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22 — Ep 22: IMPROPER EFFORT (Part 1)
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[Music]
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welcome to the B alav series episode
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22 the basy now tells us that based on
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all the understanding that we've given
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till now we see the tremendous mistake
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of people that think that the only way
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they can make their livelihood is
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through illegal measures he says it's
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totally illogical if we believe that H
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is only something we need to do to cover
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the miracle and H is something that God
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tells us to do but God sending it to us
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how could it be that God would say the
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only way you're going to make your money
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is through doing something illegal
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that's impossible if God's giving it to
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you he can't possibly need you to do
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something illegal and that's why the
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gamar says that the sin of weights and
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measures is such a severe sin which we
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going to see that a little bit later
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because a person is basically saying
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that I need to take my livelihood into
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my own hands and that the only way God
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can make me pay my bills is by lying and
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cheating and conniving which is limiting
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God's abilities doesn't make any sense
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it's similar says he's talking about
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Shabbat it doesn't make makes sense that
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the only way you're going to make money
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is by working on Shabbat it's been pred
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decided how much money you're going to
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make and working on Shabbat is not going
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to change that and it's impossible to
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say that's the only way you're going to
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make your money he gives
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the of a barrel in the old days they had
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barrels had spigots you put a spigot in
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it's like you have on the side of the
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hot word or on Shabbat a spigot and that
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would let the wine out now if you put
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six spigots in or seven spigots in it's
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not going to cause there to be any more
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wine than there was before the spigots
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don't create the wine the wine is
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pre-existing that's the same with our
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livelihood our livelihood has been
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predetermined the spigots are just the
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intermediaries to make it come out and
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an illegal spigot is not going to do
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anything more than a legal spigot I like
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to bring down a little story that I uh
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read when I was a boy in seventh grade I
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did a book report uh why I chose this
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personality I don't remember anymore
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maybe the teacher gave us options I
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don't know but his name was lucky
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luchano he was a mobster and his name
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was lucky because he was once in a
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motorcade and they tried to kill him and
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he got away he got the name lucky
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luchano and lucky was not a great man he
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killed many people but due to the help
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that he gave to the war effort his the
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mafia ran the docks during World War II
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the American government let him out of
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jail sent him to Sicily to spend the
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rest of his life and towards the end of
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his life life there was a uh a writer
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that went to write an autobiography on
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him and he asked him what's your life's
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takeaway and he says my life's takeaway
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is I ran organized crime I ran a
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Syndicate I ran a business and I put a
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lot of effort into it and I realized now
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at the end of my life I could have put
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the same amount of effort into making a
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legal dollar that I put into making an
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illegal dollar I could have I put so
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much effort I could have just opened a
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Fortune 500 company and that's the same
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true with our parasa you're going to
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make the same amount of money whether
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you do it with a legal or illegal way
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why do the illegal way and get punished
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as well have a wonderful
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day