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Jewish Money Secrets Live Q&A

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Rabbi Moshe Chaim Katz

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A tremendous pleasure to be together, to be learning together. We're speaking essentially about the topic of money. Money is a topic that's important to speak about because in this world, it's something that we use. And no person could say you don't need money. Well, then how are you going to buy a house? How are you going Thank you very much. How you going to pay for items? Money is something that is a reality that Hashem made in the world. And what we want to do is explain how to experience money in a healthy way. Money is something using a kabad analogy and a kabad perspective is what's called kipus noa. Kipus noa. It means a type of shell. Now let's explain what that means. There's essentially three categories of life. Three categories of life. And through this we're going to be going and continuing. This entire Shir is based on the teachings of Reban of Brelov. We're going to be beginning with these topics now and continuing in our topic from Torah 61 in the Maran. Just so we see the super structure. But the basic idea is that the great Tanya teaches us based in the zora that there's three categories of all of life. There's a catery called kadusha, holiness. Then there's a catery called tuma, something which is totally contaminated. And then there's something in the middle which is called kipus noa. Kipus noa means it's something that

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  1. 0:00A tremendous pleasure to be together, to be learning together. We're speaking essentially about the topic
  2. 5:56>> It could be used for a mitzvah. >> Be used for a mitzvah. In fact,
  3. 11:50happened. Was the tree of knowledge a good tree or a bad tree? Was it a
  4. 17:45percentage of the world do you think is using money in a positive, productive, healthy way?
  5. 23:36and that that movement pushes much more energy into the system than otherwise would have been
  6. 29:18But the same function is happening with my money in my bank account but as a
  7. 35:10source of blessing, the source of financial success is that knowing that it all comes from
  8. 40:59mana I'm going right to you I'm not going anywhere else I'm going to you I'm
  9. 47:04consciousness. It's the day that you don't even work that you acknowledge that it's all coming
  10. 53:05So Chase here with a NASA symbol is asking my thoughts on the Talmud. Wonderful question.

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