Parashas Shelach: What Messages Are You Sending Yourself?

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

Shalom. So children, we speak a lot about your slavery to the external world. When I say we, I mean me. I speak a lot about your slavery to the external world. In general, your the external world. In general, your happiness depends on the external world, i.e. getting your way. If I get what I want, then I'm happy and if I don't, I am not. And your sense of self depends on the external world. What do people think of me? If they say nice things, I feel good and if they say not nice things, I feel bad. So that's an immense slavery. And Judaism says really the external world is the whole external world, the whole of creation is an opportunity to become great. become great. Someone insulting you is an opportunity to become great. Someone praising you is an opportunity to become great. Getting the job you wanted is an opportunity for you to become great. Not getting the job you wanted, that's an opportunity for you to become great. Being healthy, that's an opportunity for you to become great. Being unhealthy, that's an opportunity for you to become great. Everything, the whole of life, what is life? Life is an opportunity for what is life? Life is an opportunity for you to become great. And you need to approach it like that. That's how you approach life. Like I get up in the morning and I say I'm going to go through 24 hours of opportunity to become great. What time you go to sleep and how long you sleep for, that's an opportunity for you to become great. What you look at on a screen and how much you look at a screen, that's an opportunity for you to become great. Everything I just see life as an opportunity for me to become great. So

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1. 0:01Shalom. So children, we speak a lot about your slavery to the external world. When I…
2. 3:06become great. That's how I translate challenge. A challenge is an opportunity to become great. So…
3. 6:10you don't get the job, but you become more resilient through that, then that's losing the…
4. 9:16work out what the right thing is, I'm going to do it. No matter how difficult…
5. 12:24dictate your reality. Maybe not your external reality but your experience of the external reality. So…
6. 15:26this. I can do this. I'm good. I'm intrinsically worthy. I'm strong. I can do this.…
7. 18:30their own problems and their own issues and what people think of them. And how do…
8. 21:33still in the world, but I'm just not so dragged down by it and defined by…
9. 24:45He made everyone be quiet. Where is this Russia? I read this amazing Russia this morning.…
10. 27:53that. But you need to make that space. So, Caleb came along and he made that…

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