LIFE: Not A Choice But The Sum of All Your Choices

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

[Music] what is the word is anybody know what the word means what's that calculation correct that's why math in modern hebrew math is called bone right math is called question uh uh the the uh what do you call it for torah time people we are we're on page eight fifty we're in the ba we're the the last uh section of partial schoolcast uh mostly means calculation the gomorrah says it also means rulers a moshell is a ruler somebody who rules other people is a moshel and al kane yomru hamoshli the gomorrah says those who rule over their yates or hara make a husband make a calculation the value the reward of him it's against the loss of eric and against hora that means when of eric and against hora that means when a person has got a choice to make i have a choice i could stay in bed and sleep or i could get up in daven with a minion now getting up in the morning is we all know gehennam right it never gets easy right everybody could always sleep a little and be you can always everybody wants to sleep late you're not some people i have trouble getting involved says everybody everybody has trouble getting up in the morning it's always hard to get up nobody wants to get up right you sit up i heard from rabbi tats once great advice if you ever wake up not if you ever wake

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