Pre-Yom Kippur 2022 Seminar

What’s said in this shiur

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

foreign [Music] told me that in his first year in Yeshiva turned up on Roshana Yom Kippur with five pages of kabbalah's five pages of New Year resolution so to speak the second year he had three pages the second the third year he had one page and the fourth year as they say and then there were none why is it that every Russian every Yom Kippur we start off with the greatest of intentions sincere intentions to really improve and yet most of us and I include myself for sure find it very difficult to see any even minimal change in our behavior in our performance of Mitzvahs in our Irish from one year to the next I think there are a few answers to this one of them is that psychology recognizes something called cognitive dissonance is the disparity between our actions and our intentions our beliefs are principles now cognitive dissonance says that a person seeks congruity since seeks harmony between what he does and what he thinks and when there's a disparity between the two when there's a gap so he wants to alter one or the other now it's true one could alter one's actions to fit one's principles one's beliefs or one could modify one's beliefs one's principles to fit one's actions in truth the second of those two options is much easier and therefore a person is more likely to bend the rules so to speak now Cottage Grove is a nicer cottageboro who hashem's a nice God he's not going to be too tough with me and it really is not so important I mean let's

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2. 4:23anywhere so he'd drive up to the curb where there was a red and white line…
3. 9:03children is dependent on my darling today and he said he went back inside and he…
4. 13:43clean there's another reason because if you never took your car to a car wash the…
5. 18:43things he does for us because he loves us and we feel that love he's Maya…
6. 23:18her and she was frankly so disgusted at his story that she refused to even be…
7. 27:37because it's sometimes too painful to think about it but there may come a time in…
8. 32:29that is the taina of the rich guy and the poor person could say it was…
9. 37:18those challenges you see because that which I can do in a positive way becomes that…
10. 42:16bill we blow the chauffeur not on Yom Kippur because you're not allowed to blow an…

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