Big Jew in Big Law? Rabbi Yehuda Halpert on Torah, Careers & Keeping Standards in the Workplace

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You don't have to love your job, but you can't hate your job. And I'd say in the first one, two, three years of your experience at big law, you will have no problem keeping Torah um mitzvos. However, your expectation should be going in that you will be spending many, many, if not most of your waking hours at the law firm. You have to create a system for yourself that will allow you to continue to be successful um in terms of in terms of keeping to mitzvah. And also it's not about maintaining, it's about growing. about growing. >> One way to look at it or look at certain um developments is you're slipping. Another way to look at it is you have very high standards, maybe unrealistic high standards. >> The difference between slipping and reassessing and then reassessing again because after 6 months you say, "Okay, look, am I able to do this now? Have things changed? Shalom and welcome to Stark Tank. Stark Tank is a podcast about the challenges

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1. 0:00You don't have to love your job, but you can't hate your job. And I'd say…
2. 4:05years things kind of shift back and forth and you but as long as you're flexible…
3. 8:39talking about a very important point here and I'm not meaning to call out anybody specific…
4. 13:13being I shouldn't say just but being a successful lawyer was not how I saw myself…
5. 17:23you have to realize two things. As I said, the vast majority of your time is…
6. 21:59time and I one thing I will say to people I it's kind of funny cuz…
7. 26:32"I fall asleep the second I'm on the bus. I'm up all night." Like, "What about…
8. 30:38those are two So you have a you have two people who walked into the law…
9. 35:47anything. It's like you saw how people really responded differently to the exact same stimuli. And…
10. 40:19come back and connect in whatever way they wanted to connect. So we have a Jewish…

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