The #5 Commandment of Dating: Be Your Higher Self - Rabbi Eli Deutsch

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Many people date as their best self and then marry as their worst self. Welcome back to the 10 Commandments of Dating. This is commandment number five. Thou shalt be your higher self and then live it. I was once invited to be part of a panel at a singles event. There was a Jerusalem dating coach, there was me, and there was the head of the psychology department at Bar-Ilan University. At one point, a young woman asked the question, "How should I present myself

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1. 0:00Many people date as their best self and then marry as their worst self. Welcome back…
2. 0:30on a date? Like, should I be my better self? Should I present my higher self?…
3. 1:00you really are." Now, personally, I was horrified by this as a number of people who…
4. 1:31Strive to actually be that person ongoing in your relationship with this person as well as…

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