Counterfeit Pleasures | Rabbi Menachem Feifer

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[music] I once heard a beautiful quote from the someone was discussing the explosive growth of in America and Ra said I [music] predicted it right from the beginning. People said will never grow in America. They used to say in Europe I feel the infe America even the stones are not kosher. I knew it was going to flourish because I saw that in America the culture is to run [music] after pleasure and what pleasure is there in pleasure and what pleasure is there in the world greater than a black [music] kimar. You know we have to know that we have the greatest pleasure there is in the world and that is the pleasure of learning the hyra. When we realize that when we realize that all the other pleasures in the world are just a fleeing moment and they're gone it'll be easier to control ourselves and protect ourselves [music] from those pleasures. Story is told of a fellow who got a phone call one day and someone tells him, "I have a way you can make a lot of money in a very short amount of time." The fellow was curious. He went to meet

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1. 0:03[music] I once heard a beautiful quote from the someone was discussing the explosive growth of…
2. 0:33pleasure and what pleasure is there in the world greater than a black [music] kimar. You…
3. 1:03The fellow was curious. He went to meet the person in his office and the man…
4. 1:34with $20 bills. And he says, "Boss, not one place caught it. The banks [music] tried…
5. 2:04against the wall and they say, "What do you have in those at the shade cases?"…
6. 2:34says, "What just happened to you? You're white as a ghost." He says, "I just saved…
7. 3:04fellow always drops the money and runs away. And they take the money and bring it…
8. 3:34fake. It's shallow. It's meaningless. It's false. It's counterfeit. [music] Grab on to the real pleasure…

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