What the Louvre Jewel Heist Teaches Us About Serving God

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

You probably heard the big news about the jewel heist in Paris at the Louvre, the famous art museum. Some thieves came in and stole some priceless jewels. How they're going to fence those jewels, nobody knows because they're pretty famous jewels. They were famous before the news uh became front page news. But even even without that, I don't know how they thought they were going to be able to sell them. At any rate, the jewels are missing. They don't know where they are. They caught most of the thieves. They have partial confessions at least as of the recording of this video. Interesting stuff. But what does it matter to us? Like what can we learn from this? So in the spirit of theidic concept that we can learn something from everything, there's a concept that anything that you know about was divinely orchestrated. God is in that much control that if you know about something then there's a reason why you know about it and that reason always has to be somehow to help you to serve your maker better. So how in the world could it help me to serve my maker better to uh hear about this heist? So in that spirit I want to share with you a teaching a specific teaching of Rabzushia. Zushia was one of the students of the Magged. The Magged was the successor of the Balshamp. The Balsha was the first leader of the movement and the Magged had 120 disciples all of whom were great, holy, pious, righteous rabbis and many of whom became leaders of different dynasties. One of those 120 students was Rebusha. Zusha actually famously did not become the leader of his ownidic dynasty. His famous brother Ali Melik Miligensk became a leader of dynasty. Rab Zusha uh kept more of a low profile.

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1. 0:00You probably heard the big news about the jewel heist in Paris at the Louvre, the…
2. 1:01then there's a reason why you know about it and that reason always has to be…
3. 2:35of [snorts] ish this teaching and actually I'll read it to you in uh in Hebrew…
4. 3:41proclivities, leanings, let's say. And you could use that or express that particular trait in different…
5. 5:13traits that are negative can be rechanled and actually should be rechanled to be used in…
6. 6:17one of the students of the MG, he taught that you can learn how to serve…
7. 7:51Okay, obviously a thief places places himself in danger because he's doing risky stuff, but you…
8. 8:53a different context. That's talking about things that are annoying or troublesome. Just, you know, move…
9. 10:25or they wouldn't take the risk of uh of uh doing this heist. But you could…
10. 11:26"How do you get to Carnegie Hall?" The guy says, "Practice, practice." Okay, so if at…

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