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God Decides Your Success

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Rabbi Yaron Reuven

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Because if wants to make you successful, he can make you successful selling dog food. Everything that a person does, he has to do things based on what normaly is. Many you don't need to work three jobs or four jobs just because you want to be rich. One job is more than enough. You don't need to work overtime and three times the time in order to make it. You can work normal schedule. 9 to5 is enough. 9 to6 meaning you should spend the the time that you have in this world working just enough to like a normal person. There's no need for you to kill yourself just to make a living. And there's no need for you to chase your tail and find different careers every other day just to think that maybe this one is better than the last one. Because if wants to make you successful, he can make you successful selling dog food. He can make you successful being an accountant. He can make you successful being a cartoon character. There's all types of things that a can do to make you successful. And don't laugh about dog food. actually had a client when I was in the business world that was my biggest client and he started the first dog food company in in America and he became extremely wealthy as a result of dog food. Dog food is a business that Hashem decided to make this guy Bob very wealthy. But guess what? There's a bunch of other people that went into the dog food business and they went broke. Why he decided to make rich decide to make broke. So the key is to know that you don't need to exert yourself and lose your family, your life, your sanity just for the sake of money. So the Rambam says work eight hours, learn Torah 8 hours and do your personal needs in 8 hours. I wish we could do that. But if the key is to know that a person needs to work a certain amount of time, learn to a certain amount of time, obviously personal needs a certain amount of time. But anyone that wants to get closer to Hashem, if they're starting right now, start with as much as you can. 15 minutes, a half hour, an hour, as much as you can. But if you're already religious for a long time, don't think that you're going to survive being connected to Hashem with less than two hours a day of learning Torah. It's just not enough. But if you're just starting, start with whatever you can. What? Grab whatever you can. It's like grabbing for life. You know, it's like you're drowning and you have to get one of these things that they throw at you to survive. But if you're already religious for a while, no less than two hours a day of learning Tawa. Why? It's simply the minimum requirement for for you to stay connected. But as far as is concerned, again, normal effort and make sure the rest of your time is spent wisely. And last but not least, if you want to add baka, then make sure that you're giving Hashem a reason to give you more baka. What are you doing with the money? If all the money that you're making is simply going to get you a fancier watch or a fancier car because the four-door wasn't good, you want the twodoor Bentley and you're not really giving Hashem a reason to give you More ba.