Rabbi Chay Amar - How Do We Become?

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I always [Music] Shahal Israel. [Music] I don't [Music] love me. [Music] [Music] So there was a greatidic master. There was a greatidic master by the neighborhood of one day one of his students came to complain to him. Rabbi, when I discovered philosophy and your teachings, I was all fired up. I was all fired up. I felt a special connection. I felt so close to God. It was a very intimate connection in everything that I did. My relationship with my wife, the relationship with my children, my study of Tua, my prayer, even my working, everything had a very very deep working, everything had a very very deep meaning and brought me to great heights. But now, 15 years later, I feel empty. I feel void. I feel that I'm just doing the motions without feeling the emotions. What should I do? Karim looked at him and said, "You're not the first one to ask such a not the first one to ask such a question." King Solomon and his great wisdom asked such a question and he said, Why do you ask why the olden days were better than these? It's not from wisdom. You ask this. And he told him a story. Story of two individuals, two men which were very very successful two men which were very very successful businessmen. Unfortunately, they lost all their wealth and they were on the brink of poverty and they decided to go to the president of the community to take a loan instead of using currency that's not current will say they had to borrow $100,000 each one of them. They had they received a loan and

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1. 0:03I always [Music] Shahal…
2. 3:50two men which were very very successful businessmen. Unfortunately, they lost all their wealth and they…
3. 7:30you ask this or you borrowed this it was alone. You see what happens in life?…
4. 11:14there's a big hole. You're crying to the world that you're the biggest power. You're showing…
5. 14:55The result of 20 years of social media platform growing and growing is what we see…
6. 18:37appears to be like six hours depending who's speaking. Hopefully it's not true today. But I…
7. 22:21because silence means that I'm going to have to listen to my inner voice, my inner…
8. 25:59So, we were talking about anxiety. Whoever has a white Tesla, this is your time. So…
9. 29:35You know why I'm not married? Thank God I'm married 30 years happily married. You know…
10. 33:09And after all this time, I started becoming very depressed. And it was getting darker and…

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