Struggles of a President | Rabbi Joey Haber

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

I want to share with you something. In the summer, my brother, Rabbi David, is very close to R’ Binyamin HaTzaddik. R’ Binyamin HaTzaddik is the Mashgiach of the Mir Yeshiva, R’ Binyamin Finkel. And he came to Deal, New Jersey, for the summer, and my brother took him around, and asked him a question, What do you think about Donald Trump? And R’ Binyamin’s answer was, I don't have a thought necessarily about him, but I'm very inspired from him. My brother says: Why are you inspired? He says: I'm inspired because the energy and the strength that he has at this age to go through all that he went through to be able to become president is unbelievable. And the truth is, when you sit back and you think about it, the amount of struggle that it took, the amount of people that were against him over the last four years, is unreal. How he pushed through all of it, I have no idea. But that's what life is like. You want to become something, you need to be willing to struggle and willing to battle. And sometimes you walk around and you say: One second, there are challenges on the device in my pocket, there's challenges on the screen in my house, the computer in my house,

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1. 0:06I want to share with you something. In the summer, my brother, Rabbi David, is very…
2. 0:37to go through all that he went through to be able to become president is unbelievable.…
3. 1:08there’s a challenge by images on the street, there's challenges in the office I go to,…
4. 1:38Says the Kedushat Levi, Why is Shalshelet on top of the word וימאן, when he abstained,…
5. 2:08He says: I'm going to be one of those three. How can I sin right now?…
6. 2:38Even if it's your future son and your future grandson, you'd be mortified if they saw…
7. 3:09So don't be scared from the struggle. Maybe even the president of the United States is…

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