Battling Negative Thoughts and External Pressures | Parshat Vayetze

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

Yep. This week's para. Who wrote this week's para? >> God. >> God wrote all of them. >> It's unbelievable. So therefore, there must be some divine messages in this week's para because it was written by the infinite divine creator of the universe. So Jacob left Beesva and he went to Kana. So he left this very very holy place and he went to a very very very unholy place. And that's going to be part of your journey boys. You're going to be in yeshiva and it's a very very holy place. It's a time where you where you're surrounded by holy individuals. No one's speaking lash and har. No one's saying anything not nice. There's no pictures of women half naked on the walls here. uh if you actually started speaking about something not great, I think about something not great, I think people would not appreciate. You're basically in a very very holy bubble. But it's a bubble and you're going to have to leave the bubble one day. And so you have to learn how to to take the holiness and the consciousness and the joy and the connection that you have in this holy bubble and bring it into the world. And that's much holier in a way. We've been learning about Shabas a lot in my essentials classes. And Shabas is the holiest day of the week. But Sunday, is Sunday less holy week. But Sunday, is Sunday less holy than Shabas? No. This is how it goes. Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. On Wednesday, you get something called a nephesh, an extra nephesh. On Thursday, you get a ruer, an extra ru, a higher part of yourself. On yamishi, you get an a

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2. 3:06gets covered up a bit. Hashem is less revealed in the world, but it's still there.…
3. 6:49you can eat and drugs and women and money and jobs and cars. It's all that.…
4. 10:22look after you. Once you go back out to the world, then you're in trouble. So,…
5. 13:28little bit deeper because some of the stories especially on the surface level they they're a…
6. 17:05letting come into your consciousness. Your society is giving you your values basically or what you're…
7. 20:40necessarily want to be in that environment. So, I used to say to my friends, look,…
8. 23:46children are different but in general for friends and people who you can choose then it's…
9. 27:23until suddenly what percentage of your thoughts would you say are you actually in control of…
10. 30:57brainwashing her since you were born this kid so what she did was she identified the…

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