The Laws of Being a Mentch Part II Modesty Rabbi Leiby Burnham 6 23 16

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today our topic is modesty so for starters I want to talk to you about a player in the NBA his name was Kenny Anderson pretty decent player and he filed for bankruptcy in October of 2005 after having had he made an NBA career in his NBA career he makes roughly sixteen million dollars sixty million dollars million dollars sixty million dollars and yet he's filing for bankruptcy not long after he retires and in the court proceedings they were discussing like where did all that money go right so here's some of the things that he spent his money on you bought eight cards right and none of them were were Chevy Malibus right here and up monthly expensive his own spending per month with roughly forty one thousand dollars with roughly forty one thousand dollars he also paid his mother's mortgage and his own five bedroom house in Beverly Hills he also has ten thousand dollars a month in what he called hanging out money okay I would like to hang out with him okay and especially because he also regularly handed out to friends and relatives three grand five grand now that sounds kind of grand but when we start to realize here is there something start to realize here is there something wrong will be here evidently too much of a good thing is not a good thing you know there's this famous uh there's this joke that you know there's a demon sitting there and get him down in the netherworld you know smoking it fires and there's a knock on the door and he opens the door and there is standing like you know the the heavenly angel like those they're really guys is a guy in the fully white clothing with a halo on the head that guy was always big nice things in

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3. 10:31reading about all their accomplishments they're sitting there getting rid of the face they're uncomfortable sometimes…
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7. 32:52money so from there apart call a commode and of course people want sometimes you can…
8. 38:49their eyes were opened and they knew they were naked and they were ashamed it seems…
9. 44:06beautiful to look at it should have had you know cross skulls going cross bones all…
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