Rabbi Dr. David Gottlieb - The Validity of Fulfilling Psychological Needs

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you the subject I would like to discuss with you is psychological needs I think there is a natural prejudice against taking psychological needs as seriously as they need to be if a person is working at something he gets a headache serious headache he needs some kind of painkiller if there's none in the house go out bu let's say think of an hour to get the painkiller and and take it and the headache to subside very few people feel guilty I lost an hour why didn't I just tough it out after all prizes are not given to the weak to I self-indulgent just work in spite of the headache we're very for giving of ourselves when we have a clear psycholog a clear physical need but if the material I'm working on is boring and it's hard to focus and I know that an hour's turn in the park would restore I won't say enthusiasm but let's say tolerance for the topic or the subject there we are inclined to be very self-punishing no just get a grip on yourself and push it through make it work anyway I did a little search in terms of T sources to find is there any such distinction between physical needs and psychological needs and I was not able to find any such distinction and not only that but I did come up with some pretty clear sources that treat them on a par Mor suus is talking about the responsibilities of Charity OFA you must give to a poor

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