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The Black Dot: How Judging Others Decides How Happy You Are -Avot 17( Mishnah 1:6)

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Rabbi Yehoshua Zitron

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How late can I go until? >> Whenever you want. >> Present in the front side there, that's good. I want to hear the person in the back say that often though. Uh-huh. All right. First and foremost, um I would like to thank Rabbi Rudich and his entire family cuz I'm sure he whatever thankfulness that you guys give him, it's definitely not enough to open up your home week after week and not only that to make sure that the speakers are there and to follow up and to make sure if someone cancels, it's a lot of work and I only know it from the receiving end but I could already see that it's a it's a tremendous amount of work. You should have a tremendous amount of of uh hakaras hatov to him. And I could just borrow who should give him that a good bench him to continue doing more and more and grow with this tenfold from what it is right now. All right, I guess we don't have a lot of spardom over here otherwise we would have heard a lot of louder amens. Okay. So, I would like to actually speak about a a topic that I feel is of upmost importance. And that is, you know, and I'll let me backtrack just a little bit. You guys come to class, you're going to school, you're going to seminar, whatever it is and you're sitting in your learning. You gather the information and then you leave. And this is really touching on what Rabbi Rudich was saying but but like how much of your life has actually changed from it? Like how much So gradually, you know, there's the way the human beings work is we go slowly. We slowly slowly change. The more you

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