Parshat Tazria-Humans, Animals and Holy Self-Esteem

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The opening of this shiur, in BRI Breslov: The Breslov Research Institute’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

in this week's parsha parsha tatsuriya we learn the laws pertaining to human beings uh such as the laws of birth and impurity and purity and so on in last week's parsha parshat shamini we learn the laws pertaining to animals this progression mirrors the progression of creation all of nature and the animals were created first and humankind was created last this reflects as the sages two important messages to each of us the first message is everything was created before us to serve us we're important human beings are potentially the pinnacle of creation but also we were created last after everything even a tiny flea was created before us this concept this battle between two points of views comes together in rebbi nachman's teachings and we can find it in many of his lessons for example in azamra rebbi nachman teaches us to look for the good in others and ourselves when we focus on the good we are

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1. 0:02in this week's parsha parsha tatsuriya we learn the laws pertaining to human beings uh such…
2. 0:34were created first and humankind was created last this reflects as the sages two important messages…
3. 1:06after everything even a tiny flea was created before us this concept this battle between two…
4. 1:38focusing on our purpose in creation and when we don't let the bad cloud our vision…
5. 2:08speech and through our relationship with hashem on our shortcomings of course we do want to…
6. 2:39we should pray with humility and rely on hashem's loving kindness because hashem has a treasury…
7. 3:10creation and in truth throughout our lives sometimes sadly we don't we act as less than…
8. 3:42through this we can develop wholly whole self-esteem we can live life with meaning and with…

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