Once Upon a Soul #11: "The Risers"

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

you Brie ice there were creatures there were people that were walking the knife Lim and they were continuously falling and the rest of the world was walking proceeding and reaching their destination where they were intending to go veheim but these particular people this group they were also walking along the Nephilim they kept on falling and they were incredibly incredibly pained by this everyone else's succeeding in reaching their destination they're making it to where they're going but we are falling Time and Time and Time and Time Again and there was a wise man who came to them and told them I'll call upon him to kumu at the very least despite what you're experiencing stand up and carry on walking and they listened to what he was telling them a wise piece of advice while you calm him and they were standing up and they were continuing their Journeys the knife flemen they were falling again and they were standing up again now the world had previously referred to these people had put a label on them they called them hanoiflum those who are falling all the time but to those who are watching and to those who had a deeper insight into what was happening here they couldn't believe that after so many failures failure upon failure falling again and again and again and continuing to rise and continuing to gather their strength and continue their Journey the people watching them couldn't believe it it was a Wonder to them so he uniteful eventually it became like they're falling that wasn't so incredible anymore to them like that was just that was their situation that was who they were spelling this was such a wonder that they kept on getting back up until despite the fact that they had been labeled by others as those who fall

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1. 0:32you Brie ice there were creatures there were people that were walking the knife Lim and…
2. 1:04pained by this everyone else's succeeding in reaching their destination they're making it to where they're…
3. 2:07falling all the time but to those who are watching and to those who had a…
4. 3:08they reframed their situation and began to refer to themselves as those who get back up…
5. 3:38certainty that they wouldn't make it very far that wasn't what concerned them and also everyone…
6. 4:40spoken about by Albert Einstein famously when he said that the definition of insanity is doing…
7. 5:42we put a label on ourselves we call ourselves the knife we call ourselves I forget…
8. 6:13but those who are getting up all the time what a privilege to be among those…
9. 7:15that we look at ourselves like it happens in the story they first started referring to…
10. 8:16may objectively be seen as success or failure subjectively to our who personally until we have…

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