July 4th Special - Benjamin Franklin and the 13 Middos of Rav Yisroel Salantar

this Tower class is brought to you by torahanytime.com okay welcome everyone Brooklyn to tonight's share July 4th special Indiana it was either para Duma or Benjamin Franklin those were the two uh two choices um we have uh welcome back to those who are returning uh for the first time after all these weeks a very interesting subject tonight and that is um the subject of self-improvement in yados which is a very interesting topic we know that one of the founders of the founder the Muslim movement was Rob Israel solanter you know so Bistro cilantro was the review of the altar of kelm the rebirovico petterberg the Robbie of ravnathly Amsterdam and uh most of the yeshivas in America style are offshoots of rubiso cilantro because Ruby straw was uh was the rebbe of the rebia the outer of slobotka now robistrall in the road a series of letters actually we have very little in writing from solanter most of his writing was collected by his talmud ravitzel petterberg in a safer called Ori Israel now are you still consists of a number of Parts you have shariar nasiva Israel now I don't think you'll hear Too Many people say that the are you soil is their favorite safer but for me personally it's one of my favorites because they are Chari or naseeboisar and Ruby straw wrote a number of letters the letters are very difficult to read but we still discusses the following issue of Israel says let a person not say and I paraphrase God created me the way he created me you know I remember I was once somewhere and somebody said to me rabbi can't change people you can only work within the way they already think so it's a difference right but Ruby Soul says it's not true let a person not say that you can't a person might think I can't change my nature you know God created me with certain bad Tendencies he created me with certain bad midoys and I can't be I cannot root it cesra bisraal it is not true at all because the abilities and the of a human being are benek visha that means you are able to conquer them just like we see with animals you know a person you could you could capture a wild animal you could capture um a whale you could capture a walrus you could capture a beer and you could actually train them you know if you ever go to a bear show they could have Bears doing uh domesticated activities you know the rambam talks about how they train cats right to be waiters so if the if a human being has the ability to capture and train an animal certainly a person has the ability to so to speak capture the human um a person could capture the animal urge within him and domesticate it in other words if you could train a wild bear and you could train a lot a wild out lion then why can't you train a wild person and therefore robustrial says it's a mistake to think that a person cannot change his nature you know often we think okay I was born arrogant I was born angry I'm about cuss you know I get angry when somebody does something against my uh will the resource says it's not true a person has the capacity to change his nature says cilantro and if you want proof of this look in the book look in the books now what does it says most people never heard of the safer it's not one of the classic muscles Farm in other words in a Yeshiva that they just learned let's say they ain't learning but in the Musso yeshivas there's going to be one or two of these sarums sort of tucked away in the corner invoking it has been on Netflix as we're going to see is that different kind of safer than any of the muscles Farm if you look on the title page it says it's a wondrous to cure oneself from the illness of bad midoys bed and to become proficient to be able to cure oneself and cure others written by RAV Menachem or rev Mendel and these two swarm are going to be very telling amazingly when this book was published for the very first time in this book was published with the encouragement of reviews cilantro now for business solantis encouraging the publication of the safer you know this must be a very very important safer regby stroll after all was the godaladar and the Poise so that's one interesting thing what exactly is this how is it different from all our other uh snarim and what exactly is the importance of this particular safer now had a son his son's name wasstein right he's the author of The tarotomima yeah he's also the nephew of who he's the nephew of the Native and he wrote a very famous and controversial autobiography he wrote about an autobiography about himself somebody once told me you know to read a biography is interesting the most interesting thing is an autobiography why autobiographies are much more interested in the biography because if somebody had the need to write a book about themselves I mean that it takes some you know guts to write a book about yourself it must be really interesting you know if somebody felt that compelled to write a book about themselves autobiographies are much better than biographies anyway the the macarbara has a very very interesting and controversial autobiography if you ever if you ever want to see controversial stuff look in the safe and macarbara it's so a few thousand pages long it's a few volumes long and he writes about uh again he's the son of the um he's very into changing your size and answering questions by saying that there's a gear so a textual error and he talks about the Muslim movement and he said solanter would expect from his Tami then the Tami didn't walk around with a little notebook and in the notebook would be a list of the various Midas and you would have to mark yourself how you did in a certain Mida that day in other words there were 13 Midas and you would have to rate yourself how is my Ms today you know did everything I say true or was it like quasi-true or not true at all how was my cast today did I blow it did I get annoyed how was my and you have to rate yourself daily when I was in Yeshiva so we had a rebbe that we had a we we met maybe once or twice a week and we had to carry around the little notebook and you had to mark yourself how did I dive in today three times a day I remember for a long time maybe a year or two we had to rate ourselves every day and that and this was the technique of Ruby Soul cilantro reviso cilantro would test his talmudim how they fared in various middays and Ruby straw basically presented what he considered 13 Midas the 13 primary character traits to work on and these are known as the yurgemomidos of Ravis number one let's go through them and we're going to see something quite interesting the first meet of robiso cilante was Ms what is Ms not to say a word from your mouth that you're not without full sincerity in other words it doesn't just mean don't lie it means you should not be whatever you say you need to mean it with all your being number two is rizos is are those mine I need those bags yeah yeah those are my those are my notes okay I couldn't have given to a better guy so um so the second one is reason says don't waste even a moment do what you gotta do that's Jesus in other words don't let time idle away but capitalize on every moment you have number three harizos the moment you decide that you should do something immediately do it go do it immediately with sheda with diligence over regression with feeling you know I like to say in America we do everything half-hearted but when you need to do something do it with every fiber of your be of your being you know we're very used to monastery yeah you're not your it's a bailing you need to bend your knees like this not uh yeah you bend your knees like this you have to bell until every vertebrae in your back is protruding the gamar says if someone doesn't do that after 120 your back turns into a snake now you're in the show anyway you might as well do it right so why don't we do it right because we're American Americans do things half-heartedly how do you do oyster Shalom this is no not you no no no in other words they say like this in Europe in America when it snows it doesn't even snow anymore in the winter and when it snows it snows four inches five inches that's because in America nobody does everything with a full brain in Europe when it snows it snows three feet deep when it rains is you know when it when it's hot it's 150 degrees in America everything is homogenized you know so what we saw would say the media is do whatever you set out to do with diligence and with feeling covered cover it is be careful to honor every person even someone who you don't agree with what I mean it's a stereo to Ms it doesn't mean you could tell him by the way what you did to me I hate you but you honor him you respect him in other words you don't insult him but you tell him the truth that's what it says by the Joseph says okay the robusto continues what's they have peace of mind it doesn't matter what's going on in your life you could be in utter turmoil you could be your world is swirling you don't know what's going to be but you have to have a certain Tranquility certain come and do everything with Manuka nachas what's nachas to speak calmly the words of the wise they're heard when they're spoken calmly and that's how one should speak cleanliness cleanliness is to be clean pure in your body and in your clothing remember we had Arabian eighth grade he got his shirt a little dirty and he had to go home now you could have gotten away he could have you know put in the put the jacket on top but it's a medium that when a person is dirty then nothing they do is as proper it affects your whole being then you have savlonos savlonos is to tolerate to tolerate every circumstance every difficulty in life say there order do all your actions in an order with a regimen don't be haphazard oh this came up so I'll do that oh that came up so I'll do this you know have a schedule have a order in the way that you do things Anova what does humility recognize your own deficiencies and divert your attention from the deficiencies of others that's righteousnesses from your own kimots stinginess and everything yeah I know a lot of people like that stinginess is don't spend the penny that you don't need to spend think about the fun the purpose of your words before you say them if what you're bound to say does not have a purpose then scratch it and you throw a wood constantly trying to beautify and and shine these 13 medus and he would expect this from his talmudum he would ask us tell me you know how is this meter today how is that me do today and this was with Israel's approach and Ruby straw would say you know how do you know if somebody has a good nephesh amida Tova clings to a nephesh taiva so if you see somebody that has that's a semen under Meda okay so what does this have to do with anything what this has to do is there's a countries called the conscious mind I'll tell you the truth I looked everywhere I don't want to bother anyone yesterday so I called every store do you have the countries nobody had it nobody heard of it they did research ah you could get it in Israel you could get it here so I need it today and I even checked out but then I yasi walk holder to me I you have extras on you okay that's good to know on you right now currently presently yeah right now where are you come over [Music] come over well Uber it doesn't take long okay you have the conscious um no but you'll see conscious Vine is basically um the history of the safe maybe that's what it has in the back I'm not sure and there was a lot of controversy that began to swirl about the safer khazanafish what was so controversial about it well first of all this was written by Ravi rocham rabies and in the last zman meaning in in recent history there have been a lot of challenges against the safer and against the author of The safer and the main accusation is that the safe which by the way is available from feldheim is translated is just a Hebrew translation from one of the Gentile Scholars but then his first name is binyamin and his second name is Franklin is just a Hebrew translation of one of Benjamin Franklin's ethical works so this big monster safer that in slovakka and Amaya Shiva they're very into it's a it's like a George Washington uh ethical book there's a translation from Benjamin Franklin and they translated into Hebrew just like many scholars have translated aristano Socrates and look there's nothing wrong tell us and one of the one of the Contemporary writers writes you know what's the problem imagine if a gentile comes into a dark room with a flashlight you're gonna say oh if I turn off the flashlight uh yeah it's not a Yiddish light the light works use the light what what's an afghamino whose light it is so somebody writes a book and it can help you improve your character if yesterday you were an angry arrogant bad dude and now by reading this book you're going to have better me dice so go for it what's wrong there's no problem if a guy is madly can air mishtami right so the book and they said it's good so claw Israel said that's the challenge that this book comes from none other than Benjamin Franklin Now by the way Benjamin Franklin was no Jew Benjamin Franklin was born in 1706 and he passed away in 1790 he's one of the founding fathers and the reason I spoke about it is I want to talk about something regarding American history and was covered you know hagam and well yeah Benjamin Franklin's on the hundred dollar bill you have one on you um we're gonna get to it that's what the sure is about now Franklin was a leading writer printer political philosopher politician Freemason you know what Freemasons are on every dollar Freemason was a ethical Society he was a postmaster scientist inventor ambassador of the United States to France he spent a lot of time in London he was one of the most influential Americans in the in the history of this country and he signed and crafted the Declaration of Independence and he he was a great inventor he's a great ethicist he was a Maman he did not go he was not a major churchgoer he did not invoke the Ozil and he wrote a book of Essex and he's the one who invented as we're about to see the 13 me dice he invented it not only did he invent it yep we're going to get to that not only did he invent it he invented the method to work on Midas presented by the hezmann nephes with the lantern this is the accusation and the question is is it true and if it's true is it a problem is there anything wrong in other words if in fact December is based on Benjamin Franklin does that detract from the safer do we say okay maybe we're not going to throw it in the garbage but at the end of the day we have enough Jewish books we may miss you know what's wrong with Michelle and all the other Classics why do we need to go to a Hebrew translation of Benjamin Franklin's great work now whether you kiss it or not so okay that's one of Camino or if somebody makes a Ned there and he says I'm marrying a woman a Manas that Benjamin Franklin wrote the book so if he wrote the book it's a good tradition if he didn't write the book it's not a good condition that's another but so um okay so that's the question and a whole countries was written on this subject who is responsible for the safe was it a plagiarized version of Benjamin Franklin's work and if so is there any does that detract from the safer when we saw cilantro lived also in the 18th century in the late in the am in the 18th century more to the the end of the 18th century he lived after yeah he lived after Benjamin Franklin absolutely Benjamin Franklin was a middle middle mid-rangement there was later so that's the question this is a famous controversy in the Muslim world is it true that the Judgment of my parents had in their house um a lithograph from Yona weinrib foreign but then you know my parents upgraded their art and I got the lithograph and of course it's still sitting in my office on the side of my file cabinet but there's a thing that you'd gimmo either many yeshivas they have in the classroom the only thing is this seems not to have been invented by your absolanter the scenes have been the invention of Benjamin Franklin so we go to the official record of the Muslim movement anybody you know the official recorder and biographer of the Muslim movement was ravdov Katz ravdov Katz was a talmud of sabotka a historian and he recorded all the biographical information we saw cilantro petterberger with Natalie Amsterdam the outer of calm of all the great Bali mostar he recorded their biographies he's the talmud of the uh altar he wrote a book which is out of print you can't get Italia I'm not even going to ask you this is this is probably the most difficult safer to find it's I'm not this is not even a tease you can't get it this is mom is like it's called the war against muscle shivas held it's not the correct approach and obviously patterburg they did promulgate mosur and ultimately it was fully accepted anyway the bottom line is legalize and has it [Music] okay um in the safer to know sir he brings that rabbis thrall's big Creation in other words before Rob is thrall there was something called there's something called charichuba there's something called but rebestral's Innovation was that you could work on Midas by training yourself which means not just sitting in front of a safer and mastering the that's in the safer but would give us tell me them exercises okay you're working on anivos so today you're gonna you're gonna take off your rabbinic Garb today you're gonna go and do things that are humbling and tomorrow you're going to do it again and the next day you're gonna do it again you would do exercises this was all part of rabies Royal's regimen and rabis Royal um promulgated the yudge that we quoted so very interesting ravdov Katz writes that listed these 13 meters now who's the cat says and he then writes in a footnote the following he doesn't agree with everything that tarte Mima says regarding that which sitarima says that rabbisraal said that these 30 meters include all Midas it's incorrect reviews was just giving suggestions of me and meet us to work on but of course if somebody feels their other medus they need to work on by all means you should put a part of your regimen why did Ravi straw pick 13 middays why did the safety husband pick 13 because this was the big discovery of the safer on Netflix which ultimately Benjamin Franklin he was the one who invented it that if you want to work on amida don't work on it for a month straight or a year strength you pick one me though you work on it for a week and you drop it and then the next me though you work on it for a week and you drop it and the third me that you're working when you drop it for the course of 13 weeks then you start over again and you do it again this way each media you end up working on four weeks out of the year and if you dropped it and come back to it psychologically it reinforces what you learn if if every day you're going to work on the same either the same me the same either becomes road it becomes tiring it becomes boring so you switch it up you have a whole cyclical system and says cats if you want to know where does the safer husband come from of course it's a takeoff from Benjamin Franklin so if anybody had any doubts that there's any connection between the safer and Benjamin Franklin says obviously one is a takeoff on the other but as we're going to see there are very basic and important distinctions and we're going to talk about the importance of the safer manifest unique quality of the safer husband on Netflix how it's different from all other Muslims farm and ultimately how it differs from what Benjamin Franklin had in mind so the first thing that's brought in the safer conscious is this author remember of satanov translated other works as well if he in fact translated Franklin he translated a lot of secular works for example the safer refuse um which is a translation of the philosopher tiest he he acknowledges I translated it his work into Yiddish he also translated into yadish and michelang so that was his specialty he was a translator he was able to present one language in a different language but now the question is who was this person is he reliable is this reliable safer is it considered a holy work so says the country that our emuna is based on the fact foreign I no that doesn't mean he's a hundred percent right but it's more likely that he's more correct than me because he's more connected to the tire than I am so if what do the say about this so they say as follows that in 1845 Reb Israel the god of Hadar vouched for the safer um in 1894 there was a great gun reviews Yeshiva not only that the grocery of Isaac share you know you ever hear of Isaac share I said was the rashiba of slavatka in slab he was the son-in-law of the outer of the outer Sabbath he left slabka with his son-in-law of Isaac share I used to have this to go to a Victor Miller but Victor Miller was a talmud of revised it comes with a forward from revision he's the rebe of rabistro salanter he was fond of this that he even rewrote it in his own handwriting not only that 12 guide who were they look on the top left-hand side of your page raviaco of Ornstein who's Rebecca Bornstein is the yes we're dealing with all-time great godlam gave a haskama to the safer so the author of this contrast says that he asked a godo by the name of gershwin-wise please do some research who exactly is this why did he translate a philosophical work on Medicine by one of the secular doctors is he in fact what some people said was he a mass skill now you have to know that sometimes somebody will have the title my skill but it doesn't mean he's one of the masculine he could just be what is called an academic you know what the difference is between an academic studies Torah in depth and academic will sometimes study other disciplines whatever it may be science mathematics medicine and maybe sometimes connected Torah so the question is who is this so this is what was discovered what was discovered was that this was an Eloy before some he was a great haraf and Not only was the great town of he happened to have a brilliant mind to study many many disciplines and he mastered many secular disciplines and because of that he had the capacity so to speak to being looked up to in the observant in the from world as somewhat of academic in other words he had the capacity to gain the respect of the greater Jewish World Beyond just the let's say because he was an intellectual okay be it as a May here's the story here's the Scoop he was such a massmid that he had terrible eye ailments so what did he have to do he had to go to Berlin watch out for Berlin because back in the day Berlin was the seat of the haskella and who does he meet in Berlin Moses Mendelson and Moses Mendelson sees in him a kindred spirit he sees you know an intellectual that somebody who he could handle with and he tried to influence him but even Moses Mendelson agreed his his nashama his kadusha was so strong that he was not able to sort of make Headway with him but this is where perhaps the mistake rose that this bordered on what we'll call Academia but in fact it was discovered that he was a great Sadiq a great Goin a great town and while he did translate a secular work of medicine and he did translate he wrote with great kadusha now what about the fact that it seems to be based on Benjamin Franklin yeah and it's the same order so we're going to examine that very soon okay we're going to examine what exactly were Franklin's 13 Midas and how does that match up to what what he did now in the conscious they bring a very um a very compelling and Powerful which is not so well known in let's say the Yeshiva World in Lithuania they have a different take Hashem than anyone else they have an expression which sums it all up you ready for this expression they would say like this from every that expression from somebody once told you know in uh in Lita they say like this not from from not from and then be smart the first things they have to be smart you have to know how to think clearly you have to know how to think straight if you can't think straight then the fromchitis far crumbed there's nothing worse than Chrome from kite so you need to be Klingon from not from Uncle from isagalog that's that's the mahalakalita service would say the following that if somebody just knows hiroshimaim let's say someone's a very big yaroshimaim no he's a big guy so he's gonna jump up in the morning and run to shul and dive in with his slavos and learn with a brand and he's going to do everything correct Ruby swallow says no he's not it's not enough to be a yarishra I would say together with you have to know mili the alma now what is this is not you have to know secular disciplines it's not you have to know mathematics it's not you have to know science no that's not the shital is you have to know is self-awareness if you don't know how a human being operates if you don't know the internal mechanics of the human Persona if you don't understand why people react certain ways to certain um methods or if you don't understand why you react certain ways to certain things then you can have all the years in the world it's still not going to help you meet your end goal so rabistro would say you need to combine your shamayam with Miley the alma this was the big shita of Israel salanter and robustrial really praised the safest because we're going to see is the most unique of all the Muslim all the Muslims Farm you see a person is composed of two elements and by the way this what I'm about to say actually comes from the safe because you don't have to you have to look at yourself imagine there's an old old man I know you guys don't know what old is old is like you know people who are 170 you know you know the joke about the guy who came into the life insurance office let's see who's listening to this year Ellie sisma you know this joke you probably know this joke Stephen you ready for a good joke okay I guess I'll take that you ready okay okay so Joe's like this in the early days of the state of Israel you know a guy comes in do you know the the the there is a movement the operation Magic Carpet so the the Israeli government you know um took in the taimanim right and they shipped in thousands they flew overnight thousands of Taman into Israel and of course the Timonium have no record of how old they were so they had extraordinary claims of how old they were so a temaniju comes into a life insurance office and he says I would like to buy a policy so the lady says really she looks at him the guy looks like he's you know ancient history how old are you he says I'm uh I'm uh 82. she says you're 82 and you wanna you wanna buy a policy they can't sell your policy you're too old he said what my father came in last week and you sold him a policy your father so you saw him how old is your father well there's 105. if I was 105 reminded the alma Kuma we got how do we somehow impossible she checks the record sure enough they sold the father policy last week so he said look we sold your father policy we're going to sell you a policy come in next Tuesday then next Tuesday I can't go next I have a wedding she says I hope you don't mind that who's winning my grandfather your grandfather how old is your grandfather she's 127. he's 127 he's getting married he said it's not him his parents are forcing him into it so that's you know people used to live very old ages that's old so we saw um says that if you want to know what is a human being you have an old guy he could barely move his Limbs and he's riding on a donkey Now The Old Man and the Donkey they don't want the same thing in life the old man needs to get to a destination the donkey wants to sit here and do absolutely nothing so what's the old man gonna do if he's smart he knows he has to feed the Donkey if you give the donkey what you want the Donkey will take you take you where you want to go so a person has to know there consisted of a Sega which is like an old man and a donkey which is the nephew Bahamas you know we want to eat we want to sleep we want pleasure so the of life is how are you going to get to oil because look the only way you get there is with this donkey your body but you're not a dog your donkey is not going up to shamaim it's it's the old man it's the Sega so the secret got to figure out how am I going to get this behemo in need to go and do what I want to do talks to the sejal the intellectual the only safer that helps you overcome and understand so now I want to just show you in the safer conscious uh he brings a analysis of Benjamin Franklin's as opposed to Ruby solantha so here it goes here are the 13 principles of Benjamin Franklin and they go like this number one don't eat Stam you know oh it's 11 30. what do I do now chakras was two hours ago I don't know I'll eat something why are you eating you're not really hungry you know we let our kids fool us Daddy Daddy I'm starving not starving you just you ate supper two hours how are you starving but America you eat as a thing it's like a thing to do you don't have anything to have nothing to eat now I don't I don't have a computer now so now what am I gonna do I'm gonna eat so Benjamin Franklin said do not eat unless you need to do not drink unless you need to that's the first meat the number two speaking don't speak unless there's a benefit in your words if what you're about to say is no benefit don't say it number three order every item should have a place every every subject should have a time which is diligence from the moment you decide to do something do it with full with full heart is a stinginess don't spend money for no reason you should give a husband for the uh the money that you you should have a cousin for the money that you spend oh I saw this looks really nice I'm gonna buy it so Benjamin Franklin's value is don't buy it if you don't need to spend the money okay what was it say a penny saved as a pennyer honesty don't be deceitful don't be disingenuous whatever you say you should mean wholeheartedly said that righteousness don't do any anything uh don't commit any iniquity don't hurt somebody don't refrain from helping somebody a messinos messino says balance try to avoid extremes okay these are all the values so to speak of Benjamin Franklin cleanliness tranquility and by the way Dara heretz now what does derekareth refer to so in Hebrew it says refers to something that should not be in a Jewish book that means uh this was Benjamin Franklin's uh code of marital interaction okay by the way just off the Record even though Benjamin Franklin was probably the greatest American ethicist he was no saint because later in life he acknowledged a illegitimate son as many of the founding fathers did okay so this is already the first hefrish and havedel between ethics that come from a person's sekhal and ethics that are misinai with hiroshimaim because here it is the greatest ethicist failed and by his own admission no this this is the in the countries that he didn't want to write in a Jewish book what what Franklin was referring to and then finally is humility yeah yeah we already said with his 13 me dice are Peace of Mind patience order diligence cleanliness humility righteousness careful in spending money energy energetic action stika Ms okay now are the midoys very close very close did one come from the other cats look I wasn't there it's before my time rubdov Katz said yes there's no question there's no question that the middle is an offshoot of Benjamin Franklin now marvara boysai here's the nikuda what is the reality about husband and the reality is that there is such a fundamental difference between the midoys of Benjamin Franklin and the Midas of the safer khesar and this is really the nakuda of the Thai Society the first touch the bartonura the first bartonormis we all know percivals begins which is a Pella you know isn't that random we should begin you could begin any message is the answer is says about tanura because I mistakenly would have said that when baishan may says that when you see someone you should smile that why should you smile because when you see someone you should give them a smile no that's not the reason we don't have courtesy and etiquette the way the founding fathers did we don't believe in that we have courtesy and ethics because God told me by the way to be black and there's something called the paraduma and there's certain type of behavior which is expected and required as Umi Sinai and this is the difference between yes did Benjamin Franklin invent a concept of yudgemon in all likelihood at least according to of those cats he for sure did based on it it seems it's based on it however why didn't give him credit the answer is because he did because if anybody ever opens if you look in paragraph he writes I want everyone to know that there's a hakam in America who invented an invention then in his opinion an invention like this has never been discovered since the printing press and he hopes that this invention spreads throughout the world and you know what the invention is the invention is that the best way to work on Midas is not to say okay I'm going to work on Ms for a year or onivus for a year or kinna for a year if you take a meter you work on it for a week and then you move on to another media and you move on to another Meda and basically the kajwan on Netflix is giving credit to Benjamin Franklin for this discovery I mean would there be any problem if the safer route you know there's a guy in America he came up with a great invention it's called light bulbs and therefore I want everybody during the night time to learn Torah because Thomas Edison discovered a light bulb would there be any historian in that kind of muscle of course not is there a problem because a Jew did not invent a camera that you can't use the camera of course not if it helps people learn so you use it as long as you give credit towards credits do you sell the camera it happens to be true Frank when I take off of our slices and meters maybe maybe Franklin you know got the idea of yudgemon um I don't know I don't know it's not really important it's not really that it doesn't really make a difference the bottom line is though if you read the safe the manner of analysis with which treats each Meda is on a completely different plane than the ethics of Benjamin Franklin because the goal of Benjamin Franklin was to be like Dale Carnegie would say to Win Friends and Influence People it was merely to get ahead in this world it was merely to be respected in this world it was a shaloi leshma it was not for the Divine aspect of the human being but if you study the same for example he talks about the importance of you know describes the importance of peace of mind says the a person is Guided by his the sekhal is at the top of the human it's The Guiding Light of human being and when a person has peace of mind and Clarity of thought then he's able to govern all of his activities by The Dictator but the moment someone is off kilter somebody the moment somebody is overwhelmed the moment somebody is thrown off and now he's acting out of impulsively so now a person will not be able to exercise free choice how could someone exercise free choice when his sake hell is clouded and is in in turmoil and is off-kiltern and therefore this is a very different approach to um self-improvement than the approach of you know American ethics American ethics is you know let's have a civil society let's have uh let's get along for the betterment of mankind but the ethics of the Torah is a completely different system the ethics of the Taurus blew into the human being a Divine soul and the Divine soul is created in the image of and by adopting certain character traits and and working on certain middays you become more and more and more like and you're elevating the nashama to be that which was it was created to be so the bottom line is extolled greatly by rabies is a very in-depth analysis of how to deal with enough is it based on 13 traits of Franklin many say in Clintonville cats yes is that an issue it's not an issue the same way if you come in with a flashlight if a outcome is holding a flashlight then you walk by the Light so if these are valid Salient points which have been endorsed by Israel like the yeshua's Yakov like then we know that this is and by the way salanta never said that these are mamesh taramisinai and there are no other media and whatever meters you feel you need to work on you should work on you could open up take out the list of 25 meet us and they should all be worked on but this is just some of the background and interesting how somebody living on the other end of the world his his uh Discovery was actually adopted by Israel to some extent and this is something we still use till today but uh as khazal tell us if somebody tells you the guy you have wisdom you believe them but if somebody says have Divine wisdom they don't have Divine wisdom sometimes they have said for the for the most part is often distorted by the hemdan taiva but there's a concept you know you take from where you could get it and ultimately the Bali monster did adapt some of these practices and as the gross says if somebody is not constantly working on their Midas and that's the tactless of living for someone to purify their Midas which results paraduma yeah yes yaakov how you doing um yeah thank you yeah you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by Tora anytime.com