W4L #185 - The one thing in life we can control! - Rabbi Chanan Gordon

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

[Music] is [Music] so i want to share with you something that was one of the most one of the biggest things that i've learned in my life you have to be rabbi dr abram to ask you to say this and he cited the midrash so to say this and he cited the midrash so obviously it was based on on uh on good sources and that's like this there's very few things in our life that we have control over we can't control the color of our eyes very little that we can do to control our iq we don't choose our parents we don't choose to be born in africa but there's one thing that we do have control over and that's in this week's passion partially gosh and that's like this we know that yakov was punished for responding to para in supposedly in for responding to para in supposedly in a negative way when he was asked about how many days and how many days there were in his life and he indicated that he had a very tough life so if you count it seems like 33 words but the truth is that's the 33 words weren't the response from yaakov we start counting at the beginning of the question from parallel so roberto said inciting the midriffs which is quoted in the dust as a canine that there's two ways to look at everything he could have said that you know it's been tough but look

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3. 1:04for responding to para in supposedly in a negative way when he was asked about how…
4. 1:35it's been tough but look i survived loving i survived asap yosef is alive you know…
5. 2:05face again the attitude that we have is ultimately up to us there's two lessons i…
6. 2:35and there's a notion that what your face is around you why should other people have…
7. 3:05the end of the day uh the way we see the world is up to us…
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