Rabbi Yirmiyahu Ullman - Orchot Tzaddikim: Humility - Part 1

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we finished the first chapter on uh arrogance guyva i think we had three or four sessions this is the first session of the chapter on another as i mentioned the book kind of proceeds in pairs of attributes which are opposites in this case arrogance and then another hemitayva now he says that another humility is a good attribute as opposed to guyva which is a bad attribute however even within gaiva as a bad attribute we also found that there are positive ways of expressing it so i think it's pretty fair to assume that even though he starts off by saying that anova is a good attribute it's likely that he'll present us with ways in which even anova which is generally a good attribute might sometimes be bad but um in general then another of course is considered to be a good attribute and it's the opposite of guyva arrogance um somebody who has this attribute of another of humility for heishev nafsho mikama mineros he's already saved his soul from many different types of evils somebody who has arrived at this very honorable state of humility meaning humility of course is something very low but as low as it is that's how commendable it is just like he said as as haughty as a person gets that's how despicable it is somebody who is humble he's fulfilling a mitzvah just by being humble um and he receives reward according to the degree of humility because humility is actually the source of service why an american person is not going to do anything that he doesn't want to do he's

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1. 0:14we finished the first chapter on uh arrogance guyva i think we had three or four…
2. 2:51the servitude of god and therefore a person who's already naturally humble will already be much…
3. 6:01and appease me that's the point not that god doesn't want sacrifices when there is a…
4. 8:41it all comes from hashem even if it appears that he's doing it he recognizes that…
5. 11:47boy and in the end of the day whatever importance i have i have to remember…
6. 14:31actually subjugate himself to those who are beneath him for example kagon the alvardov for example…
7. 17:36before the righteous who go in the straight paths of god so believe he should think…
8. 20:12great and that's somebody who subjugates himself before his students the foreign and explain to them…
9. 23:15i have learned become enlightened and this fits in with the talmudic teaching you'll probably bring…
10. 25:51but that of course is not the reason for him to do it though particularly when…

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