Rav Aryeh Lebowitz Answers Your Burning Questions (100th Episode Special!)

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not supposed to try to be good. We're supposed to try to be better than we were yesterday. We're supposed to try to maximize our potential. Having said that, I love Gdolean biographies. I read all of them. And uh Silver said, "Look, you're never going to be, but that's okay. You could be you could be something else. It's not always the best learner or the guy that you want to push into." And and truth is, you don't want to push anybody anywhere. Is this the kind of thing that you'd come home every day and you would be happy with every day and you would be happy with how you spent your day? Um, it has nothing to do with denigrating balatum. That would be absurd. Shalom and welcome to Stark Tank. Start tank is a podcast about the challenges and opportunities of being a mentor in the workforce. This is a very very special episode. It is our 100th episode and to celebrate this special occasion and to celebrate this special occasion with us, it's a great honor and privilege to be joined by Ari Libert. So Ari, thank you so much for joining us. >> My pleasure. What an honor to be here for the 100th episode. I've enjoyed many of them. >> Thank you. And we even got a few shoutouts in different. So maybe just by way of background to sub's conversation. We're mainly going to be doing a Q&A. listeners on our Stark Tank WhatsApp group sent in some wonderful questions we'll get to, but maybe just to frame the conversation, a bit of personal background about yourself and your career deliberations. Were you always planning on being a rabbi? Did you ever consider becoming a mentor in the workforce? And maybe after that, we'll

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1. 0:00not supposed to try to be good. We're supposed to try to be better than we…
2. 4:04person should make sure to learn a bit um you know during the day and during…
3. 8:11learning which you alluded to before what are your thoughts about developing a healthy sense of…
4. 12:22other field where people read about like a biography of a uh of a president and…
5. 16:59or kiru and um and and it has nothing to do it has very little to…
6. 21:07in uh in your shul. Be someone who's who's a doer in the uh in the…
7. 25:12need a backup plan. I I don't believe in a backup plan. You have to have,…
8. 29:47not an hour like that's that's where the definition of a shear is and then like…
9. 33:54and and dkah becomes a very big challenge. >> Yeah. I mean it's I think that…
10. 37:56rabbi even later in life yes everyone knows you have to have a rabbi but it's…

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