teshuva is possible

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/z2URkgKSr8M?feature=share

making it worse

 

Good place for Litvacks

 

Midwestern work ethic

 

9-5 and no more

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ZusbjEIGoIY?feature=share

even a rapper does this

none of this NY financial industry 7 am until midnight garbage

do you want to live in a place that's booming?

i want to live in a place that's sane

guess where Akon (the black guy telling the story) is from. Metro NEW YORK!

At age seven, he and his family relocated to Union City, New Jersey,^[16][17] splitting his time between the United States and Senegal until settling in Newark.^[15] Growing up in New Jersey, Akon had difficulties getting along with other children.^{[citation needed]} When he and his younger brother, Bu Thiam, reached high school, his parents left them on their own in Jersey City and moved the rest of the family to Atlanta, Georgia.^[18] Akon attended William L. Dickinson High School in Jersey City.^[19]

Guess where Eminem is from? Michigan. Marshall Bruce Mathers III was born on October 17, 1972, in St. Joseph, Missouri.  By the age of twelve, Eminem and his mother shuttled between states, rarely staying in one house for more than a year or two and mostly living with family members, moved several times and lived in St. Joseph, Savannah, Missouri, Kansas City, Warren, Michigan and Roseville, Michigan[16] before settling in Detroit.

Go out of town. save yourself, You don't have to live in NY

aging and don't marry for looks

 

The Rebbe was against Zionism

The Rebbe was against Zionism

 אמנם צריכים להיות נגד הציונות, אך את האנשים המחזיקים בה באופן אישי יש לקרב, כלומר: מקרבים כל יהודי מאחר שהוא יהודי, אך לא מקרבים יחד איתו את הציונות שבו ח"ו

שיחות קודש תשכ"ז ח"ב ע' 407

It is true that we must be against Zionism, but one should still engage in outreach with the people who cling to it. That is to say, one should do kiruv with every Jew because he is a Jew. However, the Zionism should not be brought in along with him.

Lubavitcher Rebbe

Sichos Kodesh, 5727, p. 407

musar

שְׁמַ֣ע בְּ֭נִי מוּסַ֣ר אָבִ֑יךָ וְאַל־תִּ֝טֹּ֗שׁ תּוֹרַ֥ת אִמֶּֽךָ׃

My son, heed the discipline (musar) of your father,
And do not forsake the instruction (torah) of your mother; 

Rashi:

Hearken, my son, to the discipline of your father What the Holy One, blessed be He, gave Moses in writing and orally.

your mother Heb. אמך [like אמתך], your nation, the nation of Israel, as in (Ezek. 19:2): “What a lioness was your mother [meaning your nation]!” These are the words of the Scribes, which they innovated and added and made safeguards for the Torah.

Thus musar is the written Torah, toras imecha is the words of the rabbis.

How can musar here mean chewing somebody out? It's compared to Torah.

People confuse tochacha (rebuke) with musar. To give somebody musar should only mean instruction, englightenment. 

rebuke is something else.

don't fear the word musar.