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✨Strengthen your foundation → https://rivnitz.com/merit

Rabbi Landau teaches ✨Strengthen your foundation → https://rivnitz.com/merit.

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✨Strengthen your foundation → https://rivnitz.com/merit

If you’re always trying to be liked…
you’re guaranteeing you’ll never be respected.

Respect and likability don’t live in the same house.

You can tell people
what they want to hear.
Or you can tell them
what they need to hear.
Not both.

Shlomo HaMelech said it clearly

גֶּ֭בֶר מַחֲלִ֣יק עַל־רֵעֵ֑הוּ רֶ֝֗שֶׁת פּוֹרֵ֥שׂ עַל־פְּעָמָֽיו

“A man who flatters his friends
sets a trap beneath his own feet.”

Truth has weight.
Flattery floats.

Don’t chase approval.
Build respect.

Questions this teaching answers

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