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By adopting a philanthropic mindset, by
just being charitable, that itself can lead

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to well. That leads to great
well because developing an emotional detachment for money

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Well, uh, the next guest
has been on in a while, but

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we're really thrilled that he's with us
now. He has a new book called

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Rules to Live By My Monodes Guide
to a Wonderful Life. Talking about the

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Rabbi Jeffrey Katz Uh, Rabbi Cat's
been a while, It's been years since

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we spoke last. I'm really happy
to have you on to talk about this

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book. A monodes one of the
key figures in Judaism. Uh, you

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know, his wisdom been got a
long time a medieval philosopher. His wisdom

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still lives on, and we're fortunate
to have you restate and encapsulate that wisdom.

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What do you think if somebody didn't
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they looked at one thing, what
would be the best uh, what would

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be the most crucial guidance that my
mododies can offer to us who are living

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You're living in a much different time. Technology, we've got, you know,

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all these things going on, wars
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that's not really different. We've always
had wars all over but the world is

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a much smaller place, you know
Israel with what's going on there, but

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the ability to go to different places
in the world see different things. What

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is the one key takeaway from my
monodies that anybody could profit by? Almost

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immediately yep, Kerrie, it's great
to be here with you now. My

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monities. He lived eight hundred years
ago, but the principles he set out

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are so universal and so eternal.
They kind of work in every age.

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That's why you know Jewish schools throughout
the world, for example, as you

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mentioned, they're boring over. My
monodies work like NonStop at every major university

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they're studying my monodies because he was
kind of in both worlds. He was

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in the physical world, he was
the top doctor of his time, you

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know, basically personal position to the
King of Egypt more or less the Sultan

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in Cairo. And also you know, one of the greatest religious philosophers and

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really spiritualists who ever lived. So
he really had it in both worlds.

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And the advice that gives the fact
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era. The reason he still studied
throughout the world is because his ideas are

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still relevant. So you know,
many of the rules here that I discussed

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in the book Rules to live by
are so basic and you know, we'll

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see why. So you know,
as an example, so one of my

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monodies maxims. You know, he's
famous for a lot of expressions that we

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use all this tide. You like, give a man a fish, feed

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him for a day, teach a
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That's timonities. Another one of his
expressions is that, you know,

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he points to the importance of the
ability to make decisions. He says,

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the risk of a wrong decision is
preferable to the terror of indecision. Now

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as a practical maxim That's an amazingly
profound idea that he's pointing to. The

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critical importance just in leading any kind
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level to make decisions. Now,
decisions are not always going to be right.

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We're just human and my Mondoes is
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just the ability to make decisions,
it's so important. And when you combine

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those with a few other basic characteristics, like, for example, my mind

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that he says, you know,
lose with truth and right rather than win

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with falsehood and wrong. So he
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Like I mean, in politics today, in the politics riveting the country into

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two, it's mostly a function of
the fact that you know, on both

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sides of the aisle, people you
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not really the order of the day. You know in that field. You

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know, all of the problem we
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how we're going to fund all these
entitlements next generation. Nobody discusses them.

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They pretend they don't eat this because
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be good, you know, to
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what does that really say in terms
of one's integrity and the basic whether people

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really are going to want to deal
with you. So so these basic character

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traits he points to and talks about
how we need to work on, like

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the ability to be comfortable making decisions, being always truthful and trustworthy, being

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reliable. If someone just has those
characteristics, they've already set them those head

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and shoulders apart all of their competition. I mean, among other things,

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that any career, that person is
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organization, almost regardless of his IQ, regardless of his guilt. That just

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those basic traits of being to make
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person, just those traits you bet
yourself both far beyond your peers, that

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you're going to skyrock in in almost
every any business, any spear of yours,

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personal or professional relationships with your family
and friends. And that was true

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when he lived all those years.
Now it's true today and will probably always

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be true. As example, so
that the thing give him man of fish,

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and you feed him for a day, teach him at a fish,

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feed him for a lifetime. I
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gun and he can rob a bank. Give a man a bank and he

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can rob the world. Oh that's
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terrific. I wish I made it
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talking about integrity, true to oneself
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totally devoid from all of our institutions. All of our institutions, be they

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the World Health Organization, the cbd
C this, I should say, the

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you know, the Infectious Disease Department. Everything seems to be corrupted, our

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corporations corrupted the highest level. So
how does the monodes wisdom help us deal

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with that? Yeah? Well,
again, one of my mond thees principles

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is that let what's on your tongue
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and on your mind. And that's
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truthfulness and reliability. And again it's
going to be who are the kind of

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people that other people are going to
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professionally. You know, you take
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kind of nonprofit more or less organizations
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of like the idea of philanthropy,
but in some ways they've turned those ideas

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on their head and they've become you
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and just cronyism generally working for the
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philanthropy. You know my mom that
he's talks a lot about charity and again

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we talked about the event or teach
a man to fish example, but there's

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so much else to it, because
you know, people think of philanthropy that

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you become rich and then you go
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the points out it's really the opposite
is the process by adopting a philanthropic mindset,

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by just being charitable, that itself
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to great well because developing an emotional
detachment for money is almost job one in

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making good financial decisions. If you're
too emotionally tiught up with your money,

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you will never be able to become, you know, a person of mean

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because you have to spend money to
make money. If you can't, if

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you're too close to it, you'll
never make good financial decisions. The top

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virgeon will never operate on his own
child because they know they're just too close

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to the situation. They can't make
good decisions. So basically, by adopting

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a philanthropic mindset, even if you
don't particularly have too much money, everyone

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can give something some of the time, energy, whatever little means he has.

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By adopting a philanthropic mindset and developing
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really then off to the races,
and you can make excellent financial decisions,

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including a million other positives. You
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involved in causes where you're donating your
time and energy to you meet all kinds

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of people. The network you wind
up developing can wind up giving so many

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opportunities you never could have dreamt about. By by participating in some kind of

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worthwhile cause, you develop operational skills
and managerial skills, You learn how to

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operate a budget, all of the
skills that businesses will die for. So

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again, by by having a charitable
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wealth rather than the other way around. So it was actually so fascinating how

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that works in practice. Right,
Okay, so tell us, I guess

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you've worked with people on these principles
and helped bring them into their lives.

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Can you tell us some success stories
here. Yeah, sure, one thing

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I do want to mention Firsus.
You know my monody spelled again. He

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was great in the physical realm and
man of science, but he was also

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an amazing spiritualist, and he shows
us how to develop a link to God.

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And he is that that through the
mind. By creating, by thinking

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correct thoughts about God, you create
a tunnel up from your mind up to

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God. And it's through that tunnel
that God also looks down on you and

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provides for you and watches over you. It's through that tunnel that divine providence

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occuras. God can give you ideas. In that way, there is a

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divine overflow and overflowing abundance of ideas
and wisdom and love that is emanating from

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about at all time. But we
have to tune ourselves. It's like a

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radio. If you're not tuned properly, you're not going to pick up anything.

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If you are tuned properly, you're
going to pick up a lot.

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And you pick up that tuning by
removing the static. What's the static,

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that's all the negative, the envy, the grudges, the reactivity, the

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anger. You give up all that
and then you will see the sine posts

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that leads you to your best direction, and it becomes so clear to you

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at that time. But the only
way you can then see them, see

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those sine posts that head for your
life, is by first removing all of

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that static and all of those distractions. You know, I might sell carry

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I stumbled onto my Monomy's wisdom.
I was a teenager and I was actually

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going hope for one panth over and
my father just dropped this book about my

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Monody's on the dining room table.
It was very typical of his strategy not

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to tell me directly to read something, but he would just kind of leave

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it, leave it lying around.
And I kind of discovered that, and

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I saw that the the the I
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of that was really incredible. Really, you know, my monody has had

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a very hard life. The first
half of his life he was running away

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from basically religious fanatic the almo Ads, which were an extremist Islamic sect,

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to go over Spain when he was
a boy. Though the first half of

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his life he basically just was running
through jungles through far Is, trying to

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escape, you know, and half
of his life, half of his writings

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were done in those escapes, and
he even says, you know, if

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you be a little at first here, you should know that I'm I'm on

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a boat with other people would try
to run away. It's not the optimal

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writing condition. So you see little
Arris here. They're all lightful. Don't

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think there're anyone else's ball, but
you have to understand the circumstances them.

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But he felt a need to write
about these things and share his wisdom.

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He said that if I don't share
these things I've discovered and these ideas,

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They're going to die with me,
he said, And I'd be like I'm

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denying someone is there her rightful inheritance? And he said, I don't want

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to do that. I want people
to have these this knowledge that they need

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to be successful in these different areas. And in my own small way,

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because I've spent my life working in
this area and again teaching and instructing a

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lot of people about this, I
felt also a need to share these ideas

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with people. You know, especially
in this day and age, when you

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know people seem to be abandoning wholesale. A lot of ideas that have worked

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pretty well, some ideas have not
it's good to replace those. But you

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know, many ideas that work for
people and for society, or ideas that

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it took us hundreds of years,
if not thousands of years to develop.

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To think that we're going to throw
them all away and come up replace them

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entirely with a new set of ideas
now, and that they're all going to

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work. Great, I mean,
the odds of that working are really zero.

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So we do need to go back
just some ideas from the past,

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that's the great mud that are tried
and true with that of worked, and

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allow them to, you know,
give us what we really deserve out of

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life, and let them try our
lives around. Yeah, well I can

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see your point there. And you
know, certain wisdom is universal and applies

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now like it did thousands of years
ago, and we see evidence of that

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all around. All right, Well, hey, tell us where do we

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find your book? How do we
connect with you on the web? The

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Rabbi cats great. Thanks, So
the book is available everywhere. Rules to

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Live by My Monoty's Guide to a
Wonderful Life by Me by Jeffrey Kat available

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on Amazon, Barnes, and Noble
Target really everywhere books are sold and the

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viewers go on Amazon, they can
get into the book and get a lot

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of information about me through with those
links. All right, well, we

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Always a pleasure, Thanks so much, and great luck with the book.

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