“Great leaders don’t create followers they create leaders”
“It’s the people not like us that make us grow”
“Faith is the ability to hear the music beneath the noise”
You need to have friends who believe in you more than you believe in yourself
How do you deal with something that sparks widespread disapproval
Win the respect of the people you respect
It’s not about you
Radical individualism has gone too far — the two countries who did the worst with COVID are the most self centered — UK and US
When a rebbe speaks you think he is speaking to you, when a rabbi speaks you think he is speaking to the person next to you
On Rosh Hashana we believe that our fate is written and sealed and then 5 minutes later we sing about repenting and evading evil. We refuse to accept any fate as final
The Great Depression occurred because a selfish society tried to cover up real issues by partying and spending more money on the self following the Spanish flu, this did not end well
There needs to be a shift from I to We
The “woke” movement is making it socially unacceptable to take pride in the American story, the story of how I became we. There can be no national identity with this pattern of censorship
There is nothing less safe than a “safe space” — safe spaces are places where you can let your real opinions known and have people courteously disagree with you. Universities are defiling the definition of safe space.
The purpose of civilization is the collaborative pursuit of truth
Israel is the only country where people don’t have peanut allergies. It is because from a young age children eat bamba and develop immunity to peanuts. The same idea holds with ideas. When we shelter ourselves from ideas we become more vulnerable to them. It is healthy to be exposed to ideas you don’t agree with. It makes you a stronger person
We are cancelling people who have ideas different to our own. We are removing all the peanuts leaving the future generation with severe peanut allergies
Red teaming — having opponents attack your beliefs and assumptions, disagree with you to make sure your logic is sound
There is not true system of justice that doesn’t involve hearing from the other side