The Red Dress Trap: A Powerful Explanation of Self-Control

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

[music] We're going back to learning Tom Dora. Didn't learn it for a very long while. Last we left, we started chapter 6 and we went through I think very very little. So we're going to kind of do the chapter again and uh whatever we learn there we'll just repeat we'll recap we'll go over it again but since it was such a long time and we left in the middle I think better to start the chapter again the chapter is very short so it's not so not going to take us long and we are in the sixth chapter which is talking about how should a person conduct his behavior based on the mid that is called ga the last few classes we went through and now we're going to see what the tow tells us about the which many people think is a bad thing is not a bad thing so he goes as follows How can you make yourself used to that you operate based on this? And when it says means that means a habit that not that the Torah should be in any type of a way a habit, but when something is a habit, you do it much easier, faster, better, more efficient because you kind of do it like a machine. So he says how do you get yourself used to that it's like a habit to you that you apply this attribute of now that Hashem does it that I know how do I do it and why would I do it and more important when should I do it so he's asking how would you make yourself used to that and he answers

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3. 13:19weak and they don't know how to fight their desires. Fact. And it doesn't mean that…
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7. 39:14go now and sit and learn for 3 hours quietly throw the phone out know this…
8. 45:41you don't get welcomed and hugs and come all the opposition starts challenges and of course…
9. 52:15powerful what does it do? It goes and and prosecute against you. He stole. He lied.…
10. 58:50and the class was about guarding your eyes and of course the whole class was talking…

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