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

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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.

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 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 borrow the bare minimum matzah is flour and water mixed it produces matzah matzah is the bore the creator one feels

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1. 1:06want to finish that theme and if you're listening to the series it's not pesach time…
2. 3:45focusing on emunah it's not about my initiative it's not about my effort it's not about…
3. 6:31now that i have planted i've engreened i have seated within myself that there is a…
4. 9:10the created all week long sorry all year long even though we eat comments with us…
5. 12:23let's all think about what we're going to do we're not just looking for the muhammads…
6. 15:01i'm topping out i'm out of here you're on your own good luck god bless let…
7. 17:43does everybody take a nap so they're gonna be well rested for tonight the guest did…
8. 20:50and realize i'm not in charge i'm not in control there's a plan there's a reason…
9. 23:26couple hours before the wedding began makeup is being done not for me and the hall…
10. 26:00and fall in line to maybe zacchaeus and that we darwin and beer hammets going to…

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