Shiur Torah #86 Personal Story, Is it Ambition or Greed to Ownership (Ramat Beit shemesh, Israel)

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

Thank you for having me. It's first time here at uh Bimish. So, it was a nice ride over here. The taxi ride was fun. About twice the uh length that I thought it was going to take, but we got here. So, uh today, since most of you have never heard the story, I'll tell you a little bit about my story. coming from Wall Street. Why would anybody that's surrounded by millions and millions of dollars ever leave that and go and work dollars ever leave that and go and work for free for the one boss that actually matters, which is Hashem, and um do kiru, try to save souls, try to help people do chivva, try to help people convert, try to fulfill the purpose of this world. Uh but uh since obviously uh there's some people online or uh perhaps here that have heard the story before, usually what I try to do is tell the first parts of the story. If anybody has questions, obviously I answer them during the lecture. You don't have to wait till the end or anything. You can ask me even during the story. Uh and ask me even during the story. Uh and then I try to go into something to connect to something that's more relevant to how we could uh take this story and actually implement it in our own life because the story is interesting uh at least to me to most people. But it won't affect you if you can't take something out of it and take it into your own life. None of you ever go through the same experience that I went through. Uh but uh nonetheless, there's still a lot of valuable lessons that you can learn from it. Each person something else. So uh prior to

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1. 0:02Thank you for having me. It's first time here at uh Bimish. So, it was a…
2. 5:40that's in the Torah, then he's perfect. He can't make a mistake. The problem with all…
3. 12:21him. It's an obligation because it's the only way you can stay connected. If you're not…
4. 18:38And when no one tells you anything, it justifies it. When no one tells you you're…
5. 24:49of this uh hell hole that caused me this problem. I thought it was over. So…
6. 30:56problem. And Hashem decided to give me a solution I wasn't prepared for. So, I'm trying…
7. 37:14staka as we talked about before the sh this is part of the problem so I…
8. 43:25source. I feel like I'm talking to this machine. It's unbelievable. I've never seen anybody as…
9. 49:36go after two different things. Before I go into it, you had a question. How many?…
10. 55:47is understanding why we're even here. One of the main things that gets us away from…

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