackie Glazier's plan to get married and start a family did not go the way that she planned it. But boy, was she happy that

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9. 36:45reason why I went into working with singles full-time, I made a deal with God. I…
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