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Does Judaism Believe in Self-Love? How Do I Become a Happy Person?

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Rabbi YY Jacobson

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but in the real tradition of judaism it has no real place not this one the murray 0-1 no problem in real old in real judaism it has no place the focus is yeah i mean if you hate yourself it's not a good idea probably but very often we know you may have even learnt that self-love is a contradiction to the love of others and what's this whole idea of self-love it seems selfish it seems selfish maybe narcissistic self-oriented self-contained the focus is on me and my needs but i'm ashley of the rebels i'm here oh very good but you can go down a little bit mr so we can see also the bottom okay very good so this is part of what going to be addressing today and uh we're going to begin with a mimer of the altareba the balhatanya of course this is from a safer called as you could see in the document here on the screen thank you for posting the document ma mori admir there's a set of memoriam of the altitude one of them here i'll show you one of them is called my mario admiral hazak and you see akitsara why hatsarim because in the maimarum of the altar there were different stages in the there were different stages in the earlier years he gave very brief tyrus his teachings were very brief concise fiery passionate as the years developed the memorial began to develop as well much more elaboration much more length chabad lexicon it's known as fire peterborough noc-peterborough pre-petersburg and post-petersburg which means pre-the events of utas kislov tough non-test 1798 and post yutesquez left the whole

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