Ten Minutes of Meaning (Part 191): Humility in Action - 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.

of anavah. Towards the end of the safer, which is in itself very telling, that humility, practicing humility, and Ram Chal divides in two ways, b'machshavah, having a humble mentality, and b'ma'aseh, in action, in act, dictating the way we behave and interact with the world. And the fact that he's waited till the end, we're near the end of the safer, tells us just how daunting, how difficult it is to indeed live with a genuine humility. Not a fake humility, not a humble brag, but to in fact always have the mindfulness, the consciousness, and the awareness of how limited we are, how fleeting life life is, how more how mere mortal we are, and how much we will be future warm food. you know. You don't have to be a super genius. You don't have to have major analysis. You don't have to delve deeply in order to find our limitations, in order to find how fallible we are. Maybe the posture we put out to the world, the carefully curated image we put online or offline, that we show the world as if everything's great and we've got it together and all is flowing smoothly. But the reality is, we know how imperfect we are. We know what we struggle with. We know our failures. The smartest, the greatest genius, the most knowledgeable among us is an absolute gurnisht and nothing compared to earlier generations.

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1. 1:05of anavah. Towards the end of the safer, which is in itself very telling, that humility,…
2. 1:36and the awareness of how limited we are, how fleeting life life is, how more how…
3. 2:42And that's what we have to know and know in truth. And that's what we have…
4. 3:48things happen the way they do? And I demand to know. I want to understand." So…
5. 4:52habushah vashiflus zeh hapashut. The Ramchal is not telling us this to knock us down, to…
6. 5:57room and suck all the air out of the room. We don't demand honor. We don't…
7. 6:30people's disparagement, disrespect? Person is filled with arrogance and ego is unable to. They'll escalate a…
8. 7:35When you chase after honor, honor runs away from you. So, these are the four areas.…
9. 8:39attention, the center of the room, the smartest, the loudest in the room? B'diburo, let's start…
10. 9:40Malachi Divrei Chachamim b'Nachas Nishmein. The HaMelech in Koheles says, Divrei You're smart If you're smart,…

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