Rabbi Avraham Gaon Daily Mussar The Courage to Become You 2013 01 29

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welcome to our daily Moussa well share with you something recently I came across a case where it was a couple that were married for a few years over ten years I was out on the husband which was a very promising professional with really a promising future decided that really a promising future decided that his wife and children are an obstacle in his career and as such he decided to simply cut them loose and it was wondering I was wondering what exactly goes into ahead of a person like that that one day you know views himself views his wife and children as an obstacle in his career and I don't obstacle in his career and I don't realize if you pay attention to people around you you hear this one wants to be CEO the other one a CFO CNN yeah it wants to be what everybody wants to be something this one wants to be a businessman he wants to be a doctor he wants to be a singer has to be a musician he wants to everybody wants to be some thing I yet hear you to hear a be some thing I yet hear you to hear a person says I really want to be a good father what would you like to be I want to be a good husband even more rare than that you never hear persons I really want to be myself you always want to be something else yourself you don't want to be and I'm really serious did you ever hear somebody saying you know my my goal in life is really to be

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1. 0:00welcome to our daily Moussa well share with you something recently I came across a case…
2. 0:30really a promising future decided that his wife and children are an obstacle in his career…
3. 1:00obstacle in his career and I don't realize if you pay attention to people around you…
4. 1:34be some thing I yet hear you to hear a person says I really want to…
5. 2:34you also never want to be yourself I or I don't want to be the best…
6. 3:05title and and by the approval of societal norms rather than what you really want to…
7. 3:37of the decoration what really he was saying is I am nothing I am a nothing…
8. 4:40married so he got them and ieaves established himself so goodbye good luck for a bowtie…
9. 5:11to what the Torah defines us to be shouldn't even be in a looking vadym you…
10. 5:41live his his dreams who was a good father he says it doesn't make a difference…

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