Ketores Lessons: Sweeten the Sour

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The opening of this shiur, in Charlie Harary’s own words— taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

one of the greatest blocks in our life to our own growth and our own happiness and our own success is negative we have good and bad inside us ever since the sin of Adam harishon it's within us to and raah good and evil positive and negative and how we deal with that the thoughts the traits the things I did how we deal with negativity is what's really blocking us from the life that we want so how do we deal with negativity so there's a secret that we find in the curas and I want to share with you an idea found from The Works of Moshe Shapiro and here's what he says if you notice something fascinating mosha Renu goes to shamayim right and he wants to get the Torah and the angels are fighting him to not give it to him and he outplays them to the point in which they want to give it to him and they start giving him gifts and the gifts that the Mal gives him is the gift of the koras what is that why is he giving gift of the koras he says actually remember this Angel is not just the Mal it's not just the angel of death he's also the Satan he's also the yahari he's the evil inclination so the evil inclination is giving mosha a gift wh why because he's giving him the secret of himself what does that mean listen to

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1. 0:00one of the greatest blocks in our life to our own growth and our own happiness…
2. 0:31from the life that we want so how do we deal with negativity so there's a…
3. 1:02they start giving him gifts and the gifts that the Mal gives him is the gift…
4. 1:33this the curus had 11 spices one of them the was Sour had a bad smell…
5. 2:04it well with all the other spices it revealed the sweetness of that spice as well…
6. 2:34within it R Shapiro says this is the secret of the of of the curas in…
7. 3:05but he's in an environment that it's manifesting negative that trait that you have that's negative…
8. 3:39the negative really the negative could be really just covering the essential positive and the exercise…
9. 4:09possible that was within it that's the lesson of the that within the sour really is…
10. 4:40it finely finely and we put it around positive maybe that negativity can really reveal the…

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