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When Shlichus Becomes a Crutch

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throwing him out of camp the next day. I remember when I was a head counselor in in Gan Yisroel, I used to like I was I was I was upset that sometimes the staff members wouldn't wake up in the morning for for davening. So, they used to tell me, "Look, we're we're on shlichus here. We're up late at night with the kids." So, sometimes like shlichus can become like the crutch of not of like because we're on shlichus nefesh, like we don't even end up like doing the bare minimum. That could happen, and that's happened to me. Could happen to anybody when you're very idealistic and very pushing. So, I remember I went and visited a and and not Lubavitch camp. And I and I just asked them like do you have struggle with with kids like staff members that are 18 19 years old like coming to shacharis? They're like, "What? Staff members don't come to shacharis? Throwing him out of camp the next day." So, we're going to quit the question is that. So, I remember thinking to myself that like like here you have like shlichus can sometimes become a little bit like the crutch where like the bare let's get the least the bare minimum, you know what I mean? And then the shlichus should be on top of that. So, I think that there's a healthy