Chutzpa, Good or Not: The Gate of Audacity

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Lazer Brody’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

in the night [Music] enough from you my Lord and it's all good Lord [Music] hashem's Loving Grace we're about to learn the fourth chapter of the ways of the righteous this is the Gate of audacity Hebrews called and it's a very small chapter but a very important chapter and we see especially this week how every single character trait has a positive side a negative side and we explain that the reasons that every positive every character trait has a positive side a negative side is because the way that the almighty created the world in other words everything in the world has to be a perfect balance of Good and Evil because if the almighty doesn't maintain that perfect balance of Good and Evil then a person might be a little coerced to do good if a person is coerced to do good he doesn't deserve uh punishment and if there's a evil wins out and there's not made perfect balance maintain then that person may be course to do evil so if there's coercion then he or she doesn't deserve any punishment so we see how every single character trait we can do it for use it utilize it for the good and for the opposite so audacity is no difference could we start off and read this we get five here on the Hebrew or the English translation what effort and uh what is the Hebrew says audacity is on the most part audacity is usually not very good it's not a desirable character trait and it's the opposite of Shame what we learned this week the good type of shame that we said you have no shame we called it reticence but it's really a shame it's the good type of shame but that's the opposite we

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1. 0:00in the night [Music] enough from you my Lord and it's all good Lord [Music] hashem's…
2. 4:48like last week's you have no shame no the audacious person has no shame he's not…
3. 9:43nasty expression an American idiom it says I've got no use for that person that is…
4. 15:02hate that person we hate the person's actions we hate evil not at perceptions okay so…
5. 19:58mishnah the chapter five it says that the audacious person a beeline right two Purgatory they're…
6. 25:06it's gonna be a crooked it's gonna have a lot of obstacles on the way so…
7. 29:47lost my temper today but I'm not so audacious audacious to say to you heavenly father…
8. 34:42been in the backyard waiting a little far away from the the living room window but…
9. 40:01okay so now he gives us four types of this holy audacity the author says that…
10. 44:54person person with boldness person with Brazen and dilemma it's nice it's wonderful no you gotta…

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