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08 — Ep 08: HOW CAN ONE RELY ON STRIVING FOR MORE WITHOUT KNOWING IF IT IS FOR HIS BENEFIT?
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[Music]
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welcome to episode 8 of our Basi series
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and we're now in unit8 of the book the
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BET says how can we rely on our hislut
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on our efforts if we don't even know
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what's good for
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us we don't know what's good for us the
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pelites brings a story of the that the B
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describes that they asked the pious man
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what was the greatest day in your life
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and he says that before we answer that
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question I'm going to put that we're not
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going to answer that question but he
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gives an important introduction he says
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if I were to answer you physically what
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the greatest day in my life
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was was the greatest day in my
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life when I won the lottery Maybe not
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maybe I lost all my
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friends was the greatest day in my life
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the day I got married Maybe not maybe it
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end ended in a bitter divorce what's the
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greatest Day of My Life by a Vida Miller
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used to say if you ask John F Kennedy
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what's the greatest day of your life oh
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I became president of the United States
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he put a bullet through his head he
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asked Charles Lindberg what was the
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greatest day in your life anybody knows
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history Charles Lindberg was the first
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one to fly across the Atlantic in one
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flight
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wonderful but he became a celebrity and
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his child was kidnapped and killed that
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wasn't great
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so there's so many things that we're
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excited about and it's the worst thing
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that happened to us you read stories
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about the kid that just got his new
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scooter and scooted out the driveway
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Shalom and who knows what happened
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there's all kind of stories of people
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that are excited by whatever they're
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excited by and it ends up in disaster so
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we're working and trying and putting our
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efforts into something we don't know if
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it's good for us people like I remember
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you know somebody that was uh was
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certain they were mentioned and the
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other side was being difficult they
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didn't want to say yes and I happen to
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know something about the other side I
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knew some private information and I was
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thinking to myself they don't realize
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how lucky they are hashem's saving them
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from something we're doing all kind of
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we don't know what's good for us we live
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in a world where we're totally blind to
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good and bad what's a good investment
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what's a bad investment what's a good
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house what's a bad house what's a good
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school since you want to go to you wish
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your kid gets into a certain class and
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who knows who he's sitting next to and
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who knows what influence that's friend
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is going to be on him there we we can't
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fathom what good and bad is and
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therefore the BET says how could you get
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so excited the konish writes the same
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thing in a letter he says I'm usually
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not so excited about his because it's
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usually
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unclear what is the right thing to do
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what exactly is the right thing to do so
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when we do we have to say
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I'm doing my I'm following the rules I'm
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paying the tax but I'm not going to get
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excited about
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my I I don't even know what is good for
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me that's the
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ultimate he's like a baby that's being
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weaned from his mother that doesn't know
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what's good for him what's not good for
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him whatever my mother serves me so
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especially my how can I count on it when
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I don't know where it's bringing me have
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a wonderful day