Fantasy vs. Reality: Choose God’s Light - Charlie Harary

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

So I want to share with you an idea as to why this is maybe the most important thing we can talk about now maybe. So without getting into details because once I get into these details I get lost. Talk a little bit about football just to get started for a second. I can't get too much into it. One of the great teams in the larger in the larger uh east coast was failing for many many many years. They switched their coach and the next year they switched their coach they went to the playoffs. So there's a lot of to the playoffs. So there's a lot of hawkers. The Y new offens offensive systems, whatever. They interview the players at the end of the year. They're on a losing team. Year after year, same players, a maybe one or two draft picks, but the same team. Year after year after year after year after year, they're losing. The coach comes in separately. New coach, new team, new coaching staff. The next year, they go to the playoffs. They go, "How's that possible?" Sam Crow. Everyone had a different answer. And Everyone had a different answer. And this one answer that I saw that stuck out of me. This is years ago. He said, "When the coach of our old team came in, he said, "Let's win the game." When the coach of the new key team came in, he said, "We're going to win the Super Bowl." When you play for the game in front of you, you win, you lose. When you're clear with where you're going, when you're gearing up in day one to play in the Super Bowl, when you're a playoff team in training camp, you play a different game. You see the end. You're already at the end. And when

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10. 24:41to lose. Just because it's hard, we don't have to lose to them. We're the Jewish…

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