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The World Was Created for You - Rabbi Avraham Willig

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Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky

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Today we're going to learn about selfimage. That is uh the topic of discussion and it's a it's a power topic because I don't know about you but every day I got to look in the mirror when I wake up in the morning and what am I looking at exactly? You know who am I? How do I feel about myself? How do you feel about yourself? You don't have the feel about yourself? You don't have the answer. How do you feel about yourself? And what does Judaism have to say about that? What does Torah Judaism have to say about self-esteem, have to say about self-image? So, the place we're going to begin today is a segment in the Talmud, right? A little taste of Talmud here. Okay. Um, a little taste of Talmud. You can pass these back. Uh, the The the section that we're going to be looking at is a section in thank you in looking at is a section in thank you in actually in the in a Mishna in Sanra the Sanhedrin page 37A this is a primary text okay before we open the Bibles here a primary text the primary text of the of the uh of the Talmud it's called the Mishna and there the the garra deals with the Mishna deals with Why is it that God created

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  1. 0:00Today we're going to learn about selfimage. That is uh the topic of discussion and it's
  2. 4:37millions of birds. You get it? Everything God created. This one creature. It was one creation
  3. 9:12Wow. Proof. Here it is. God created a whole world for one person. Right. Okay. Presentation
  4. 13:50God. Okay. All this is interesting. Now we get to the bottom line. And this is
  5. 18:31It's not accidental. It's by design. It's actually by design. And why did God do that?
  6. 23:20rabbi. I need to deliver the truth. You deserve to know the truth. The truth is
  7. 27:53heck of a lot of silver. A lot of money, right? You agree? Okay. Here. Answer
  8. 32:28wouldn't do things that like are kind of embarrassing but like we do them anyway because
  9. 37:09godliness in us. That's why God says, That's why God says in the Torah again and
  10. 41:47are you like a demon? What? You're Who exactly are you? You're a human being. You're

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