The Hard Truths of Helping: Unexpected Battles Revealed #shorts

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

would know if I would have known then what I know now, I could promise you I would never have agreed to do it. But, if you would have told me 11 years ago, "These are the battles you're going to have. This is you know, you're going to have communities coming after you. You're going to have donors pulling out on you, threatening you, using money as tools. You're going to have people that you help stabbing you. You're going to have people that you can't help being angry that you can't cuz you can't If I would have known all the negative pieces emotionally, I would have never This is where you ended up in this avenue. >> No, I was planning on being rich in finance. I was going to be the guy giving money. Like I started in the beginning, it is a very lonely place. I'm not going to say it's not. Yeah. It's messages like the one I got. You want to know the hisuk? It's from messages like this. That's the hisuk. Okay? Being someplace and somebody coming over that doesn't even know me, never even spoke to me. The joke I say in the office, "You know the number one job working at Amudim is? To make me look good."

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1. 0:00would know if I would have known then what I know now, I could promise you…
2. 0:30emotionally, I would have never This is where you ended up in this avenue. >> No,…
3. 1:00How do you make me look good? By helping people that need help. Wow. That's the…
4. 1:30emergency and how we're going to deal with what. But, the empathy that we give that…
5. 2:02And you shouldn't know what it is, and I don't wish anything upon what I deal…

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