Rav Reuven Feinstein: Why Working Harder Won't Make You Rich (According to the Torah)
Kosher Money
Living Lchaim
4.9 • 842 Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2026
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
What really determines how much money you make?
In this wide-ranging and refreshingly honest conversation, Rabbi Reuven Feinstein shares deeply practical Torah insights on livelihood, wealth, hustle culture, Shabbos spending, charity, and the balance between hishtadlus (effort) and bitachon (trust).
From growing up with very little, to teaching on a modest salary, to discussing billionaires and million-dollar questions — Rabbi Feinstein challenges the way we think about money.
Is working harder the answer? Is wealth a blessing or a test? How much hishtadlus is too much? And does YOUR money even belong to YOU?
Along the way, he shares personal stories about Rav Moshe Feinstein, America's leading Rabbi in the previous generation, business ethics, secular education, living within your means, and why Shabbos expenses “don’t count.”
I'm so thankful to Hashem that I experienced this conversation. Thank you to Avi Feinstein for making it happen.
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| 0:00.0 | A million dollars, I would say, is about $1,000 a day for about three years. |
| 0:08.0 | What if a kid can understand a thousand? |
| 0:10.0 | He handles already those numbers. |
| 0:12.0 | Right? A day he understands. |
| 0:14.0 | Three years he understands. |
| 0:16.0 | Makes sense. |
| 0:18.0 | What's a billion dollars? |
| 0:20.0 | A billion dollars is a thousand dollars a day for 3,000 years. |
| 0:23.6 | Can you understand that? |
| 0:25.6 | Yeah, 3,000 of you. |
| 0:29.6 | But who's 3,000? You can live 3,000 years. |
| 0:32.6 | Who's it for? |
| 0:33.6 | Do you think God gave it to you? |
| 0:35.6 | What do you give it to you for? |
| 0:38.8 | What are you going to do with it? |
| 0:41.5 | My father used to say, you know, |
| 0:43.7 | compared to him at Rockefeller. |
| 0:46.1 | He says, I make more than Rockefeller. |
| 0:48.5 | So when me, make more than Rockefeller. |
| 0:50.1 | Rockefeller works for nothing. |
| 0:52.2 | He has all the money he needs, he loves, so why is he working? |
| 0:57.0 | But I, whenever I work, I get money for him. |
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