A lecture on the psychological structure of man from Torah Thinking.
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just to reorganize and summarize first we have the notion if you recall that is a concept called the self the eye the ego the person whatever you want to refer to it as but there's a concept called self now every individual has a will and in other words people want things they desire they wish certain things now the content of the will things now the content of the will meaning whatever you want is motivation you're motivated to do what you want what you desire so obviously the content of the will of the rotten is going to be your motivation and what I've been going into now is the idea and that what presents itself which what you are mark is what you feel going on all the time in your body is what's called different kinds of urges needs dark drives all different kinds of urges now in order to satisfy kinds of urges now in order to satisfy those urges they then become the object of what you want in other words the fact that you experience urges then your motive then of course to fulfill those urges so therefore your will or what you want is to fulfill those kind of urges that you experience now as opposed to the urges which you want to fulfill because you're experiencing them this is the intellect the instrument the intellect is the instrument used by the intellect is the instrument used by the individual to correctly perceive and understand reality truth by your mind you're able to understand perceive interpret reason I'm able to understand what is really true and this is the intellect but the idea is that we intellect in other words what you perceive to be true is in is at variance it's not compatible with your urges in other words if you perceive the truth
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- 18:39the beginning of whatever means millions of billions of years ago whatever they say there was…
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