Lust for food and women don't seem like lofty Torah subjects! If anything, they're antithetical to a lifestyle of sitting & learning. But the Vilna Gaon teaches us that they can work together - enabling a person to connect deeply to the Torah, purifying them and quelling their lustful desires. Bring your whole being into learning - that's the secret to Greatness!
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Good to Great | Part 14: The secret to lust suppression
Quite extraordinary, the antidote to powerful lusts for food, drink and sexuality is… torah learning. This leaves us with a surprising riddle - how will we shlep a lustful, lazy person into the beis midrash… let the Vilna Gaon enlighten us
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Good to Great | Part 13: Productivity is the cure
What does the Torah recommend to temper our lowest and most physical desires? Your desire for wealth is a surprisingly effective tool for this - it makes you productive, while simultaneously quelling your base desires that are born from idleness.  Your desire for wealth can help you build a magnificent life that’s productive and sin free.
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Good to Great | Part 12: The beauty of hard work
The Torah lauds the benefit that hard work has in your life. Idleness and laziness open the door for your yetzer hora to take control and cause havoc in your life. Hard work is an essential ingredient to keep your base desires in check
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Good to Great | Part 11: Stay in your lane
The competitive desire to be the best can make you exceptional, but it needs guidance. Do you really need to be the best at everything? And if your competitor is beating you, how should you respond? In this series, you’ll learn how to harness your competitive nature to give you the edge
Join Rabbi Justin Treger - a business leader and rabbi who himself traverses the worlds of Torah and commerce on a daily basis - on a journey exploring Torah sources that will guide you in integrating work as a key element in your Avodas Hashem.
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