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From Asia to Aliyah… and Back - Rabbi Dov Ber Cohen

7.5K views · Jan 21, 2016

Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky

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i've been asked to come and share my story but that's not why i'm here they they wanted me to do that but i'm not gonna do that i'm gonna do it a little bit but if you leave here tonight and you've just heard a good story and it's a bit interesting then we've all wasted our time because what i really want to do is give you practical tools and advice and wisdom that i've learned along my journey that you can now implement in the rest of your life so you can live a happy positive inspiring powerful deep meaningful sweet beautiful amazing life so that's what we're gonna do and we did it tonight so that you can take this into the new year so really if you're the same person next year on this day as you are this year that's the tragedy you've got to be consciously growing trying to work on yourself someone came to me the other day and he'd been in his job for 40 years and he said my job is very very stressful so i said i was always stressful and he said yeah from the beginning my job was very stressful

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  1. 0:29i've been asked to come and share my story but that's not why i'm here they
  2. 5:51have you seen karate kid the original michael myself so uh lots of martial arts films
  3. 11:10fully appreciate every single thing you have in your life and focus on that then that's
  4. 17:04i actually only had nine kilograms in my bag a couple of t-shirts a book that
  5. 22:14if you have the right mindset if you relate to it in the right way the
  6. 28:10that's where i ate the snake we had burmese python have you ever seen a burmese
  7. 33:33talking so that i can say what i want to say or give them some advice
  8. 38:50it wasn't like oh the camera will remember it they were present they did another test
  9. 44:44it doesn't exist so it needs a strong physical base and only if you have a
  10. 50:03maybe let's finish on this what is the point of life what's the purpose you've got

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