The Motivation Congregation: The #1 Torah & Mussar Podcast
Michoel Brooke
744 episodes
1 week ago
A deal gone sideways can expose more than a bad contract—it can reveal the gap between who we say we are and how we actually work. I share a raw story from my first 49 days in real estate, when I expected the market to behave like yeshiva and slammed into a seller who hid flaws and cut corners. That moment forced me to confront a quiet assumption: that Torah belongs in shul while business belongs to its own rules. Once I saw the split, I couldn’t unsee it. What follows is a practical, person...
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A deal gone sideways can expose more than a bad contract—it can reveal the gap between who we say we are and how we actually work. I share a raw story from my first 49 days in real estate, when I expected the market to behave like yeshiva and slammed into a seller who hid flaws and cut corners. That moment forced me to confront a quiet assumption: that Torah belongs in shul while business belongs to its own rules. Once I saw the split, I couldn’t unsee it. What follows is a practical, person...
Twelve Against Ten Million (Lessons From the Chanukah Story & Miracle)
The Motivation Congregation: The #1 Torah & Mussar Podcast
3 minutes
3 weeks ago
Twelve Against Ten Million (Lessons From the Chanukah Story & Miracle)
A single van’s worth of fighters against a sprawling empire isn’t the setup for a myth—it’s the spine of a moral challenge. We take a hard look at the Maccabean revolt and strip it of sentimental glow: twelve or so members of a rabbinic family stood against a Greek world packed with soldiers, arms, elephants, and millions of citizens. The numbers weren’t close, and that’s the point. The heart of Hanukkah is not cute; it’s costly. It asks what happens when conviction refuses to make peace with...
The Motivation Congregation: The #1 Torah & Mussar Podcast
A deal gone sideways can expose more than a bad contract—it can reveal the gap between who we say we are and how we actually work. I share a raw story from my first 49 days in real estate, when I expected the market to behave like yeshiva and slammed into a seller who hid flaws and cut corners. That moment forced me to confront a quiet assumption: that Torah belongs in shul while business belongs to its own rules. Once I saw the split, I couldn’t unsee it. What follows is a practical, person...
