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Good to Great | Part 15: A Lust for Learning?

Jewish Wealth Creation

Release Date: 09/02/2025

Money after Life | Part 1: Working for your children show art Money after Life | Part 1: Working for your children

Jewish Wealth Creation

It's a natural desire to leave ample wealth for your family’s security when you pass on. But it's also lazy. Hashem gave you money to distribute while you are alive! Only you can fulfill the unique role of allocating wealth to the right places. Dive into our Sages view on tzedaka & inheritance - how to use your money well while you are alive, and avoid regrets when you can no longer call the shots.

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Good to Great | Part 15: A Lust for Learning? show art Good to Great | Part 15: A Lust for Learning?

Jewish Wealth Creation

Lust for food and women don't seem like lofty Torah subjects! If anything, they're antithetical to a lifestyle of sitting & learning. But the Vilna Gaon teaches us that they can work together - enabling a person to connect deeply to the Torah, purifying them and quelling their lustful desires. Bring your whole being into learning - that's the secret to Greatness!

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Good to Great | Part 14: The secret to lust suppression show art Good to Great | Part 14: The secret to lust suppression

Jewish Wealth Creation

Quite extraordinary, the antidote to powerful lusts for food, drink and sexuality is… torah learning. This leaves us with a surprising riddle - how will we shlep a lustful, lazy person into the beis midrash… let the Vilna Gaon enlighten us

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Good to Great | Part 13: Productivity is the cure show art Good to Great | Part 13: Productivity is the cure

Jewish Wealth Creation

What does the Torah recommend to temper our lowest and most physical desires? Your desire for wealth is a surprisingly effective tool for this - it makes you productive, while simultaneously quelling your base desires that are born from idleness.   Your desire for wealth can help you build a magnificent life that’s productive and sin free.

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Good to Great | Part 12: The beauty of hard work show art Good to Great | Part 12: The beauty of hard work

Jewish Wealth Creation

The Torah lauds the benefit that hard work has in your life. Idleness and laziness open the door for your yetzer hora to take control and cause havoc in your life. Hard work is an essential ingredient to keep your base desires in check

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Good to Great | Part 11: Stay in your lane show art Good to Great | Part 11: Stay in your lane

Jewish Wealth Creation

The competitive desire to be the best can make you exceptional, but it needs guidance. Do you really need to be the best at everything? And if your competitor is beating you, how should you respond? In this series, you’ll learn how to harness your competitive nature to give you the edge

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Good to Great | Part 10: The Upside of Jealousy show art Good to Great | Part 10: The Upside of Jealousy

Jewish Wealth Creation

Jealousy and competitiveness can destroy you. But with some perspective,  you'll see that it can actually propel you closer to Hashem. Tap into your competitive nature and make yourself a great servant of Hashem.

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Good to Great | Part 9: The Drive to Win show art Good to Great | Part 9: The Drive to Win

Jewish Wealth Creation

Is being competitive a bad trait? Should you squash your desire to be the best? Your competitive drive can make you exceptional if used correctly. Squash it, and you're staring mediocrity in the face. The natural drive to be the best is a powerful tool to serve Hashem. Use it to your advantage, just like many Torah giants have done - transforming their lives and the world around them.

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Good to Great | Part 8: Loosen your fist show art Good to Great | Part 8: Loosen your fist

Jewish Wealth Creation

The Torah tells us to build wealth by giving money away - a seemingly counterintuitive strategy? But a deeper look into this strategy will help you build real wealth and transform your entire character. Tzedaka is your superpower in wealth creation and a healthy relationship with money.

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Good to Great | Part 7: The Power of Prayer show art Good to Great | Part 7: The Power of Prayer

Jewish Wealth Creation

Prayer is a powerful tool for you to build a relationship with Hashem. Ultimately, it's that relationship that determines your success or failure. You pour out your deepest desires in prayer - but what makes Hashem listen to you? Learn how your desire for wealth can develop a beautiful relationship with Hashem - with real connection & respect.

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Lust for food and women don't seem like lofty Torah subjects! If anything, they're antithetical to a lifestyle of sitting & learning.

But the Vilna Gaon teaches us that they can work together - enabling a person to connect deeply to the Torah, purifying them and quelling their lustful desires.

Bring your whole being into learning - that's the secret to Greatness!