Practical Spirituality - Mastering Free Will

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

e e e hey where are we going this weekend as opposed to where she would want to go she's like where are you taking me and then you throw her on your horse and ride off into the sunset and she's just like could never be more attracted to you as a husband meaning what doesn't she want to doesn't she have something to say about where you're going for the weekend trip well of course she would probably have something to say but it would ruin the trip for her she wouldn't have the same attraction she wouldn't have the same Romance of not knowing where everything's going because you you as a man keep creating an element of surprise and and it just makes her nuts like meaning excit nuts excited the whole time and that could we married 30 years and used this used this power as a man anyway but this is not our topic so I want all you guys and if you're listening you're a female choose to be your gender okay did you guys choose to come to Jerusalem yeah did you choose to be there today or did you just wake up here choose it right now all of us all of us and I and I I live here here like fulltime like choose it you live here fulltime choose it are you're not living here where you been living oh sorry but you live in Israel yeah choose it uh the outfit you're wearing today you chosen in a store from the looks of most of you you wore this when you slept last night but but um did uh I got anyway choose it choose it okay everyone close your eyes for a second get in your body and choose it feel your body you know just feel it whatever it is right now your weight musculature choose

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2. 8:18it open your eyes now let's just say you should be a little thinner a little…
3. 11:34is momentum what happens is we get into momentum of past choices and we and we…
4. 14:54digesting while you're sleeping you wouldn't sleep you'd be busy digesting so go the food just…
5. 18:48because if you say it's yucky then you lose your reward for not eating if you're…
6. 22:05[Music] easy the tips would be not to reevaluate that that's your inner Instinct and stay…
7. 25:21if he would say Rabbi I'm really like interested in ABC here but my head says…
8. 29:05so the body would like the burrito the soul probably doesn't care that much about burritos…
9. 32:26your ultimate purpose here which is spiritual you're here for a spiritual purpose so if your…
10. 35:35see it all you're not looking at anything and now look around the room a bit…

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