Shavuot: Are You Ready to Sacrifice for Your Learning - Rabbi Duvi Bensoussan

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So, we're very lucky. And these days, if I tell you that although this room might not be the largest, but we fit into this room 20 plus guys. Today, I believe we had almost 30 guys sitting and learning at the time where you wouldn't expect them to be found anywhere in the zip code. Yeah? We mentioned in the past that we started a challenge with a few guys trying to figure out if they would guys trying to figure out if they would take off 1 hour of work a day to go in an hour later every day. And then at the end of the month, to take a look and scale if they made anything less in their bottom line that month. We did this challenge with a few guys. And sure enough, at the end of the month, they came back and said, "Rabbi, you lost the bet." I said, "Really? Why? How's that?" He said, "Well, the truth is that we did not make the same as last that we did not make the same as last month." I said, "Oh my gosh, how many how much were you off by?" They said, "Well, the truth is we're not off. We didn't make less this month, we made more." I said, "Really? That's weird. Look at that. You worked an hour less a day, and you made more money this month? How did How's that?" He said, "Rabbi, I don't know. We worked less and we made more." So, we decided to take the challenge the next month to the next step. We stumbled on a weird recipe a recipe of a little bit of an investment in a bit

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