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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.

and finals having a focus and discipline and by Stash and Janice Jacobs in memory of Stash's father wasite was yesterday and aliyah we are finishing up the sixth per chapter 6 of the holy seer and the has introduced us to the idea that unlike in where we have three realms where we have something that's a mitzvah it's noble It's righteous. It's virtuous. Or something which is forbidden. You're not allowed to do it. And there's that which fits in neither category. Whether you're going to make a coffee this morning, is that a mitzvah davka? Is it an iser? Certainly not. It's a rash. It's elective. Says the balata. That's not the way to view the world. The truth is there's only two sides. There's ego and elocus. Everything we do, every decision we make, every thought we have, every speech that we utter, we are either expressing our ego. We're indulging the ego. And the ego comes from the sitra, the other side, the animal in us, or we're expressing a locus or we're demonstrating, we're expressing, we're manifesting the godliness in us. Every social media post we put up, every conversation that we start, every everything that we do, it either comes from ego or elocus. And the filter, the way to examine our whole life is to ask ourselves what's driving, what's motivating, why am I doing this thing? Is it ego or is it elocus? There is no third realm. There is no rashus. And the has been developing this idea all

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