Ten Minutes of Meaning (Part 100): Anger is Idolatry - Mesillas Yesharim

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

the right response is this the right thing to say how will this be appreciated received how will this land is this the right act what will the repercussions what will the consequences be it's enormously high level it's the first step because before we can talk about how to live in any other meaningful way we have to cultivate within ourselves the ability to be present in everything that we're doing so that we don't do things that we will regret number two we talked about zurichus alacrity zeal enthusiasm don't be lazy and lethargic don't procrastinate don't do a half-baked job don't only give half-baked job don't only give a piece of yourself and don't be minimalistic in life but rather zareesus alacrity enthusiasm go pursue it go make it happen go and get it done and then we've moved over to the media of nikias which we've been spending a long time on i heard a rabbi a sermon from rosh hashanah yesterday somebody forwarded me and he characterized in his sermon i really think in a way that captures what was trying to communicate about the media of nikhias a really really beautiful way the medium a really really beautiful way the medium says again this is really the teaching of repentance of the talmud who taught that nikias means to purge from ourselves every day we're battling every day we're struggling every day we're confronting the imperfections within ourselves the deficiencies the challenges the temptations the distractions the appetites the media of nichias is how can we how can we purge how can we eliminate how can we conquer in such a way that it's no longer part of the daily

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1. 1:02the right response is this the right thing to say how will this be appreciated received…
2. 2:02a really really beautiful way the medium says again this is really the teaching of repentance…
3. 3:03in a war and a battle and then there's conquered territory conquered territory means i won…
4. 4:04into the column of the conquered territory into the column of that which again we continue…
5. 5:36they didn't comply we wanted the world we wanted nature we wanted we wanted uh traffic…
6. 6:37do is you say i'm taking you to court you owe me compensation but i'm never…
7. 7:37anger it should be a calculated strategic intellectual response which causes us to become activists to…
8. 9:10we we don't get the outcome that we wanted in a business negotiation or in a…
9. 10:11their own marriage all out of anger now what we'll talk about next week what continues…
10. 11:14what i need to do and you know what leave the judging to god in these…

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