Living With Emunah (Part 187): Liberate Yourself By Not Focusing on Yourself

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

very week in which pesach will shortly begin i want to finish that theme and if you're listening to the series it's not pesach time still worth listening don't turn it off because the message the ideas nevertheless will resonate all year round the lesson of muhammad's mata ultimately lesson of ammuna the reminder that we don't exist independently or in isolation that we are the creation we are the basma or ben melo we are the prince and princesses the children of hashem his involvement is role in our life so we spoke last week trying to understand is an anomaly we have in the world of jewish law we have foods that are prohibited we have foods that are considered to contaminate the soul they're off limits they're also they're forbidden on the other hand we have foods which are permissible they're kosher they're eligible you can eat them no problem comets is this bizarre anomaly that falls somewhere in between where 51 weeks of the year no problem delicious enjoy sometimes and so on and then you have one week of the year the week of which becomes arch enemy number one is this enormous villain so which is it is a villain islam it's a hero and we discussed last week morgenstern developed the notion of the bore in the niv there is the creator and the created and the idea that matzo start with matzah matzah doesn't have spices doesn't have salt isn't introduced to yeast matza is not manipulated and therefore matzo represents just

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1. 1:03very week in which pesach will shortly begin i want to finish that theme and if…
2. 3:38so matzah represents so for one week a year back to eating the boray we go…
3. 6:52then afshar laxor i'm ready to go back to now go enter a place not only…
4. 9:23not independent not separate or apart not in competition but as an agent and as an…
5. 12:23let's all think about what we're going to do we're not just looking for the muhammads…
6. 14:56power you think that you can compete in taking up space with me no competition hashem…
7. 18:01at the core at the root of pressure is the mistaken notion that i must do…
8. 20:34they're cool it just means that you're lacking in a muna you're lacking in faith it…
9. 23:37and the whole hall has power and you know what i did i was sitting in…
10. 26:10to be a new person i want to be born again clean lucky i want to…

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