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Ten Minutes of Meaning (Part 108): Stop Thinking and Start Doing - Mesillas Yesharim

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Rabbi Efrem Goldberg

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good morning and beaucare tove to all welcome back to 10 minutes of meaning hold on just trying to get my recorder here to work there we go okay booker's up good morning to all welcome back to 10 minutes of meaning every wednesday morning we spend 10 minutes tapping into the mesilas asharam the great ramchair of ludsato gave us a framework of vocabulary a formula for how to live the best version of ourselves what are the character traits what are the uh what and those distractions how can we be present and vigilant how can we be thoughtful and mindful how could at the end of the day we say what a great day i said the things that were correct to say i made the right choices i was present in everything that i did niki is purging from ourselves moving over from the battleground to the conquered territory still needs to be protected and guarded but it's no longer a daily battle and grind and we're trying to get ourselves in a place where we're no longer grinding and battling daily not to use profanity and not to eat the wrong things in an unhealthy way and not to gossip and not to slander and not to get angry and not to feel arrogant and all the qualities that um has gone through and the last one he's left off with we've been analyzing is honor is envy not to pursue honor and to be envious of others who seem to have more than we do rabbis are rabbis who have instructed and guided us continuously in the way of truth umru the rabbi's teaching pierce and ethics

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  2. 2:05and not to eat the wrong things in an unhealthy way and not to gossip and…
  3. 3:36love the component of it of the work to do take the work seriously don't take…
  4. 4:36i used to hold and now they therefore rely on the community and they're taking stukka…
  5. 6:10honor is so fake and honor sabotages people's happiness and success when they have the honor…
  6. 7:13and therefore if there's a conflict in this world between what i want to do and…
  7. 8:45and the one who's clean it's worth his while to cleanse and purify himself from the…
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  9. 11:20and it totally consumes us and distracts us just do it already start eating right start…
  10. 12:21and we'll regain it much less effort than we imagined and this is something that true…

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