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Ki Lekach Notzarto - Keeping it Kosher Clip

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When it comes to kashrus concerns, you  are thinking about the tzibur, you're   thinking about the community. Did you have role  models that you picked that up from? As I said,   I was learning in Kollel Emek Halacha. The Rosh  Yeshiva was Rav Tuvia Goldstein, ZT"L, a very   prominent rosh yeshiva and a posek. One day,  he got a question, a really serious question,   and I said to him, "could I ask a question  respectfully?" Because, as rabbis we get   questions all day, but usually, a question,  you know, if a food is gebrokts, is not the   same if somebody's going to live or die. How  do you take it on your shoulders to make that   decision? And he told me three words that Chazalm  our sages, use, "Ki Lekach Notzarto," which means   if a person believes that what he's doing, he's  doing because that's what God wants him to do. So,   that's why he's here in the world. And I live with  those three words, I wouldn't say just every day,   I would really say every hour. There are some  tough days. Sometimes you would just say what   do I need this for? But then I remember what  my Rabbi said, "Ki Lekach Notzarto." If you   believe that that's why you're here,  then you do what you've got to do.