#16: Iggeres HaRamban (10 Minutes of Meaning) - Finding Humility, Happiness, and Holiness:

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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.

one of us, reminding us that we have the ability to regulate ourselves, that we do not have to give in or indulge anger or rage, and then sabotage and destroy the relationships of our life, but we have that capacity to regulate ourselves, tistanei tamid, that we can transform ourselves to always speak calmly and gently and nicely. And when we do, when we do, if we speak b'nachas, then we'll be spared from caas, from anger. And in lieu of anger, we'll be filled with humility, which is the greatest of all qualities that one can have. And when one is filled with humility, ki titein a lev chacham milei b'ein baasa, we look into ourselves and always wonder, where are we from? Lana salech, where are we going? Atarim avotaleiv achayav avak ki d'mosav, and we're filled with the humility of realizing how mere mortal and how fragile we are of the adam miyata asher din v'cheshbon, before whom we're going to have to give an accounting. Spoke about the GRA. We'll be accountable for the mistakes we made be accountable that we didn't use that energy, that time, those resources to do good things. And then he quotes a possuk, b'chasher tachshuv es kolela, when we think about all this, tir'ah mebaracha, we'll filled with awe from our Creator. When we're able to sublimate our ego, an ego edging got out, there's no room for Hashem if we're filled with ego. When we're able to sublimate our ego, then we'll be filled with awe. Now there's a lot of space, a lot of room to say, "Wow, Hashem's world is incredible, it's amazing." V'tishamei menachai, we won't want to miss the opportunities to draw close to him. With eilav tiyasmeiach b'chelkacha, and with these qualities we'll find happiness.

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1. 0:30one of us, reminding us that we have the ability to regulate ourselves, that we do…
2. 1:00when one is filled with humility, ki titein a lev chacham milei b'ein baasa, we look…
3. 2:01Who doesn't want happiness? Who doesn't want happiness? It's one of the rights that we have…
4. 3:03they're not happy. We're talking about just general mainstream happiness. We wait to feel happy. I'd…
5. 4:03That's what I need. I have everything I need and I can find happiness." So, on…
6. 5:04afraid and shivering and shaking and He said, "I'm sad. I forgot to make the eirev…
7. 6:38with joy, with happiness, with happiness. That is critical. And there's a lot to say. He…
8. 7:39teshuvah. The simcha s'libeinu likraus Hashem likraus Hashem v'rotzim anachnu l'hashiv nafsho. If a person gets…
9. 8:42happy. Always be calm. And then we'll be spared anger, and without anger we'll feel humility,…

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