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Ten Minutes of Meaning (Part 163): Are You a Good Friend to Hashem? - Mesillas Yesharim

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Rabbi Efrem Goldberg

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one and one the number one and one sign up both for the one minute a day of learning one dollar a day of stukka all in her merit please god we should hear good news she and all who are ill should have a speedy painless and complete refuse lima we're in the nineteenth chapter of merciless has been giving us the formula the secrets to life how to chart and journey ourselves towards a better version of ourselves to always live and believe our best is yet to come to constantly be on the path and the track of self-improvement to live with mindfulness and awareness alacrity and mindfulness and awareness alacrity and zeal to live aesthetically to not need the material things around us and all the other qualities we've been learning we've been learning about this what it means to be to be truly pious and righteous to be virtuous is not anything that we wear to be a huss it is about how we see ourselves who we are how we behave and how we feel in our relationship with hashem we've divided ava and yirah and the three are not from the three branches to come close to hashem and the last what we've been studying now is kinna the notion of zealousness now is kinna the notion of zealousness of zeal on behalf of hashem zappos we'll reread what we ended with last week zappos this is a critical and crucial message for our generation and in our time where our torah values and the almighty himself in some ways is under assault and the question asked of us every day as believing and faithful jews as those invested in an intimate relationship

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  1. 0:30one and one the number one and one sign up both for the one minute a…
  2. 1:30now is kinna the notion of zealousness of zeal on behalf of hashem zappos we'll reread…
  3. 2:31friend are you if you stand there passively and idly and you don't say anything and…
  4. 3:31there are people some with malice an intent to be wicked and others maybe even with…
  5. 4:33lives and lifestyles or value system or priorities are inconsistent and incongruous with what our torah…
  6. 5:34brother or sister your son or your daughter if they were trying to distort or misrepresent…
  7. 6:36you from they say boca maybe they start talking about the rabbi from boca not putting…
  8. 7:39are when he is distorted or misrepresented or outright violated the token what is that real…
  9. 8:42he said so you don't have to pay taxes i said why wouldn't i want to…
  10. 9:44created new definitions and new relationships and new who've adjusted and moved boundaries who've moved goalposts…

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