Gradual Growth Instead of Waiting for the Test

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

morning i had some people in my office over the last couple days and i showed them some videos you're watching videos in my office exciting we were watching you know everybody seemed like a famous actor will smith seemed like a famous actor will smith you know there's a big famous actor so we were watching will smith uh not his movies no sorry no we are watching will smith has a series of motivational videos motivating people because will smith he went through a lot of uh challenges in his life you know who challenges in his life you know who like like who everybody like everybody that's right difference is that will smith has learned from those challenges what's going on over there will smith has learned from those challenges and as he says learn from his mistakes he says when you fall don't fall backwards fall forwards at least when you're going to fall and you're going to fall go forward try to go forward so instead of people falling and they fall backwards they give up nope fall forwards that means you kind of learn from your mistakes and try to change everybody's going to make mistakes everybody's going to have challenges everybody's going to have all kinds of things in the life that are not fun it's going to be you know avraham avinu it's going to be you know avraham avinu we've got a whole bunch of tests that he goes through their challenges now why and i've discussed this many times what's the purpose of having challenges in your life what to grow now what does that mean you're gonna people grow for the challenges they fail they fail to get over it okay

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1. 0:04morning i had some people in my office over the last couple days and i showed…
2. 2:41they fail they fail to get over it okay there's there's more to it than just…
3. 5:13simple example person wants to be an accountant they go to accounting school and they cheat…
4. 7:45you didn't really do it you didn't really go over you don't really know it people…
5. 10:18because would said i will just do this and then i say let's do another three…
6. 12:50they've been around for a while they've gone through the share for many many years anyway…
7. 15:22means all your money so you work hard and you give your money to mitzvahs and…
8. 18:00went out to la basara to speak to darwin in the field so the so uh…
9. 20:36so um protects the blood and she see they see the blood so now he goes…
10. 23:10you're a dummy would you go i'm not a dumb you wouldn't even answer back you're…

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