Jewish Spirituality: Follow God and be a Giver

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

[Music] thank you one of the things I really enjoy about getting on an airplane especially in the states is that you can reach into the seat pocket in front of you and pull out this amazing magazine called the in-flight buying guide they're the most amazing things in there pair of monogrammed cufflinks for your pajamas a a set of GPS swimming goggles for swimming for swimming the English Channel a nose tweezer for your pet poodle now there's something really amazing that I saw once which is this thing which has got a bit of sponge on the end and a long twirly metal handle and you you insert this into your ketchup bottle and you twirl it around and you can extract the last microgram of tomato ketchup from the bottle I've never seen a magazine so full of things that I didn't need and I thought to myself what is this thing teaching me what is this magazine teaching me it's teaching me you're in need you need this and you need that and you didn't even read you didn't realize you had these needs you know we live in a world where we have solutions to problems that we didn't even know we had the problem and I thought what's what's the message of this magazine now when a person defines himself by his needs essentially he puts himself in the prey he's prey to whatever and advertising wants to tell him because essentially you can carry on and on and on you know you have this need and you need this and you need and this and this RAV dasla Rabbi desler of elio destler

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1. 0:04[Music] thank you one of the things I really enjoy about getting on an airplane especially…
2. 3:44about a weekend it didn't do it so why do you say to yourself well I…
3. 8:03hatred comes from a mistaken idea about the world the view of the world baseless hatred…
4. 12:19used to walk home from golders Green Tube Station and I was like I'm sure you've…
5. 16:42as we said the nature the natural position of a person is to think I am…
6. 21:00there so the Bali Musa understand that it must have been that even the first drop…
7. 24:42not going to tell you who he is but if you walk around and I think…
8. 29:02maybe that other person doesn't have what you have or I think you can probably think…
9. 33:15the telephone has its own etiquette which people don't even think about if you think about…
10. 37:26unfurled it in the conference room on the table now you can imagine the feeling of…

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