Rabbi Mordechai Kraft - How to Control the Anger Within Us

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Something very practical. Tonight's class is going to be a class on basically how to control the anger within us. So, I know this class isn't relevant to anybody here because none of you suffer from anger issues or get angry. But, I'm sure everybody has a friend, you know, or a wife or husband or someone they're dating who gets angry, you know, or brother or sister. you know, or brother or sister. So, the more we know, the more we'll be able to help somebody else. But, the reality is anger is one of the emotions that do possess the human being. And it has a lot to do with who we are, which we're going to discuss tonight. The fact that we're created but seldom on the key of the image of God means there's something about you and I that's very special. And somehow when that's trampled upon and we're made to feel this big, we react. So, we have to understand really what So, we have to understand really what anger does, what causes the reaction, and how we could stop it, prevent it. Because the reality is the more we understand that Hashem runs the world, the more we understand that everything that happens in this world is designed for us and is designed for a positive purpose. It's not always easy to see that, but that's really what our Judaism, our Torah, teaches us. In fact, the word for anger, you know, what's the word for anger? Who knows?

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1. 0:00Something very practical. Tonight's class is going to be a class on basically how to control…
2. 5:37Because anger is everything. If you have your anger under control, it means you have a…
3. 12:00Mikan Hillel, Mikan Hillel. Who here is called Hillel? Who here is called Hillel? Nisa'atef, Hillel…
4. 18:11Yeah, well, good. You know, what's the idea, right? He comes, he goes, he comes, he…
5. 24:15sure you eat something first. I remember when I used to come home from where I…
6. 30:27very little to achieve them. Very little. Very little. The mind was there. Baruch Hashem, yeah.…
7. 36:35You know? He's always looking to make his team look good. He's not out of his…
8. 43:14person is valuable. Our anger blinds our eyes to such an extent that we look at…
9. 49:24midwives. Now, what happens? The men waited a short while until Hillel had gone back to…
10. 55:28that are wrong, and the reality is that you have done things that are wrong. Cuz…

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