Once Upon a Soul #3: The Commoner Who Dreamt He Was King

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

a villager a person who lived in a small humble Village who one time had a vivid dream that he was actually a king Venezuela and he woke up with he thought it was true that he's a king and he went to the Yosh bikar and he sat down in the Village Square but you must snag at Smith and he was strutting around like a king wood chest puffed out trying to give off the impression to others that he was a king but there was only one problem because even though at least in his mind he was really certain that he was a king he began to wonder so where are all of my soldiers and where are all of my palaces the ayem is where are all of my servants and where are all of my treasure houses and he became extremely extremely bitter and extremely dejected and extremely depressed because he's been sitting there for for days and years past five so absolutely certain that he's a king but again painfully aware of the fact that he's not able to enjoy any of the luxuries that a king is make a tremendous mockery of him and laugh at him and taunt him but you I remember they would say to him how was your majesty it's so wonderful to see your majesty and they would make fun of him and they would all laughs until this individual went completely crazy it's a very very tragic story number two he went crazy so just with their capture to suggest a passable interpretation

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1. 0:30a villager a person who lived in a small humble Village who one time had a…
2. 1:01others that he was a king but there was only one problem because even though at…
3. 1:31and he became extremely extremely bitter and extremely dejected and extremely depressed because he's been sitting…
4. 2:05make a tremendous mockery of him and laugh at him and taunt him but you I…
5. 2:36it seems to me that all of us are a little bit Meshuggah like this that…
6. 3:38between our circumstances and our sense of entitlement that's what produces the mariris the bitterness because…
7. 4:09so then whatever we do have is appreciated and celebrated and valued and enjoyed and the…
8. 4:39things should be easy we expect that we should be able to overcome this yet Sahara…
9. 5:10he's privileged to be gifted with even though the quantity might not be that impressive but…
10. 5:40Hashem the my seika that we spoke about in the context of The Last Story to…

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