Preparing for the Moment | Rabbi Avraham Elbaz

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

Don't let the moment define you, but rather you define the moment. Story is told about a rebbe that in the middle of his class ran frantically to the principal's office. He said, "Can I use your phone?" He said, "Sure." He called home. The principal, unbeknownst to the rebbe, was watching and he saw that the rebbe's face turned ashen gray. But then afterwards, he collected himself and went back into the classroom as if nothing happened. Later, the menahel met the rebbe and said, "What happened? I saw something was going on in the phone call." He says, "Yes, I just remembered in the middle of my class that my wife

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1. 0:06Don't let the moment define you, but rather you define the moment. Story is told about…
2. 0:37in the middle of my class that my wife was Pesach cleaning. And I told my…
3. 1:08myself that if there is an assayon that I have to overcome, whether it's anger, whether…
4. 1:40higher. Because he did not succumb to temptation, that moment actually took advantage of and gave…

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