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Do you think people lean too much into
making money? Right. We all need money
to live. We're not at the point where
things are available to everybody off a
tree. So this idea of going to work is
promoted and for good reason. But once
5:00 comes around and people should be
leaving the office, they stay back
because
that need for money,
>> right? assuming they're paying their
bills and they're okay, but hey, I need
to put money away for retirement. I need
to make more money because I want to do
more things. I I need more things. I
want more things. I want to provide
more. At what point does it become, hey
buddy, slow down.
>> Well, you know, a lot of times, by the
way, that's not even the belief that the
person has
upon which they are basing this
behavior, this workaholic behavior. It's
not even not even a true concept.
Meaning to say, who says that by working
more, you're actually going to make
more? Who says?
Plenty of people work very long hours
and they lose money. And then there are
people who I mean I I know plenty of
people who they they work a couple hours
a day and they make a ton of money,
right? So I mean for this you have to
have a spiritual perspective but
livelihood comes from God. It's a
blessing. It's allotted to us based on
the judgments that are made in heaven.
And you can't earn one penny more than
what is allotted to you.
And here's the thing what people don't
understand.
It's not what you earn, it's what you
keep.
So you can have a lot of money passing
through your hands. I've seen people
like that. A lot of money passes through
their hands, but they don't keep it.
They don't spend it on good stuff. They
don't spend it on anything that they can
value long term.
>> Medical bills.
>> Well, yeah, that's the classic. God
forbid, you know, a person will pay
anything to get their health back and
uh, you know, money just disappears,
right? or or other things where
you know
you make you
stupid things like you know I don't want
to put it down in case somebody's
watching and going to sound like I'm
bashing your hobby but like you know
classic example buying a boat right okay
you know maybe somebody needs a boat I
don't know but you know I just I've seen
that too many times where somebody is
like I don't know I was making a lot of
money and now I'm in debt. And uh where
did all your money go? I don't know. We
had a yacht and bought a horse. Like,
dude,
that's that's what you did. So maybe a
lot of money passed through their hands,
but they didn't they didn't hold on to
it and they didn't use it in any
productive way.
So, uh this this belief, yeah, I'm going
to work more. I'm going to make more.
I'm going to make more. No, you're not.
No, you're not. You have to understand
the purpose of work.
Purpose of work is to provide God with
plausible deniability.
God has to be able to deny that he did a
miracle. Even though it's really a
miracle when God sustains us, it's a
miracle. Like
Moses in the the desert with uh the
children of Israel 40 years eating bread
from heaven, you know, they were
miraculously sustained. Today we don't
have bread from heaven. Today we have
bread from the earth. We don't even take
it from the earth because we're not
farmers. We go to the store and we we
buy it, right? But the bread that we buy
is just as miraculous as the bread from
heaven, the the the mana. Um why why is
it just as miraculous? Because think
about it like we create our own our own
sustenance. We don't create it. We can't
create it. it we we receive it and but
you know we have a natural narrative for
how it occurred so we don't observe or
appreciate the miracle involved but of
course it's a miracle but we have to
hide the miracle because God desires
that
there be free choice and that things
appear natural in the world so therefore
you go to work
to hold out a cup to catch the flow of
the blessing
But the cup doesn't generate
the the flow of the blessing. The cup
just catches it. So you go to work to
have a natural vessel. By natural, I
mean non-miraculous,
but it really is a miracle. But God can
turn around and say, "I didn't do a
miracle." See, if you were just to sit
on your couch and never do anything and
then God would have to somehow make you
rich while you sit on your couch all
day, you'd have to do an obvious
miracle. But if you have some alibi for
God where you can say, "Oh, it wasn't a
miracle. I have a company. I made some
investments. Uh I bought something. I
sold something." Now God could say, "I
didn't do a miracle. It happened
naturally." We all know it didn't happen
naturally, but that's again that's the
plausible deniability. So when you're
working, don't think that your work
generates income, doesn't it? Your work
is merely the cup that you're holding
out within which to receive the income.
And therefore, if you really want to put
in extra time, don't put in extra time
at the office. Now, you have to put in
some time because it can't be a miracle.
It has to be natural. So you figure out
what what would be the natural
amount of work that you'd have to do.
But don't do more than that. You want to
do extra. You want to put in overtime.
Okay, I got an idea. You can put in
overtime doing acts of goodness and
kindness. You can put in overtime
studying Torah. You can put in overtime
in prayer. That's where you should put
in your overtime
>> because that's what really the
determines the flow of the blessings.
>> Can I take it a step further?
>> Yeah, please. So if going to work, and I
love that, the vessel. I've never heard
that before. If going to work creates a
vessel in which you're catching the
blessing,
>> yes, overwork merely widens the vessel,
but you're catching the same blessing.
>> And I'll take it even further than you
just took it.
>> Go for it.
>> Which is
to agree with you, right? It's just
making a bigger vessel, but doesn't
Right. It doesn't create more content.
>> Same flow.
>> Same flow, right? And then even more,
I'll add it even I'll up the ante even
more. Sometimes the vessel gets so big
that it becomes unwieldy. It's clumsy.
It's it's getting in the way. You're
tripping on it. Like I don't need that
size of a vessel. It's like imagine I I
want a drink of water and you bring me a
kitty pool to drink out of. Like I I
can't use this giant. I need a cup like
this. And then that's plenty of water
for me to be hydrated. But imagine if
I'm trying to drink uh 6 ounces of water
out of a kiddie pool and I have to hold
that thing. That would be unwieldy,
cumbersome, right? So expand, expand,
expand the vessel.
