Ten Minutes of Meaning (Part 99): Arrogance Blinds and Distorts - 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.

friends honey and lenny grunstin in the memory of hani's father mr aaron tambor should have an aliyah we have been making our way through the messiest asharam and we've been trying to conquer these character traits these attributes one by one to grow in these ways first the heroes to live a life of mindfulness conscientiousness caution to think about what we say and what we do how will it be received what impact will it have what will the consequence be not just to act from the god the animal the animal acts on instinct and impulse the human being the human being what makes us a unique selling elokim is our capacity to be in control to be disciplined to be dignified to be thoughtful in all that we do and then we move to resources alacrity zeal to move with enthusiasm and with energy and then nikias one by one we've been going through different attributes and qualities that we want to purge not even be tempted by not even be drawn to not even have an appetite for and we spent the last couple of weeks been talking about the media the character trait of guyva of arrogance and he's described of arrogance and he's described different types of arrogant people the overtly in-your-face loudmouth narcissistic egomaniac arrogant person there's the quiet there's the you know i'm so smart and i'm so good and i'm so much better than anyone i don't even need to say anything there's a person who's arrogant about how humble they are there are no shortage of ways that a person could display that sense of arrogance but what they all have in common is the person who feels that whatever gifts or talents they have they're permanent they're not on loan from hashem

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2. 1:34of arrogance and he's described different types of arrogant people the overtly in-your-face loudmouth narcissistic egomaniac…
3. 3:05so the person whose humility is driven by arrogance like the ember in the cold that…
4. 4:38arrogant person who doesn't demand attention and doesn't demand honor and doesn't demand power they're able…
5. 6:10more accomplished i got a better score i make more money so who has anything to…
6. 7:42the smartest person in the room the one who learns from everybody else that's the smartest…
7. 8:42that takes away the hearts of the wise even the students whose training is still incomplete…
8. 10:12the person who's pontificating who's shooting from the hip who's speaking from the boy this is…
9. 11:43webmd and there's my doctor with 30 years experience and we're equal with our opinion it's…
10. 13:18is and because true humility is so difficult and true humility is not to think of…

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