What True Success Means - Rabbi Zecharia Wallerstein ZT"L (Mesirat Nefesh) STORY

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

taken one night off to take my grandchildren ice skating I'll show everyone's the world also I've been went into the desert to get away and there's the bush hi he tried to get away from Hashem and go and be by himself it's like ah someone like him you're going back to Egypt think Christ real loud Ah that's but yeah if he wanted to sit and rest boom there goes you'll save so I wanted to go ice skating with my grandchildren so I go ice skating and this guy I don't know comes over to me says you're at Wall Street I'm like yeah he says you know we have a major problem going on in Brooklyn I'm like what's the on in Brooklyn I'm like what's the problem he says you know I run the Jewish Board of Mental Health um on Quentin and Corner Quentin and Coney we have all these young girls coming to us for therapy they're not in school they're on the streets they don't go to school they sleep all day they're out all night so as much therapy as we're doing if you're not in school and you're just chilling and hanging out on therapy isn't working we need a high school for these kids I'm like so make so build one like what do you want for me like I'm busy right he says you you have to open

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1. 0:30taken one night off to take my grandchildren ice skating I'll show everyone's the world also…
2. 1:00on in Brooklyn I'm like what's the problem he says you know I run the Jewish…
3. 1:31busy right he says you you have to open a high school I said listen to…
4. 2:01deal you give me a floor for free in your building you give me 12 therapists…
5. 2:31and I sit down and I call a meeting and they my girls are very scared…
6. 3:02and I'm like okay listen we have to open a high school and they're like what…
7. 3:33and a girl gets up and says am I look at me I'm like yes we're…
8. 4:04nothing you would have said forget it the greatest reward for me in BCA is to…
9. 4:36I don't need any Kudos that is the Vegeta that is the best reward there is…

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