Rabbi Zamir Cohen - The Great Secret to True Wealth

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

There was once a very poor man. He went to his Rabbi, a holy man known for miracles, and pleaded, "I want money to give to charity, not to waste on trivial nonsense." When the Rabbi heard this, he blessed him: "I bless you that you shall soon be rich." From that moment, everything he touched flourished and succeeded until he became very wealthy. At first, he truly did give to charity. That was the reason he had wanted all that money in the first place. But slowly, as the verse says, "Yeshurun grew fat and kicked." He reached a state where no poor person could even enter his house. Someone went and told his Rabbi, and the Rabbi immediately asked his assistant to prepare the carriage and the horses. When they arrived, he immediately ran down the stairs, went outside, and said, "Honored Rabbi, what an honor!" He opened the gates, served him a grand meal, and received him with great respect. "Honored Rabbi, to what do I owe this honor?" The Rabbi stood up, went to the window, called him over , and said, "Tell me, what do you see out there?" He looked, but didn't see anything special. He saw the street, people walking by, dozens of them. The

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1. 0:03There was once a very poor man. He went to his Rabbi, a holy man known…
2. 0:33kicked." He reached a state where no poor person could even enter his house. Someone went…
3. 1:04Rabbi told him, "Now, come, come with me." The Rabbi took him to the corner of…
4. 1:34people back." He was completely shaken. The Rabbi said to him, "When there is money, the…
5. 2:05that a person who keeps an animal at home is forbidden to eat as long as…
6. 2:36everything might forget the poor. On the other hand, when a person develops sensitivity to others…

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