Living With Emunah (Part 194): Checking Our Ego

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The opening of this shiur, in Living with Emunah - Rabbi Efrem Goldberg’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

lives i want to move over really backwards in the safer to an earlier chapter that he has on the concept of mahusa the notion of bittle the notion of trying to nullify our sense of self trying to think of ourselves less not think less of ourselves but think of ourselves less bitter is to nullify the ego you know ego it has been said that ego is an acronym for edging god out the more that we express the more that we emphasize our ego the more that we satisfy and we pursue our ego the more we feed and nourish our ego we edge god out there isn't enough room both for us and the ribonus alone for us and the almighty are we serving him are we expecting him to serve us are we meeting his needs or are we demanding that he meet ours are we interpreting the world according to his infinite omnipotent view or are we asking him to conform with our finite limited view of the world ego when our ego gets in the way we edge god out ego leads to arrogance and envy and anxiety ego leads to all these uh terrible qualities whereas a life of a munna a life of faith a life of belief in god leads to calm and tranquility satisfaction it leads to a life of happiness and so raviche meyer introduces us to the concept the importance the emphasis on bitter on that quality on that capacity that doesn't mean to erase or neglect who we are what we're meant to do in this world

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