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Chelek 25, Vayeitzei 01- Rabbi Ari Shishler

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Sicha Women Shiur - Project Likkutei Sichos

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If you want an amazing example of how a worker should be dedicated to his responsibilities, you only have to look at Jacob Aino. But in the analysis of what we learn from Jacob about the obligation that a worker has to his employer, you're going to see some distinction between the way the Rambam and the way the alterba phrase it at the end of the of hing and employing people. The Rambam rules as follows. In the same way as the employer is warned not to short change or undercut the salary of his employee, not to delay salaries. Likewise, the employee is required not to steal time that he owes to his employer to take off a little bit of time here, a little bit of time there, check his social media, whatever it is. We don't want a situation where he's going to essentially void the day in an going to essentially void the day in an dishonest way. But the employee has to be very scrupulous about the time that he spends on his job. Likewise, person also has to work with all of their abilities, all of their energy. How do we learn it? Because the great said he told I served, I worked for your father with all of my might because he did so because he did so he got the reward for it even in this world. Not only some spiritual reward where do we see it? As a says, that he literally burst forth with success. He had this incredible abundance. Now, the quotes the same, but as we'll see, there are slight differences between the way the alterb says it and the way that the that said it. Let's see the

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  1. 0:01If you want an amazing example of how a worker should be dedicated to his responsibilities,
  2. 5:19presented in different orders is because of the purpose of each of these two books. The
  3. 11:07So is framing it clearly. Your responsibility as a worker is work with all of your
  4. 16:55he's quoting a why doesn't he use the typical expression for quoting and the way he
  5. 22:05where you you you you have to expose yourself to the terrible heat in the day
  6. 27:55here was privileged to get the the reward also. But the emphasis here and we're going
  7. 33:39sorry employee has to his employer there two possible ways you could look at that is
  8. 38:59you're an employee, you're effectively in the jurisdiction of the balabas. You got to give him
  9. 44:43not the other difference is when the refers to the fact that we learned this from
  10. 50:34served not just going through the motions of his job but with everything he had which

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