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I'll tell you what I tell people. I'm
not so interesting. I just know a lot of
interesting people.
>> Rabbi Seltzer, welcome to the program.
>> Thank you so much for having me, Rabar.
>> Yes, Rabbi Seltzer, I have had the
privilege of knowing you for 15 years.
It seems like you've always been
publishing another book. I I don't know
how many books you're up to now, but uh
it seems like every time I open Mishbaha
magazine, aside from your article, I get
to see the books. And I wanted to talk
to you more about what's going on right
now in Eritrol.
We had two years of COVID and we had two
years of war and now finally the
airports have opened up. the missiles
have stopped and we're at a moment in
history where we really need to relearn
the lessons of CO and this war. What can
you teach us? What can you tell us from
your experience?
>> CO was an interesting thing. I I learned
that it's all about your own family. CO
taught me that lesson because until then
you think it's it's so important your
neighbors, your friends are so
important, your sh and they are
important. I don't want to take that
away. But what's the most important
thing is what happens inside your house.
And if a family had a good relationship
before COVID, co allowed them to
strengthen that relationship because
they were together with their kids a
lot. They were they were they were with
their wife and chabases were just them
without guests. And so for us it was a
it was a good period of time because it
gave us that ability to really come
together as a family and afterwards we
able to actually move from our own
neighborhood because we realize we can
move to another neighborhood and it
doesn't matter. It's not about the
neighbors or the friends. It's about us
and our house. And so we're able to do
that.
>> Co taught me and maybe you'll agree that
first of all, you don't have to go to
the bank. Okay, my bank suddenly they
don't even allow me to deposit cash
anymore. They're like, you know, you
want cash, go to the machine. And it
also gave it seems to me and maybe maybe
I'm wrong but it seems to me that Hashem
was kind of preparing the world for a
situation where we take go away from
Gashmus.
Everything that happens in the world a
person has to believe it's coming from
Hashem and it's a message to our
generation. So
moving on to the war. How would you
describe your experience with with the
war? war is the war is very much like co
is global and the war I think is there
to tell everybody outside of Israel it's
kadai for you to start thinking about
buying a place in Israel just just
because if anything we've learned from
history
we have a shelf life in other countries
it's kadai to think ahead I really feel
the war the war taught us that I think
the war is still teaching us that I
think everything changed I think it's
nothing. The world is not at all the way
it was before October 7th. I think
anti-semitism right now is only going to
increase in the years to come. I don't
think that we returned at all. It's
maybe it's it looks like it's calm. I do
not think it's calm. I think everything
changed. For me, the war changed
everything.
>> This war isn't over.
>> No, not at all. You know, we were seeing
in a suka two months ago and we were
getting missiles and how quickly we we
forget and everything goes back back to
normal.
>> You forgot. You I didn't forget. You
>> better sake. I Yeah. Yes. I have moments
when I forget. I have moments when I get
in my car and I have to pinch myself
that I'm actually, you know, it's it's
it's quite it's quite amazing.
>> Go to LinkedIn. So, just go to LinkedIn
and look at the stuff being posted there
and you'll remember. Go to LinkedIn.
LinkedIn is a business site and I have a
lot of people who are constantly getting
in invitations for people to want to
join my business network and I can tell
you that that is a place that used to
never be you would never be exposed to
anti-semitism was purely a business
network and today every other thing on
there is is Palestinian. It's it's it's
hate stuff. It's a scary scary
situation.
>> You mentioned LinkedIn. I I know that
you don't go on social media. you don't
have you don't have what's up
to me is living day by day it's getting
the every single day and I wanted to
know if maybe you could share some of
your life experience about stories that
uh we could only happen in
>> so it it goes back when I was when I was
in the mirror I was a younger man I was
I was learning with a ber in the mir
going back a long time ago I was about
22 let's say 23 three and
um at that time I was getting paid to
learn with this boy but I I wanted to
learn with someone my own age and I said
to myself if I'm if I'm learning in
yeshiva I might as well learn with
someone my age but I needed the money so
what do you do so I went to I had a
conversation with Hashem and I told him
you want me to learn you want us to
learn I'll make a deal with you you send
me the money I need and I'll learn with
someone my own age and Hashem said okay
and I went and did that. So I started
learning with this rous incidentally I'm
still learning with him now over 20
years later he lives in
>> it's not is it no
>> no no I only met him like about 10 11
years ago
>> but you go every day to the I see you
>> you were of that sh also right
>> that's correct to be one of the he's a
good friend of mine either way the
person I'm talking his name is Mhammed
he's the he's the founder of
No, I'm next to MDY. We gave MDY
property to build over there. Anyway,
he's the guy by the founder of the Shaw.
>> Wow.
>> So, I started learning with this guy and
I had I told Hashem, I have enough money
to get me through sukas. This is elma. I
have enough money to get to sukus. And
after that, I need more money. That was
what I told Hashem. And every day I'm
waiting for Hashem to send me money.
Every day I'm waiting for someone to
come over to me and give me a check. And
here's here's cash. I don't know. I'm
waiting for something to happen. I'm
sure is going to do it. I just didn't
know how.
My in-laws in her and every year my
wife's grandparents used to make a party
for the whole family, children,
grandchildren, great grandchildren. They
lived on brand in her and every year we
had a party over there. So, we're at the
party
and there's a knock on the door and Saba
goes to the door and he opens the door
and in walks his best friend. his best
friend, his name is Dr. Mosha Katz from
Lawrence.
And so they're they're best friends for
50 at that time, this is going back 25
years ago, they were best friends for 50
years at that point. How did they meet?
So 50 years earlier, my wife's
grandfather Irving Mazel, he was, you
know, he wasn't such a firm guy. He was
a American kid, but when his son was old
enough to go to yeshiva, he wanted him
to go to yeshiva.
So he went to one of the local yeshivas
in the five towns. He walks into the
office. He says, "My name is Irving Mel.
I want to sign up my kid to come to your
yeshiva."
So the guy by the desk says, "That's
very nice. Do you have enough money to
pay tuition?"
So Measel says, "I'm not a wealthy guy.
I work for the New York City housing
department, but I'm a contractor and if
anything breaks in the yeshiva, I will
be available to fix it. You probably
spend a lot of money fixing things. I'll
be your guy. Anything you need, call me.
Doesn't matter when. I will come and I
will fix it. And that's how I will pay
tuition.
So the guy says, "D, thank you very
much. Don't worry about us. We'll worry
about ourselves and uh come back in a
year. We'll get you a scholarship.
So Irving Misel is he used to go his
temper was like from zero to 100 in like
two seconds
and he's like he's like a New York City
housing department guy. You can imagine
he he loses it. He's like you call
yourself yeshiva. What kind of Jew are
you? Who's your mother? Who's your
father? He starts yelling at the guy
screaming at the guy. What kind of a Jew
are you? I want to send my kid to
yeshiva. You're turning me down. And he
starts screaming. He's leaving the
office. He's slamming doors. Meanwhile,
Mushkat is sitting in his office. He's
the president of the yeshiva. And he
hears some guy yelling at the top of his
lungs and he walks out of his office. He
follows the guy out of the yeshiva to
the parking lot and he sees he sees that
the guy is getting into a car and he
wants to know what's going on. So he
says to the guy, "Can you give me a ride
to Faraka?"
Serv Misel says, "Sure, get in my car."
So Mishkat waves goodbye to his own car.
He gets to Miselle's car and he drives
him. And on the way, Mashkat says to
him, "What's going on? What's wrong?
What happened? So says, "I want to send
my yeshiva and they're not willing to
take him. I offered I don't want Sadda.
I'm I'm I'm happy to pay. I'm a
contractor. I know how much it costs to
to to fix things. I'm willing to be on
call." But this guy says, "That's a very
good deal." He says, "I don't want
Saddak." He says, "Not Saddaka. I signed
the checks. It's a good deal."
He says, "Tomorrow I'll bring you the
papers. You'll have the papers in your
house."
So the next day brought in the papers
and how Mel went to Yeshiva. They became
best friends and they moved the Mel
family moved next to the cat's family
and every shabas they ate together. He
joined Moshkatul
and they wanted to make him vice
president. They wanted to make me mul
vice president but he wasn't shabas. So
he said mush you got to convince him. So
mush took him out. He says Irvvin you
got to become I want they want to make
you vice president. He say, "Yeah, you
just got to keep Shabas first." He
started becom Shabas. The whole life
changed. And now it's 50 years later and
there's a house full of from children,
grandchildren, great grandchildren, and
Irving Mel puts his arm around his
friend. He goes, "Mish, it's all you."
He said, "It's all yours. It's all
yours, Mish."
At the end of the night, Mish cat comes
over to me and he says to me,
"I love your books. I love your writing.
I was just starting.
I I I want to write a book about my
family. Nine out of 10 survived the war.
Nine out of 10 kids survived the war. I
want to write a book about it. Come to
my hotel the day after sukus and we'll
sit down and talk about it." So the day
after sukus,
the day after sukus, man, I drove to his
hotel. He was staying at King Solomon.
We had our first meeting and he gave me
the first check and after that every
month in the mail came a check for more
than I needed to to foro.
But it wasn't just that because that led
to another guy called me up not long
afterwards from London. He was in
Israel. He said, "I read M Catz's book
and I want to write a book with you." I
was a little boy in Budapest, six years
old during the war. We called that book
Child of War. And one led to another and
I'm still doing it now, 56 books later.
Hashem is still keeping his part of the
deal. And I'm still learning with the
same.
>> It's I would say it's minimum.
You were the star soloist. Uh, was that
that was the song, right?
>> I mean, I wasn't a soloist on that song,
but I was on that album. Yes,
>> you were on that album.
>> Um,
>> correct.
>> You know, when when I lived in Betar
when I um almost almost 30 years ago and
um I had a relative who would come
visit, he was a wealthy person, he would
come visit me and he asked me, "What
does everybody do in this neighborhood?"
So I said, "We all learn Torah." So he
said, "So where what's what's the deal?
Where are they getting money from?" So I
said, "Well, I don't know. Everybody
gets by. Somebody, you know, they they
the in-laws help. Some people have they
they do they sell I don't know. They
sell They they they do they do uh
clean them upet for other people. They
do different things." So he said to me,
"Aaron, they must be stealing. They must
be stealing from either the government
or cheating on their taxes. It's
impossible because
>> they
>> have no taxes.
>> No, but so it's like the the the kasha
that I think I never said this before,
but I I I I've been thinking about this
that the real kasha is the miracle
that's happening in Israel.
>> Says that the have no connection to
Shabas. They can't keep
>> it's just for Jewish people. And the
Gmorrah says that Isa there was a guy
named Iser who said when I before I
became a Jew I used to say there's no
way Jewish people keep Shabas. There's
no way you could pass a a wallet in the
street on Chabas and not pick him up.
Not pick it up. No way. Not possible.
Meaning he doesn't understand the
concept that what you would just see a
wallet and not pick it up. That's the
same thing this guy was saying to you.
If if if people are getting by, it must
be that they're silly. No, maybe not.
Maybe you just don't understand. Maybe
they're living.
But a B, you don't understand something.
Maybe you don't understand. Just like
didn't understand. You also don't
understand.
The the world the the world is just
basically proving yet again
how important
is in the greater scheme of things. The
Gian themselves do not understand why
they are fixated on the Jewish people.
They don't get it. It's like you don't
it doesn't we are the size of this
little this is us. Yeah. This is us our
country. Okay. We are nothing. We are
one teeny little bit of the world and
tiny amount of people. And yet every
newspaper all over the world are busy
talking about if we build a porch
in Jerusalem and we build a porch. It's
like the biggest news in the world. How
about if you focus on Scandinavia? You
know what? They did a new drill. They
have a new stall that cuts through
trees. Or in Denmark they caught a fish.
Leave us alone. Why are you busy with us
all the time? No, they can't. They don't
even know why. They're so busy with they
don't even understand why that is our
job. We were given a job to be a light
unto the nations and that was we're
doing our job. You know what I think it
was a lot of that happened and if they
don't like us that's okay. Better to be
feared than liked.
Absolutely. Absolutely. You know when uh
we say in we say
that there's a growth there's a growth
of the
and I I saw interesting last night I saw
the
he's going to bring the crown back that
it means that he's going to build the
mdash that mel is going to build the
base mdash and I saw in
oftel goes into he goes into great depth
explaining why this was a good idea in
the second B mikdash where only 42,340
people returned like you may have Ezra
and 113 or 14 of them were married to
Gim and those were the people who built
the second ba migdash and we're at this
point right now where half of kisol have
have returned and there's a lot of
conversation on social media about are
we With the rise of Mamani, are we at
this point where we should start
thinking about Eritisol?
>> I do believe that uh I think New York
has another 20 years, New York and most
of America. I think Texas and Florida
has maybe 40 years,
>> but yeah. Yeah, it's definitely a sign
because Mandani is just one person. He's
just one. You have to understand all of
the people who if you look at what's
going on at college campuses, the more
sophisticated, the more lush of a
college, the crazier
the sick ideology they teach their
students. All of these students are
going to grow up and they're going to go
into politics, a lot of them, and
they're going to be the next leaders in
America. So right now, even if you still
have people who support Israel, that is
very possibly going to change in the
next 20 years. And again, we're not
dependent on politicians. We're not
dependent. But you have to understand
the country just because it was
hospitable until now does not mean it
will stay hospitable. If you look at
history, history repeats itself, right?
So we should be open. We should eyes
should be open to situations. Should
realize right now I can get a good price
for my house. Maybe could die to think
about that.
>> Why why would you want to sell your
house when you're over the barrel and
under stress?
Just look at what's going on. You know,
if you don't think you're living in a
bubble and you think, "Oh, life is
great." Take the bus,
take the train, educate yourself. You'll
realize very quickly what's really going
on around you. Go take a train to
Manhattan, walk around a little bit,
take a bus, take a city bus in Manhatt
in New York. You want to get a feeling
of what's really going on? You're living
in your bubble. It's sc it's a very
scary situation right now.
>> Okay. Um I I want I wanted to just just
tease this topic a little more because I
think that um the there were two there
was a recent interview that was done and
people a lot of people saw this
interview and there was between two two
raon one I don't know was somebody init
who's into aliyah and another person
who's above in California and they were
talking about whether or not
>> what are you who's the rabbi who's the
person who's into ali
Uh,
>> he's not a RV. He's not a He's not a R.
>> Not a R.
>> He's not a R.
>> Good guy, but not a R.
>> He's not a R. Yeah, I I think I was
clear. I said it. He's not a R. It was
between two and there was a R in
California
>> and they brought up two points, three
points actually. The first point was
whether or not we follow Ramosa
Feinstein. Raisha Feinstein has a famous
truva. I I I actually spent six hours
yesterday in the draisha in Giten
going through a lot of the shittas of
Mosha. It's it's a very complex
um about the of
inus and
the millis Esther. I mean the puzzle is
that the Rambam doesn't mention mitzvah
of Israel. This was the first topic was
do we follow like the Ramban who
interestingly enough moved to Eritis
even though he was being persecuted but
he did move here or the Rambam who lived
in Egypt and probably couldn't but he
didn't move to Eritis he really he
didn't end up doing it who and the
Rambam doesn't say now there are a lot
of opinions so that's one so what that's
one argument that's given but I think
the bigger argument because both both
sides of that argument are agreeing that
we should be here it's just a question
of if it's a responsibility on every
person to do um just like we were at
sitsus that's that's the example but the
second issue was the children's
education
um and I think ramp she has come a huge
way and like I was speaking to somebody
yesterday that you know there's probably
10,000 kids who are olim in yeshiva and
you can't say they're all going off the
d so I wanted to know if you could maybe
share what what your insights were about
If
>> what's the focus the question
>> what is the issue of kids going off the
d from olim is that a real thing or is
that an imagined phenomena and should
people
>> you just went you you just left your
whole introduction and went into a
different question right
>> I'm not following yeah
>> meaning you you you the whole
introduction was about the mitzvah of
mitzvah versus
>> no mitzvah no there were three things
that we that they mentioned in the
interview they mentioned mitzvah
And the second thing was whether or not
the kids will go off the d. And the
third thing was whether or not um it's
uh third thing was why the raanim didn't
tell anybody to do it. Will any rabbi
get up and say move to? So the first you
want
>> so the first issue of the mus between
the the the migillis Esther's
interpretation of the Rambam and the
Ramban I think is a mute point because
uh everybody agrees it's a mitzvah and
it's just like situs and we all like to
do mitzvah dasis. I think we all say we
all wear situs and this
>> we feel it's the right thing to do.
>> Yes. Yes.
>> We are we are pro mitzvah.
>> Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. Your question is
your question is kids at risk. That's
your question.
>> My question is is kids at risk a real
reason? I even say further that
the came to him and said why? Because he
didn't want to have he saw he saw that
he's going to have and said to him you
got to do what what tells you to do.
Hashem tells you to do this.
Don't mix in.
So if t it's the right thing to do. So
we can't make about our kids.
>> I'm not I'm not going to is one of the
reasons you're allowed to live in
America. Okay, that is the so a person
could say that. But
>> that's to leave according to the migill.
>> It's the same idea. It's the same idea.
>> Raosha says it's not the same idea. But
it makes
question is if the Ram actually held
that that it's to live in says don't say
it's to leave say it's also to leave.
Okay. But yeah
>> either way either be that as it may
today has come a long way and there are
many many schools and many places for
kids to learn. That said, if a family is
settled and the kids are all doing well,
I would hesitate to tell them to uproot
themselves and move to a different
country because it's a different culture
and it's a different way of thinking and
it's a different system. Now if
everybody comes together from America
meaning when people say what do you want
there's no the answer is yeah if you all
came here and you made then there would
be American if lakewood came to then we
would have
and there's plenty of room for everybody
so it's not really an answer but at the
point where they're not honestly I can't
I when people ask me I can't tell them
you have to come here if you're doing
well meaning it's a different we have to
we to differentiate between a young
couple who are starting out and a family
with 10 kids or eight kids who are
living and and they're settled and
they're doing well. There I hesitate to
tell people just uproot children from a
system when they're doing well. That's
something which I I would not tell
people to do. Um but on the other hand
if you're starting out why not start out
in why not today there are many
different it's very different than it
used to be and and there's I think the
children have a very very good there's a
very good percentage of kids who are
doing very well and in America you know
probably is very close to each other in
Lakewood and today in the beginning
sheish it was different it was a big mix
of people coming from all over the world
it was very different today there's
neighborhoods. You could live with the
same type of people like you. Find the
neighborhood similar to you. There's no
reason it shouldn't work out. But that's
again when you're starting the journey.
I hesitate to say to people whose
children are already in the system and
it's working well. You know something
called sometimes. Why isn't it a
mitzvah? Imagine if the Rambam and the
Ramban both pased everybody was said and
it was
Everybody has to live in. Right.
>> Right.
>> And then people didn't come. Right. So
it really has to be I I I heard from I
heard from a from a Rebi of a Rebi of
mine who heard it from his Rebi. So I
don't want I don't want to say who I
don't know remember who it's from
exactly, but he said that why does Msiah
have to be a person? Why can't it maybe
I think it's from the moral. Why does it
have to be a person? Why can't I'm sure
you would you could explain, but why
can't it just be a movement? Why can't
it just be awa? It can't be. It's just
an awakening of Hashem removing the from
our heart and making everybody um just
want to be.
>> So he said that it has to be a person
because it has to come from us. Meaning
that the only way that what Hashem
really wants he already took us out of
Mitsim and he already came we already
came after the midbar. We came into we
were at Sadik and we lived with Yeshua.
Then the Ramban then we he really wanted
like the Ramban says on the mitzvah of
that there's a mitzvah to go and seek
out the BA mdash and that was the by in
the end of
when the came and the reason
went and counted because he wanted there
was a mafa that happened and people died
there was a plague there was covid from
that the sin of those people was that
they weren't seeking out Hashem. Um,
maybe tell us about I I know you're a
star member of Rabbi Stfansky. We
mentioned it, Rabbi Stfansky Shir, the
MDY. Maybe tell us about what MDY is and
how you got involved and how you helped
start it
>> from moved to to Mic from Chicago about
10 years ago. He joined my show. He sat
on my bench and I recognized him from
his interview he did in Ammy magazine
lunch break with Assanal Gans was also a
good friend of his and uh we became
friends and every time he yeah he told
me I remember right when I met him he
told me he has a dream he very much
admires Abdu
and he wants to also do something to
have a global effect on
he always had he always thought big and
he he started doing many things and then
a synopsis of the of the week and every
time he would do something he would ask
me to to come support him and I always
try to give him support why not he's
trying to do good things and
today the sh has between 30 and 40,000
people every day between Hebrew and
English all around the world
and many many in Israel alone there's 29
satellite locations America about also
about 25 between 20 and 30 satellite
locations and uh it's an amazing thing
that we're about to have a shabaton in a
few weeks in America expecting few
thousand people it sold out right away
and uh what's amazing the thing that to
me I is the most amazing thing about it
and this comes up a lot that many many
many people when they write their emails
to the shir to rebel they say that they
haven't picked up a safer since yeshiva
they haven't learned in 20 years. They
haven't learned the 30 years. They're
trauma from Mhish. They haven't learned
Garin and now they're learning every day
finishing
and they're back to is part of their
lives again. So for me just for that
it's worthwhile that people haven't
learned in so long and they're learning
now and they're loving tora and it's
part of their life
just for that alone
that it exists in the world.
It's not the da, it's the yomi, right?
It's
>> that's what he always says. It's not
about the daff, it's about the yi.
>> And and that's doing the same doing
doing having a schedule and doing that
every day.
>> He he his his thing that he stresses is
is consistency. That's the thing he
stresses. And and then he he says once a
person takes consistency so then he's
able to to to bring in many other things
in his life. like he's he always pushes
he pushes not talking during kaj which
in the beginning I was like I don't like
not talking during kaj because it's like
it's implies that that you know during
the rest of ding but I but he was like
at least take something you know
sometimes we have arguments differentic
points and um I get a lot of times
people from different places thank me
for you know presenting the counterpoint
and that's my job and but he he's doing
amazing amazing things he's really
helping people to change. He's he's he's
he's showing people that no matter you
look I think he himself talking about
something that that he taught everybody.
He didn't tell you change. He's not
telling a person look at me. I'm a
person I sit and learn my whole life and
and and you should be like me. No. No.
He's saying look at me. I'm a
businessman. I lived in Chicago. I drove
my Beamer. I drove my Lexus. I was a I
was a party guy. I was a fun guy. I was
doing I was having a great time hand out
shallots and I also gave it but his
focus he was a businessman at the end of
the day was a businessman and this
businessman who has a very nice
portfolio of real estate very successful
guy but inside he wanted to be
different he wanted to to shift the
focus and so when he tells you that you
could change it's coming from a of a
place that I he's not telling you oh do
something that he didn't do. He's doing
it. He doesn't work now. He he sits and
learns from morning till night. He's
basically always preparing for it's like
you he's always busy with now. He's
living the he has a big. So it's the if
you want to look at him as an example of
somebody who put his money where his
mouth is literally
and in the most literal way is is
changing his life each and every day.
And he's a person who was also not a cav
person. He was always all over the
place. He ADHD and now he's committed
and every day he's teaching. He doesn't
miss a day.
>> He still gets up on the table and
smashes the grapes and brings the brings
the
>> whatever it takes. Whatever it takes,
you know, whatever it takes to bring
people to learn Torah, that's the goal.
No matter what it is, you have to get up
at a table to stand by grapes. Stop by
graves. Sit up sit on a lion. He would
go skydiving. He would do everything. He
wants people to learn to that's his
that's his dream and is doing it. So I
think I don't have to go to stories over
here. He's the big story. We're going to
do a bookm about MDY about
>> I want to do a book about you. I'm sure
I'm I'm sure the hundth person, right?
>> I'll tell you what I tell people. I'm
not so interesting. I just know a lot of
interesting people.
>> Uhhuh. Okay. Great. So um thank you very
much. All right. You're an interesting
guy. I I know you for a long time.
>> You're very interesting. Well, I I'll
tell you something personal that six
months ago, my child and Ellie
Stfansky's child both are in the same
yeshiva and we had a subunim and I'm
sitting there learning with my son and
Ellie Stfansky sits down over there and
I see he's learning with his son and I
look at him I know he's very busy person
and he's sitting there learning basm
with his son and at that moment I said
and this is not going to sound gyic it's
going to sound very gyic but I said
Ellie Stfansky did it. I want to open a
YouTube channel. Right? And at that
moment I said he gave me inspiration. I
said that and that's why I started doing
this. That's was I was I've been writing
detra and giving out a duff on the
parish every week in Hebrew four pages
and I've been doing that for 10 years.
And I I I'm involved with a radio
station in in America that I've been
doing. I've been playing your music as
well. And um and at the same time
someone just that day asked me why don't
you start going on video. So I really
deep down uh I never said this to
anybody and I never I never talked about
this. But he really
>> you know I think it's an insult to say
if he he did it I could do it. But but I
really mean that. I really mean it that
you know he he he was just I I saw what
he' done
>> and Barashem um I'm gl I'm glad that I
got that inspiration from him. Listen,
keep on keep on uh doing what you're
doing helping clients. I'll introduce
the clients als to things to to to think
about to to to not just look at the life
on a surface level to try to to try to
ask yourself questions. What does Hashem
really want from me? I think every
person has to ask that question. That's
asked himself
asked himself that question. It wasn't
easy for any person any person who tries
to do things in life. People ask them
who says you should do this who whom who
who died and appointed you you know
speaker for whoever is doing big things
gets gets pushed back and and it's okay
it's part of it
trying to say that to throw spokes in
your wheels and and it's all good but
they're teaching they're teaching us
ask yourself what does Hashem want me to
do what can I do for
just because I'm doing this doesn't mean
I shouldn't be doing something else.
Just because I'm in America doesn't mean
necessarily I shouldn't be an answer.
Ask yourself tough questions. Don't just
live I think what you're saying here on
this show is don't just live your life
without asking questions. Ask yourself
what am I supposed to be doing? What's
my tki? What am I where am I supposed to
be? I think you're at I think that's
what you're that's what I'm getting out
of this show and that's a very good
thing. And uh you know all these people
are doing their thing. Each one learned
from someone else got from
I don't know where who was Mashia on him
but somebody was mash on him. It's like
a pyramid scheme but without any
downside.
Everybody's helping someone else to to
say you know I can also do big things in
the world. What is my task? What does
Hashem want me to do? And I think that's
a question everyone should be asking
themselves. And then and then we should
be working towards fulfilling our tap.
That's really what Hashem wants us to
do. And if you ask yourself, what's your
tough? I'll end with this. What's your
tough? You ask, how do I know? I wasn't
born with a little little slip attached
to my pinky toe telling me what my task
is. So how do I know? So I think we can
answer. The answer is you have to ask
yourself, what inspires me? What excites
me? Usually your tough lies in the
things you're naturally drawn to in
life. That's your place. That's your muk
of expertise. That's the place you can
use
to help Israel.
>> Rabbi Seltzer, thank you for joining us
on this Hidabut podcast. Thank you very
much.
>> Thank you for having me. Luck with
everything.
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