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Once Upon a Soul #2: The Person Who Changed from Good to Bad and Back

A story inspired by the teachings of Rav Asher Freund zt"l about personal transformation and…

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A story inspired by the teachings of Rav Asher Freund zt"l about personal transformation and redemption.

A 24 min chizuk shiur by Rabbi Yaakov Klein. Like every video on Lehallel, it was judged and approved under the Lehallel law before it ever appeared — no unreviewed result is ever shown.

Once Upon a Soul #2: The Person Who Changed from Good to Bad and Back
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What’s said in this shiur

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

the first story is a story about an individual who changed this person started off good enough but with his schalief he changed the Nia Lloyd and somewhere along the way became not so good but you agree us to maim and this process astounded people because in the beginning he was good and then he changed it became not so good but the akhar after some time his Khalif he changed again and they began to be good again and he went back and forth from toiv from good to lotov not good and then back many many times add until this kind of identity crisis got to such a point within the span of one day he was exchanging from the side of good to the side of not good and then back again becoming good and having holy desires and wanting to connect himself to elevation and then back again getting dragged down into the dark pockets of his humanity and he says it was an astounding shocking bewildering wondrous thing now this hapless poor individual who was going through this roller coaster of spirituality he was more confused about what he was going through than anybody else and he couldn't understand what was happening to him that sometimes in all earnestness he just wanted kidusha he just wanted Holiness he just wanted to live a life of goodness and kindness and O pamloite and then very quickly some other impulse took over and he didn't know what to do the ye shave at and he settled himself he thought about what to do and he decided to go and seek a

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  1. 0:30the first story is a story about an individual who changed this person started off good…
  2. 2:37professional opinion an evaluation he went to a certain to a certain wise man and he…
  3. 5:12but it ends with three dots that suggests like we mentioned that this story is really…
  4. 7:15Find meaning in them that's going to be unique to each and every Consciousness that has…
  5. 9:47side of the teacher or the side of the student and that relationship is just not…
  6. 12:18filo relates to the unconditional bond that we have with on the level of Av no…
  7. 14:21the Torah presents information that we need to process that we need to study that we…
  8. 16:57truth of my life with all of my life with the Kaleidoscope of the good moments…
  9. 19:03I want to live I want to continue I want to find the strength to carry…
  10. 21:35and continues we need to make kiddish Lavana our lives are holy our stories Are Holy…

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  • Chizuk — 24 min, by Rabbi Yaakov Klein
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