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Ten Minutes of Meaning (Part 86): Conscientious Speech - Mesillas Yesharim

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Rabbi Efrem Goldberg

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good morning bokuto great to be back together again for a few minutes as we are every Wednesday morning to try to become the best version of ourselves in ten minutes or less quite an ambitious goal but really it's actually reflective of the Jewish Way which is growth as in increments and spurts ten minutes at a time certainly you can learn and work on yourself much longer than that but even if you can't if you do it in increments and small bite-sized pieces you put it together and you wake up one day and find you're a changed person you're not find you're a changed person you're not gonna lose 20 pounds in one day and you might even be able to measure daily how much you're losing but if you put in the time and the work every day to exercise you write you'll weigh yourself you measure yourself later and see that you've changed the same is true spiritually metaphysically with our own personal growth as well and that's why I love spending ten minutes together every Wednesday morning working on ourselves and employing the RAM Klaus brilliant formula based on her husband Yair based on our great rabbis of the Gemara about how to grow how to grow beginning with the heroes living life of

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  2. 1:35chapter 11 and we are going through the details of the media of Nikias we are…
  3. 3:07we may have people have motivations you're giving a friend business advice or shellac advice or…
  4. 4:38think about exclusively the other unless what the other person is scheming or planning in fact…
  5. 5:40the sense that we're giving people information and information is power and we're giving unvetted information…
  6. 7:10which is implied or implicitly Shannara sometimes we make a terrible mistake what's an example the…
  7. 8:42cleanliness and purity if you want to be the best version of yourself the best people…
  8. 9:43speak about ideas do you speak about things or do you speak about people we interact…
  9. 11:15a sad joke a Jewish secret is something that you tell people one by one and…
  10. 12:46very very complicated area and it's bringing out hatred and judgment of people towards others simply…

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