How Does One Build Self Esteem?

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Hi, this is David Eliavsky with our question and answer series where in a few moments, few minutes, sometimes an hour or two, I answer short questions that I can for our listeners. And our good friend, my personal friend, friend of the show, Yossi Mel writes, "How does one fix or build self-esteem according to the Torah?" This is so, so important. Yeah, there is a Gemara in a few different places that says the same thing. thing. A person is mechuyav, obligated to say, "Bishvili nivra ha'olam." The entire universe was created for me. I am the most important person in the universe. Now, come on. When I was a kid, I was, you know, already bar mitzvah, and in America, there was Reb Moshe Feinstein, Reb Yaakov Kamenetsky, Reb Ruderman, and Reb Hutner, Ruderman, and Reb Hutner, uh Reb Gifter, Reb Leibowitz, from Chofetz Chaim, you know, all these gedolei Torah, I'm the most important person? Yes. Because of a very deep philosophical work, uh that was uh written by Dr. Seuss called Horton Hears a Who. And there's this little place called Whoville, and only Horton can hear it cuz he has such good hearing. And he tells them you have to make enough noise so everyone hears you or they're going to destroy Whotown cuz it's on a little dandelion, they're

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1. 0:00Hi, this is David Eliavsky with our question and answer series where in a few moments,…
2. 0:30thing. A person is mechuyav, obligated to say, "Bishvili nivra ha'olam." The entire universe was created…
3. 1:01Ruderman, and Reb Hutner, uh Reb Gifter, Reb Leibowitz, from Chofetz Chaim, you know, all these…
4. 1:32it's on a little dandelion, they're going to throw it in the fire. And everyone's making…
5. 2:03You know, I live in New York, you know, it's Democrat, they're always going to go…
6. 3:05a difference. And the yetzer hara does not want to get you to sin. He's very…
7. 3:36Your tefillah heals the sick and gives children to the childless and gives parnassah to poor…
8. 4:06support, so they sent the speakers into town at night to give like lectures to like…
9. 4:37with his mother, right? That's how some people want to present it. "Who did Cain marry?"…
10. 5:07and then every one of them could say, 'If I died, it makes no difference.' He…

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