Living With Emunah (Part 201): Submit and Surrender

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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.

to nullify ourselves to absorb ourselves into god not to neglect ourselves to the point of neglect not harm not to allow others to stomp on us but it means to not think that we're the center of the universe the world doesn't revolve around us god is the center of the universe god is the source of the universe and therefore our lives are dedicated and devoted to his service included in his service is taking care of ourselves god wants us to have pleasure to have joy to have meaning to have happiness to have purpose it's not that hashem doesn't want us to feel and to experience all of that but we experience all of that in the context of serving him and living a life of service to him based on what he wants for us so there are four says richard meyer there are four madregos of bittel there are four levels of what it means to nullify ourselves and we began so far with the first two the first was bittel of kabbalah's old the first was the madriga to recognize there's an omnipotent infinite creator of the universe he's all-knowing he's all-powerful and we submit we surrender to him so i have an existence independent of him there's me there's i and then there's him there's god i have an awareness that between the two of us he's in charge that i work for him he doesn't work for me that's the first level of bitter of submission and surrender in the context of kabbalah soul that i accept the yoke of heaven i recognize that i submit to him that i work for him he doesn't work for me that's intellectual it's rational i have

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