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CHAZAQ's Torah Talks #200 Rabbi Gavriel Friedman - The Purpose of it All

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Chazaq Organization

A talk on the purpose of life and Jewish existence, delivered by Rabbi Gavriel Friedman.

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Any time in life you've ever felt satisfaction is when you were involved in things that you felt that were meaningful. That that that's not esoteric. That's just think of any time you did something anytime you had a longlasting feeling of satisfaction and pleasure and joy and happiness was when there was you were involved in furthering that. Be involved with meaningful things. focus on that and you feel that incredible sense of accomplishment and that inner peace and joy that everyone's [Music] like welcome to Torah Talks Kazak's program with special guests. We have with us once again a very special guest our dear friend Ravgav all the way from Erat from Israel Barab. Welcome RV. How you doing? Amazing. Ah phenomenal and great. So exciting to Ah phenomenal and great. So exciting to have the RV be episode number 200. That's right. It's it's so hard for me to believe this but we've done already 200 episodes of Kazak Torah Talks. Uh that means we've had 199 special guests, different guests, but this is our first repeat guest of God Freiedman and uh we really appreciate the rabbi for joining us. How you doing? How's everything? Everything's great. Hashem, we're doing well. Good lord. Amazing. Amazing. Phenomenal. Great. So, we're going to be speaking on the topic of the purpose of

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  1. 0:00Any time in life you've ever felt satisfaction is when you were involved in things that…
  2. 2:03one uh catch himself rev? Well, I mean we I think we skipped a little bit,…
  3. 5:05what's everybody looking for? Happiness. Rabbi, that's it. The whole world wants to be happy. That's…
  4. 7:39And that's what we say. We're talking [Music] about Hold on. I'm going to go I'm…
  5. 10:09sure that you get sucked into the rat race, right? We got to make sure that…
  6. 12:46all. Any time in life you've ever felt satisfaction is when you were involved in things…
  7. 15:50meaning and it's right in my backyard. This thing called Judaism. It's meaningful. It's it's it's…
  8. 17:54versions of I don't mean like 1700 versions but maybe also but the older versions they…
  9. 20:29lives nationally? You can't say I have a really good aim. you know, I'm really quiet.…
  10. 23:02got to go for the top of the top. I don't I wonder if he heard…

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