A Man Who Wanted Nothing — And Had Everything

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

There was a a fast and a wedding that was taking place. It was supposed to be like the wedding of the century. It was two very wealthy Jews. Their children were getting married to each other. And if you've ever been to the wedding of a wealthy wealthy individual, it's it's over the top in everything that is there. It's over the top in how big the band is. It's over the top the kind of food that they're serving. It's over the top in the decor. It's over the top in everything. So everybody was excited to everything. So everybody was excited to come to this wedding of the two wealthy men marrying off their children. Now, one of the uh one of the people that was coming to the to the fast was a man by the name of he is the cousin of the kala and he walked in. He's busy learning in BMG in Lakewood and he came in a little bit late and he walked past the table that had all of the sometimes they have very fancy tables with cards like hanging down from the ceiling. You like hanging down from the ceiling. You have to know how to pick out your card to see which table you're going to sit in. He missed that. And he walked into the main ballroom and he's looking around. Where's he going to sit? He's looking at this. M is packed. Everybody's there. And he sees one table, a 12 seat, a 12 seat seat table. And there's only 11 people sitting there. He says, "You know what? There's an empty seat. Let me go sit down over there." He sits down at the table that unbeknownst to him is the 11 other wealthiest men that are at this.

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1. 0:00There was a a fast and a wedding that was taking place. It was supposed to…
2. 0:31everything. So everybody was excited to come to this wedding of the two wealthy men marrying…
3. 1:02like hanging down from the ceiling. You have to know how to pick out your card…
4. 1:33wealthiest men that are at this. And so now the younger man the colo guy from…
5. 2:37up the good work. There was one fellow at the table, a wealthy man who being…
6. 3:09family on both sides. And of we got out a living and we're able to maintain…
7. 3:41than you and your wife make in an entire year and says yes I'm aware of…
8. 4:45extraordinary miracles. Like the Ramban says at the end of last week's para everything in life…
9. 5:15people that although that we are very well-versed and we excel in the art of complaining,…
10. 5:45Yes, you could be. But to complain and you never has anything to complain about and…

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