The Secret to Becoming TRULY Rich (with Rabbi Manis Friedman)| KOSHER MONEY Episode 20

mind blown from this next episode what what was it like sitting down with Rabbi Manis Friedman Rabbi Manus Friedman if you don't know him he's youtube's most popular rabbi he has over 187 000 subscribers some of his videos have millions of views it was a phenomenal sit down we discussed what is it about money that makes the world go round what advice would he give to someone who's extremely wealthy what advice would he give to someone who has no money where do you go after you die i mean wow we're getting like uh spiritual over

here it was phenomenal it's crazy how spiritual money is but i was blown away without exaggeration i could see this as being one of our most viewed videos and i'm excited to see what the audience thinks can't wait to listen take a look being a jew awesome managing personal finances not so awesome welcome to kosher money welcome Rabbi Manis Friedman this is a real treat for us it's a little bit uh wild to see you in in the flesh because i've consumed so many of your videos and you're usually behind the screen so the fact

that you walked in here with the glowing white beard it feels like uh almost uh out of uh out of real life but welcome it's good to have you so if you type into google the world revolves around the first result that comes up is money yep that's right there the world revolves around money i don't know if necessarily it's true but what is it about money that seemingly makes the world go round if you want to get to the heart of it what is the need for money only the human being has this crazy

lifestyle the animal goes outside looks around to find something to eat no but we have to go through schooling training apprenticeship and finally we got to get a job and then make some money and then you can sit down to a meal and and not starve like why is that it seems cruel and unusual punishment so we have to think a little bit beyond and past just the money because it really is a mystery why is it set up this way you know we have you would think more noble things to do so our food

should be available more easily so that we can be free to do noble things and yet we have to spend most of our lives just preparing for the job that will make us the money that will buy us the food that will keep us from starving and that's it's crazy so the reason money makes the world go round is because that's our survival but the question is why why such a crazy system and as long as we're talking about it what is this craziness we work six days a week so we can rest on one

day that's top heavy and i was like we should work one day so we can rest in six there's these movements across the world now where fourth day yeah yeah because it should be that way ideally so here's the precautionary um warning you can get a lot of comfort from money your life is easier more comfortable broader have a bigger vision but it is not meant to produce happiness and that's where the big mistake is yes money will give you comfort it will not give you happiness because it won't give you satisfaction feels good to

be able to make money you come in with a big wad you know you feel great it's not happiness so if you depend on the money for happiness you're headed for a depression and if not you then your kids say so what so what so we have money so we're rich you know it doesn't make for a happiness life but the reason we have to do all this and the reason we have such a complicated path to a sandwich is because it's the only way that God can get us to interact with each other to

meet people we otherwise not meet to get us to come out of our caves and feel mutually dependent on each other in other words it creates a more human existence if you had your food outside you know just climb a tree and eat we wouldn't be human the way we're meant to be so instead of thinking of how much money am i making how much money who are you meeting who are you dealing with where is this taking you what are you exposed to and what good can come from that the people you're dealing with

your buyers your sellers your customers your employer is there something that you're supposed to learn or give or receive or some kind of human interaction that makes the world a better place if Adam and Eve hadn't eaten the apple would this idea of money had existed and if not how else would we have interacted so if you read if you read it superficially it sounds like the curse the curse for eating from the tree of knowledge was that by the sweat of your brow you're going to make bread that means go to work in simple

language get a job so it sounds like a curse and it can be a curse but really it's a hidden blessing it's like saying you can't just be yourself anymore now you have to interact with other people you'll give you'll take you'll receive you'll help each other in some way but no more hermit kind of life in the garden of eden just picking things off a tree there's a verse in Mishlei (The Book of Proverbs) "Tzedakah Tatzil Mimaves" that charity will save the donor or can save the donor's life what is it about charity that

is so powerful so much so that a dinner a donor can be saved from potential harm or death with a little stretch of the imagination giving charity means giving away your life i mean imagine you have only one dollar left and you give it away well what are you giving away your life your survival so you in in return you deserve to receive life so if you give life you get life if it's not always that dramatic whereas your last dollar but every dollar could be your last dollar and what do you invest in making

this dollar pretty much your whole life you got to wake up you got to go you got to work you got to train you got to look it's your whole life although we should make a distinction there's a difference between existing and living huge difference existence means you take up space literally that's the scientific definition how does this exist it takes up space what does it mean to take up space can't put another microphone in the same spot so for human beings to exist means i take up space which means you can't sit in my

seat it's mine i was here first we can't share the same space if you take it to an extreme Cain and Abel Kayin (Cain) and Hevel (Abel) could not share the same space they had the whole world and they couldn't share it they must have had huge egos everything was huge back then so existence means to take up space which means intolerant of anything invading your space in addition to that in order to exist you have to have certain resources you need food you need drink you need shelter you need warmth you need cooling you

need all sorts of things just to survive just to exist so if you have everything you need for your existence what have you accomplished nothing no one is invading your space and tomorrow you can do it all over again you'll eat you'll drink so really it's kind of depressing and that's what we call existential angst it it hurts to exist and that's why we're always asking what is the purpose why am i here what's your problem you don't want to be here i want to be here but i can't figure out why like what for

so that i can not let you into my house because it's my house and then give me food give me drink give me this give me that it's embarrassing and a little depressing if i take my existence more seriously i worry about it i stay up at night worrying about my space and my i'm going to get seriously depressed but then there's also life life means what effect does your existence make on the world around you your being here your being your existence has an effect that's what justifies your existing so life means what are

you contributing so the fundamental difference is existence is demanding needy life is giving needed before we get to making a living having money getting rich not getting rich one thing has to be clear we can't function as needy creatures we have to see ourselves as needed creatures changes everything that alone like the depression is gone who who needs us is it and and i've heard talks from you in the past and i would like to get into that a little bit but who needs us is it other humans that need us does God need us

what what how do you look at needed yes both some would say or push back and and say God doesn't need us god has everything well let's put it this way God's plan needs us the plan can't work without us god wants this world to become a godly place well the only way that can happen is if we do it because if he does it then it's not this world then then it's heaven he wants earth to become godly meaning by its own limited f you know fallible clumsy way to somehow get to be godly

so yeah it depends it depends on us completely you touched on the idea of making a lot of money some people struggle to make ends meet let's talk about those two extremes if there are those listening that have come into a lot of money whether through inheritance or through their hard work or not hard work they're sitting on a pile of cash what advice would you give to people in the in that state yeah there are people who win the lottery and their life is ruined [Music] it's it's a serious common event um being wealthy

or being poor has only one significant consequence you're gonna meet different people if you're rich you meet a certain kind of people if you're poor you meet a different kind of people so your your wealth or your poverty takes you where you can do the most good in god's plan so if you're poor it's because you need to deal with people that that live in that circle in that universe if you're rich it's only because you need to be affecting people who are in in that stratosphere so always look beyond the dollar you know like

follow the money [Music] no follow where the money takes you notice what's going on in your life and you know you went to make money but you end up accomplishing something much more significant you know somebody you're dealing with they don't look so happy today and you ask them what's the matter and they've got a serious problem and you suggest something you help them or you just encourage them and put them in a better frame of mind you could have saved the life just there does that mean to say that those who are poor and

the people that meet that this is their lot in life and their for them to strive to get out of that is not something that they should be focusing on meaning accept their lot we talk about azure usher has because someone who's happy is someone who's um content or who's rich someone who is content with their lot is that a life sentence almost is that saying basically hey don't strive for something more because real richness is you have it it's there already or no someone can actually do their efforts and and their hashtag list to

strive for something higher you always strive for higher otherwise you'll never be rich so that statement from the sages who is rich the one who is content with his lot never going to happen if you're content you don't get rich you sit home among the rich people who is handling it and who is not handling it in other words not who is rich who knows how to be rich so it's not bait and switch you want to know who's rich somebody who doesn't care if he's rich no no don't do that to me should have

said who's happy a person who doesn't care okay but don't tell me he's rich and then tell me he's happy with being poor [Music] not honest so we're talking about a person who is rich seriously rich but there are those whose wealth make their life more livable and there are those whose wealth make their life miserable so what it's saying is who is wealthy in other words who is a healthy wealthy person who's handling their wealth well the one who is content with their with their life not with their money if you're content with your

money you're not going to make any more that is not the nature of wealthy people so people a person gets rich they say all of a sudden you win the lottery or you inherit a lot of money and all of a sudden your wife is not good enough for you and your children are annoying and your car is too old-fashioned and your house is too small and even even your congregation and your community is not for you your whole life has to be exchanged why because you have money that money is killing you it's destroying

you so people who inherit a lot of money they they need a little counseling some cautionary notes because it doesn't it doesn't the suddenness of it you know they don't they don't have time to digest it and to work it out and they don't grow into it which is also they didn't work for it that that that is deadly undeserved unearned it's a gift but it can be a poison which is why an honest day's work is what brings happiness not the money that comes from it so if you make more money than you feel

you deserve you're going to be thrilled but you're going to be miserable it doesn't give the contentment that life is supposed to give so the great people in the past the people we always looked up to as role models and so on any money that came to them undeserved they gave it away immediately this is not really mine because i didn't earn it so if they find money give it away they want to live off what they earned and deserved we had a guest here uh David Bashevkin who spoke about "Gvir (wealth) Culture" where a

lot of people in orthodox jewish circles and it's not even just an orthodox jewry look up to the wealthy and their opinions matter when it comes to the community you're rich they think you really know right is is that is that it's a problem in the sense that we respect them for their wealth but then we also suddenly value their opinion if they were to lose a lot of their wealth i don't know if we would value their opinion um how do we how do we tackle that Gvir culture i think if we look more

closely people are not jealous of their money they're jealous of their confidence because rich people are confident come across and they're jealous of their happiness if i could be as happy without the money i would be perfectly okay with that if i could have the confidence of a rich person without being rich i wouldn't mind so it's not the money that we're jealous of and that we're admiring you admire somebody who speaks with confidence even even if they shouldn't because they don't know what they're talking about but you know the same hap same thing happens

when you publish a book if you're an author then you are an expert on every subject that has nothing to do with your book but oh he wrote a book well he knows everything which is so again it's it's not the book it's not the money it's the confidence we can all use a little more confidence well said let's go to the opposite side we were talking about an abundance of wealth for those not making ends meet and watching this video it's it's a real struggle right they they're receiving letters in the mail from credit

card companies they have debt what what do you tell someone like that who knocks on your door not looking for a check but for advice that is dangerous the reason people are not making a living you know can be so many different things and if it if you if you focus on the wrong thing you're just going to make the person more miserable why can't you get a job let's not let's not go there because you know who knows uh woody allen in the beginning of his career had a a record an actual album of

comedy and he has this routine about how he was in a car accident and he had a near-death experience he was dying and his life flashed before his eyes and he saw his father zeke coming in from the fields with the cows and his sister annabelle was bringing the eggs in from the chicken coop and wait wait i'm a jewish boy from brooklyn the wrong life is flashing before my eyes and i got two minutes to live the wrong life cannot flash before your eyes it does not happen so the poor man who looks at

the rich man and says isn't that supposed to be my life what am i doing here i'm supposed to be no your life is never wrong for you because if it's your life well first of all it's the only one you have so don't knock it but if it's your life live it it's yours it's not like my life took a wrong turn and all of a sudden i'm not where i'm supposed to be you're exactly where you're supposed to be so it's not like it's not like the rich man took your life away stepped

into your shoes and pushed you out no he's got his life you got yours again look past the dollars what does your life consist of which people do you interact with what issues do you handle they're different this is where you belong if you were rich god wouldn't need you so it's not going to happen that way but you can go from one to the other rich people become poor unfortunately and poor people become rich that means you fulfilled your function and purpose in this field now you're being moved where you change careers you change

professions you meet different people so when god decides to move you he'll move you but never jealous of someone else's life why the cost of jewish living and we ran through the numbers is extremely high in comparison to the cost of an american non-jewish family where if you live in the tri-state area in order to just make it without any lavish vacations and things of that nature you need to be in the top three to five percent of income earners in america assuming you're paying full tuition and um you're keeping kosher and the cost of

living is admittedly a lot higher how do how do we look at that and and for those that and we always say it's a beautiful living but it's it can feel strenuous to some how should people look at that specifically orthodox jews the biggest challenge the most noble challenge is the idea that he who gave life will also give meals if he gives you life he's going to give you what to eat relax you're not starving you're not dying you're not going anywhere so the stress is a little self-inflicted it's really not in our control

at all and when you get right down to it being smart does not guarantee wealth i mean look at who's real look at who's wealthy they didn't get there by being smart and look at all the people who are poor who are brilliant and they tried it all they did exactly the same thing the rich guy did and they did it better and nothing came from it and the other guy didn't know what he was doing and everything turns up roses you know so it's obviously out of our control on Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year)

every year god decides how much money you're going to make that year it's written in stone there's nothing you can do to change it so worrying is certainly not going to help staying up all night putting in extra hours it's not going to help it's not going to make a difference it's it's deceiving i mean you you work on saturday you come home with a couple of thousand dollars of profit what do you mean i didn't i made more money by working on shabbos (Shabbat/the Sabbath) that's not called making money if next day you get

sued for ten thousand dollars and there goes all your money down the drain right so making money doesn't mean it's in the cash register the question is where does it go from the cash register to doctors bill's god forbid to lawsuits to losses so in the end by the end of the year you will have exactly the amount of money that was decreed on rosh hashanah so there are those that say if that's the case where it's all decreed on the jewish new year why put in the hashtag listen effort during the year very good

question basically what we're saying is making a living is a miracle it's a it's it's an act of god it's divine intervention but we're not supposed to rely on miracles we have to live a earthy life and allow the miracles but we can't live on miracles if you're not feeling well you have to go to a doctor to say god you know god will help me you know the story with the boat and the car and the share the story let's say some guy was caught in a flood and a truck came by picking up

people and come we'll save you he says oh no i'm a believer god will save me so the truck leaves and the water rises and a boat comes by a canoe he said come on i'll save you don't worry about me god will say now he's up on the roof of his house and uh a helicopter comes by ready to pick him up and he says don't worry about it anyway he drowns so he comes to heaven and he says to god hey i trusted you i believed in you why didn't you help me because

i didn't help you i sent you a truck i sent you a boat i sent you in other words god wants nature to function as nature not to be ignored but miracles come into nature because nature alone can't exist so if you want to be richer there is something you have to do open a bigger store you know you can't have a little shop and say i want to make millions you got to create a vessel that can hold or contain the blessing you're looking for so the guy says i'll open a little shop in

the corner i'll come in once a week a couple of hours and whatever god wants will happen anyway yeah well you're not allowing it to happen because you're not you know like on Purim (Jewish holiday/festival) if you extend your hand for charity there's a mitzvah (commandment) to give call up guy doesn't stick his hand out you expect people to force money in into your pocket so at the very least you got to put your hand out show that you're ready to receive so by opening a bigger store you're saying i'm ready to take on bigger

bigger responsibility bigger bigger income but if i don't want that i just want to be just sit and wait for your uncle to die and inherit his money so that's not the way god wants it to be the joke with the boat reminds me of the fellow who's driving around looking for a parking spot and he says god please i need a parking spot and he's circling 10 minutes 15 minutes 20 after 30 minutes he finds a parking space says god no i found one forget it i'm good um so this idea that someone has

to stretch out their hand or create a bigger shop or a larger vessel at what point is his hand stretched out enough at what point is his shop large enough that he's created a vessel and and the crux of the question is how much effort is sufficient does one need to be working late into the night in order to show god that he's making as much effort as he possibly could thereby sacrificing other pieces in his life you know the famous saying don't work harder work smarter work smarter putting in more time day and night

you know no that that's not making a bigger vessel that's just making a mess out of yourself you open the larger store there is natural opportunity for the blessing step the bigger store reaches its maximum right it's and it's not enough so open a bigger store but you don't spend more hours trying to force more blessings into the store you have it has reached its capacity in the small store you were making a 100 000 a year now you're making 500 000 a year but that's all you're going to make in this store now you've

got to open a chain of stores if you want to be a millionaire but you can't just keep working on that store day and night day and night so you just keep enlarging the vessel when you're ready so that there can be a bigger blessing would it be wrong for someone to tell god that if god was to make me more financially successful i'll be able to give more charity and do more good things with this money as he's striving to create a larger vessel or that would be the wrong way to look at it

it's not a good idea to make deals with god because he'll always outsmart you don't make deals but you should in your intention have in mind that the more i have the more i share it's not a deal it's not you know i'm not making conditions with god if you make me wealthy i'll give charity no i'm going to give whatever i have i'm going to give 10 15 whatever because because that's what you're supposed to do it's not it's not a not signing a contract or anything right so don't make pledges we were told

before you're rich don't make pledges i'm assuming given your role as a rabbi in a community that couples and families do come to you with their financial related questions what would you say is the common theme of those questions where they seek advice or maybe have some sort of friction in their life hardly anybody asks me for financial advice should they be no thank you very much but usually it's just the tip of the iceberg some friction between them that is blamed on the money but it's never the money one thing we know for sure

if a guy is trying to make a living he has to he has to first make sure that his wife is happy because god is giving him money not only for himself but for his wife and for his family well if your family is not with you and your wife is not with you then you're not gonna get like a guy says i'm single i just barely make enough to live on how am i going to get married so what you want god to give you enough money for two when you're just you become two

and god will give you money for two become ten god will give you money for ten but what do you want money for ten before you even get married make any sense you've hit on something there where there has been um discussion from families given the cost of say private yeshiva school tuition that people are nervous to have more kids because that will mean larger expenses you're saying that's a backwards way of thinking that is that is defeatist that's intimidation it's giving up on life and it's giving up on life in favor of a better

existence never do that wow we have lists and lists of why i told the fans that the few fans that we have less than a dozen about Rav Manus Friedman and they're very familiar i think you now have over 187 000 subscribers on youtube not that you count um what are what are some of the common themes of the more popular videos that you've released that you've seen resonate with your audience interestingly the one the one talk that gets eight million hits wow is the one about life after death everybody i don't know why what

are we all so afraid of dying what's going on here and it's been over years not just corona and what you know everybody wants to know about that we'll link to it in our show notes to ensure that people get to see it but what is it about life after death is it uh what happens when you die where where do you go what do you what do you do and you can't take your money with you either [Music] do you see that as people get older they become wiser as it relates to what's important

in life we spoke about leaving a legacy and and being needed as people get older do they realize the importance of that or the way they are hopefully not always unfortunately but i tell you this corona [Music] it it has brought a lot of wisdom not only to old people to all people and this is really i think relevant to this conversation do we want to go back to business as usual does anybody want to go back to work no i hope not because the work environment has been so toxic so inhumane we should never

go back to that the greed the competition the stress everybody's on anti-anti-stress anti-anxiety pills this is not a way to live this is crazy don't want to go back to that so talk to anybody who runs a big company they have a hundred employees just to pick a round number every one of those employees comes in at nine stays till five it's a waste of time ask the head of that company if all of these people came in at nine and left at three would you make any less money no what about if they left

at 12 would you make any less money probably not so what are you keeping them there for what you're doing is you're giving them too many hours for the amount of work they're going to do so they get kind of sloppy you know what's a rush i got more hours i got more time i'll do it soon i'll do it later i'll take a break i'll go if you had three hours of focused work you would make as much money as you make now so what they should do is put in the three hours take

a lunch break and then get back together to figure out ways of making the community better you've made your money now let's think about everybody else you're capable people obviously you're employed you're making you're creative you're intelligent so why not spend a couple of hours trying to do something for your neighborhood for your community for your congregation or for the world if you're that big people would come to work with a whole different attitude it wouldn't be this greedy grabbing rat race who needs that it's a phenomenal idea we had spoke about realistic ways on

how we can lower tuition costs and one of the ideas was a large accounting firm that has the resources to help a school manage their finances or their back end where it wouldn't be much skin off of their back but if they allocated x amount of hours employees to that cause they can help a communal organization and uh it's within the theme of tapping into this are are you familiar with any companies that are doing something like that or this one company that i spoke to is doing it in what industry real estate real estate

and has it impacted their business in a negative way no and the employees appreciate and they see the value in giving back yeah so going to work is not a grind it's not a burden it's not suddenly it's a noble thing to do and it does bring happiness which money can't i just heard this cute i don't know how much time do we have a few more minutes there's this little uh scene where this guy says to god i can't do this i can't i work i work i run i do i have no life

i have no life i'm down to 20 bucks i have no life give me a life so god says really no life give me the 20 bucks i'll give you a life the guy says okay well well if i give you the 20 bucks i won't have any money for gas for the car god says oh you have a car give me the twenty dollars on the car and i'll give you a life i said oh wait if i don't have a car how am i gonna get to work so god said oh you have

a job so give me the job and the car and the twenty dollars i'll give you a life it's like that joke about bring me bring the cat into the house and bring the goat into the house and bring anyway so he says all right but if i give you my job how am i going to pay the mortgage so god said oh you have a house give me the house the job the car the 20 bucks i'll give you he said but if i give you the house where's my family gonna live he's oh

you have a family give me the family give me the house give me the job give me the car under 20 bucks i'll give you a life he says okay god says good now here's 20 bucks here's a car here's a job here's a house and here's a family you got a life we sometimes think like you're chasing your life and you're running in the wrong direction you have a life for which you're willing to go to work to support don't forget them and then complain you have no life this is the challenge of today

women are going to work not only because they need another check but because women are tired of being a one parent family because men are not part of the family they got careers so for a long time women put up with it thinking yeah that's you know men supporting their families beautiful it turns out men aren't supporting their families their career comes first in fact the family is like an annoyance their wife calls the middle of the day what do you want i'm busy have no time for family i'm so the wives realized they're alone

and eventually they said look you're not going to be part of the family neither am i i don't want to be a one-parent family so i'm going to work too the problem is they both forgot that they have a life and they're so focused on existing that it's really depressing we have now on the living lchaim network our youtube channel tens of thousands of subscribers that are not even jewish that appreciate the the wisdom that our guests have been sharing what and and it's been eye-opening to non-jews who may not have had exposure to the

world of judaism in trinidad and south africa and australia maybe even in minnesota as well if you had a message for our non-jewish community um not necessarily on behalf of the jewish people but something for them to know about judaism that they have not been exposed to what what would that be whether it be a message or something to know about orthodox jews and and judaism and torah now we're always very proud and keep reminding the world we gave you monotheism that was 4 000 years ago what have we done lately yeah that was great

that was really really great there's hardly ever you know there's hardly any idolatry going on you know monotheism is universally accepted principle there's one god that's it okay you know we can debate you know christianity and these muslims that have a little difference of opinion on that but but the principle is there right there's one god what what more can we share being a light to the nations what what are we offering ten commandments they got it the bible they got it now what i think the message which everyone needs to hear this one god

that we believe in who created the whole world he has a big investment in his creation huge investment because there was only him at the beginning and what was wrong with that why wasn't he perfectly content there's just him no complaints no no demands no clutching nobody's accusing him of being cruel why did he mess it up there must be a really strong driving interest to make all this worthwhile for him and we've been ignoring that we're so focused on what we need him to do for us we forget that his investment is the big

one i mean if this world disappears would i care it's not my problem it's his world he cares so again we've put ourselves in such a needy position in our relationship with god that it has become a one-way relationship which is no relationship at all when we serve god we're literally giving him something that he can get only from us otherwise it's not a service you want god to help you to save you to protect you to bless you to and that's called serving him it's so self-serving it's not it's not nice it's like a

bad marriage so what we need to do is realize that we are here on a mission to fulfill his plan what he needs from this world from us so we are needed not needy everything we do is part of his plan why do i have to go to work i don't know that's how he set it up you want to call it a curse whatever but i didn't do this why do i even need to eat three times a day i want to quit i can't why because it was never my idea in the first

place god needs me to consume food it was his design so instead of feeling so needy and constantly making demands of god give me help me teach me show me love me it's narcissistic we have to become a little more noble than that a little bit you wake up in the morning what can i do for god's world what does god need from me because i am needed i really have not many needs because i didn't ask for this so why do i need to eat i didn't ask to be born it's an interesting thing

that's happening now it's like the cutting edge of people are no longer threatened by death the way they used to be like teenagers you say don't don't mess with drugs dangerous they say yeah so like what well it might kill you yeah what's your point in the olden days that enough said you got to get up and plow the field back breaking work and you got to milk the cow 4 o'clock in the morning or you're going to die oh that's it right need what was what is the expression need as the mother of all

invention we were driven by need well something happened in the last couple of years and people are saying you know what i don't care i can't live my entire life so that i don't die it doesn't make sense so you better tell me something more meaningful than oh you're gonna die where does that apathy come from it's not apathy i i think we're getting closer to the truth because that has been the reality you must live why because otherwise you'll die that is not a logical argument you have to live so that you live and

not die no so when we ask what is the purpose of life we're not depressed we haven't given up on life we're just saying there's got to be more to this than just not dying so all of a sudden there's a there's a certain wisdom that is dawning on the world i am not needy because i don't need any of this and you can't threaten me with death because why must i be alive why i like it i'm fine i'm not suicidal but why now we need to come up with some answers and that's why

people are turning to judaism judaism is the only source for information that makes this world significant to god because most religions no this world is just a pain you know get through it quickly with as few scars as possible and go to a better world uh that doesn't help make life here but any better judaism is a living godliness not a heavenly one it doesn't dismiss this world in favor of paradise and that's why jews don't really want to go to pa and we don't go to heaven oh can't you just wait you can't wait

to get to heaven oh i can wait i can wait as long as i have no interest in going to heaven what's there in heaven when you die which you shouldn't but when you do in heaven you are pampered you're retired you did your job you're a good boy here enjoy we don't want we don't want to be retired we want to be productive we want to be active we want to be contributing to god's plan so the message of judaism go back to your question the message of judaism is don't go to heaven don't

even think about heaven bring god here don't go there and all the souls that are in heaven they're miserable because they can't wait to come back here's where all the action is and there is no better place is there a book that you have not written that you recommend to people to read people are always looking to hear what inspires and interests our guests is there a book whether related to finance or not that you recommend to people a good book on life um towards a meaningful life oh it's called towards a meaningful life okay

we'll put that in the show notes people who do have follow-up questions for you i'm assuming there will be many is there a good way to reach out to you a website an email address if they google your name i'm sure they'll be able to find you the best way is to go to it's good to know that org it's good to know that org do you receive quite a bit of uh communication it's good to know yes it's good to know it's good to know.org wonderful well thank you so much for joining us Rav

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