WE MADE IT! Lessons Learned from a Year of Daily Torah Podcasting

Can you believe it's been a year since we started this incredible journey of podcasting and studying Hashem's Torah daily? This milestone wouldn't have been possible without the help and support of my family, friends, and our amazing sponsors. As I reflect on this life-changing experience, I want to share the valuable lessons and insights I've gained along the way, which have helped me grow personally and spiritually.

This episode discusses the importance of consistency, competition, and giving back in our pursuit of greatness. Through this journey, we've discovered that when we open our hearts and minds to the teachings of the Torah and dedicate ourselves to helping others, Hashem guides and supports us every step of the way. Remember, greatness is possible for all of us - all it takes is a leap of faith and the courage to start. So join me as we celebrate one full year of podcasting and continue our pursuit of greatness together.

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It's overwhelming.

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It is one of the happiest days of my life.

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It really is.

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Without exaggeration, say that we came together to study Hashem's Torah every single day, bechavru.

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So we didn't miss a day.

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And it's impossible without the help of the Almighty Impossible without all of the different Real effort from my wife, from my family, from my father, mother, the donations, the Chanukah gifts of the microphones and my father-in-law, my mother-in-law, the constant support and dedication and the spreading of it and the financial help and all the sponsors of the show.

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and there's so many different takeaways from it that I have and so many different pieces of wisdom that have come my way that I've been able to see that they just keep repeating themselves and I felt it would be important It will provide you some value to share them.

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And after a year of this, something just never worked, constantly failed and blew up in my face, felt like I was wasting my time in other places.

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Remarkable, surprising Hatslaha, and the first thing that I just I don't know if it's talked about enough is that the beginning of the motivation congregation before it really kind of I started to really spread it and try to promote it was it was a friend of mine who was in a schnitzel shop with me in Aretzis Troll, who said, brooke, why are you doing this?

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No one's gonna listen to you, don't you know?

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There are a lot of people that have a lot better things to say.

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And he was right, but fired me up And the competition that I found.

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If a person knows himself and he likes competition, then it can really help you do some cool things.

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And the idea and even though maybe it was bad of trying to amass followers and have connecting with people and Torah to be able to like tell my friend that look, it worked.

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Some people listen Cannot slide from Tahrir Bahkhov.

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Well, friends, competition often is an important piece of what we can achieve.

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Secondly, somebody once told me that if you ever told me that I had to brush my teeth, i'm forced to brush my teeth every single day for the rest of my life.

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I'd be afraid and I'd be frightened by that daunting task.

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But eventually, when you just do something with consistency over and over again, you becomes easier, becomes second nature, and I found that, while this started out as a brutal process of having to record and find something and then have my wife sync all the audio and the video and then add us you know a line at the end that was catchy and add some music and it felt like so much.

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And then eventually you can take harder things And if you do them with consistency, you can make them an Hashem el-Muh, that you can make them second nature and make even the really hard Pretty easy.

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Another takeaway that I found is that when we actually open up to parts of the Torah with an open head and with honesty and we let the words talk to us, when we don't try to put our own spin on what we think the Talmud is trying to say or what really Ghazal must meant, but instead open up our ears and just become a blank canvas to let the words hit us, you find gems, you find diamonds and you start to understand HaFukhba, hafukhba the Kulaba, that everything is inside of the Torah.

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You just have to let it talk to us, as opposed to trying to play broken telephone and put your own spin on it.

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I further discovered that when, ultimately, you want something, you're trying to amass HaFukhba.

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You're trying to amass money, you're trying to amass anything that you want in life.

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If you give it, you're gonna get it.

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It's just a weird nature of the world.

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If a person goes ahead and says I am going to try to make people smile, you're gonna end up smiling.

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I'm gonna try to give away money somehow The people that give the biggest charity checks often have it come right back to that.

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There's a lot of different khachma and tawa why this is, but it just seems to be there's actually a couple madrashim about this and encourage somebody who wants something wisdom, money, anything give it, because it seems to come right back to you.

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And, lastly, when you take upon yourself the responsibility to be m'zaka Esarabin, to try to help other people, to try to give to someone else, god helps you.

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I'm not a kid who has any focus capacity.

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That's the truth.

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My brain's in a million different places, just like any other kid in 2023, but there's a lot going on in life, but sometimes, when you just try to help or teach someone else try to do khest, try to do the motivation congregation Sometimes you find three minutes to actually focus on something.

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That's just the truth, and I hope that these lessons are valuable to you and they'll help you to come to the same conclusion that I came to, which is that in 2023, when a person says we're so far from Harsina and that is somebody here gonna bring mashiah, somebody here gonna reach godless, somebody here gonna become greater and the villain are going, and someone here gonna mimic the ways of Avraham Avinu.

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I say, and I've discovered that there, i see there are people doing it Godless is 100% possible.

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And all the more darkness and khestah let a person's brightness shine even more with all of the different distractions and all of the different tuma in the world, and only further lets a person's candle shine that much brighter.

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I've discovered that if you work on something and you follow the ways of the people that are really doing good things, you find that godless, greatness is really possible and ultimately you take a leap and you don't say I will, i'm going to, i gotta, but you just start.

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Funny things happen and sometimes they're really good things.

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So ultimately it's with a ton of akharsatov to anyone who came to listen and I think, just remember that godless, that greatness is possible and the best way to start is to start.

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Thank you.

WE MADE IT! Lessons Learned from a Year of Daily Torah Podcasting

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