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

One time, one time, one time, one time. I recently spent Shabas in Detroit with a very special family, the Togo family. There's a boy over there, the Nakam Togo, who listens a lot to my stories. I actually tested him on the stories. And his grandfather is Gary Togo, and he told me a fascinating story. He said when he had a real estate business, before he could make his business public, give a chance make his business public, give a chance for everyone to invest in it, he had to find investors to get it started. So he had 3 weeks that he was traveling around the country, a different city every day where he was going to meet with investors, with hedge funds who wanted to invest in his business. He went with his son, Yonyi, who made his schedule. Every morning they would dive in. They would have a driver then that would take him to his meeting starts the day early. One day he's in a specific city and Shakis is at 6:00. specific city and Shakis is at 6:00. It's on a Monday. His meeting was called for 7:30 and he tells the guy he'll be there probably around 7:20. I mean because how long is Shakra going to take already? Now this meeting was perhaps the most important from the whole 3 weeks of meeting. It was a very big hedge fund, very important meeting. And obviously he was the main person of the meeting, Gary Togo. He gets to Shul at 6:00 and there's two people in Shul. He says, "Okay, oh my goodness, is it going to be one of those that it's going to take a long time till everybody comes in

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1. 0:00One time, one time, one time, one time. I recently spent Shabas in Detroit with a…
2. 0:30make his business public, give a chance for everyone to invest in it, he had to…
3. 1:03specific city and Shakis is at 6:00. It's on a Monday. His meeting was called for…
4. 1:34take a long time till everybody comes in and slowly people are trickling in?" But he's…
5. 2:05His meeting was supposed to start already. His driver picks him up. He hands him some…
6. 2:35CEO of the hedge fund, is not there yet. He breathes a sigh of relief and…
7. 3:08says, "The deal is on." And that was a very big deal for them. Boom. The…
8. 3:40big job and it was during shock and my mind is going back and forth. There's…
9. 4:13me, Hashem is in charge of the shuttle bus. He's in charge of the check-in. He's…
10. 4:44charge of the meeting. I mean, as long as Shakas takes, the guy I'm meeting is…

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