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R' Zecharia Wallerstein on 'Rationalizing' Simply AMAZING!!!

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Rabbi Zecharia Wallerstein

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hear about it without further Ado it is my honor and privilege to call upon the one and only Rabbi Zar Round of Applause [Applause] for Round of Applause please that's cute okay so tonight I want to talk cute okay so tonight I want to talk about a very important subject the subject actually is called rationalization what that means the English word rationalization means when we rationalize we don't need this when you take when you do something wrong and you rationalize it until not only isn't it something wrong but it becomes something right so there's a mishna inish inos and the mishna says mid there are four traits when it comes to a human being person has there four different kinds of traits what are they some people say mine is mine sound like a very normal person mine is mine and yours is yours pretty much how most of us live don't bother my stuff I won't bother your stuff right mine is mine yours is your stuff right mine is mine yours is yours says the mishna Z this is a regular average person you don't bother me I don't bother you mine is mine yours is yours but then the mission says but there are some rabbis that say that's it's not Aid is the s this is the trait of the s this is the trait of the sodomites the worst community that was ever on Earth that was so bad that Hashem had to destroy them and he destroyed them with sulfur and fire and salt so that never ever would anything ever grow again in sad anyone here who went to Israel who went to the Dead Sea knows that nothing grows in the Dead Sea

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