I am so Much Greater | Rabbi Eliyahu Sonnenschein

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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.

Nobody is perfect. [music] That's not a slogan or a mantra. But we say ain tzaddik ba'aretz asher ya'aseh tov v'lo yecheta. How strange it is then that after the vidui on Yom Kippur we're mitpallel, we say yehi ratzon shelo yecheta od. Yehi ratzon that we should never sin again. Never sin again? [music] Is that too tall an order? Is that asking too much? Try to imagine somebody told you that he's taking on a kabbalah to never sin again. You'd say, "No, no, no. That's not how it works, you see. [music] There's more to it. We have to [music] There's more to it. We have to put one foot in front of the next. We have to try our best. We have to work slowly." Yehi ratzon shelo yecheta od. Never again? The yetzer hara has this old simple trick. >> [music] >> Before an aveira he tells you, "Don't worry. You'll be the same guy. It won't change you at all." And the moment the person is over the aveira, he tells you that it's changed you forever. Now you are an avaryan. You are the aveira. You're beyond repair. But as Yidden we know that that's [music] not how we operate. There are

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1. 0:07Nobody is perfect. [music] That's not a slogan or a mantra. But we say ain tzaddik…
2. 0:37[music] There's more to it. We have to put one foot in front of the next.…
3. 1:07[music] not how we operate. There are things that we've done, but then there's who we…
4. 1:38it today because I did it yesterday. Lo yecheta od. I'm not going to do it…
5. 2:09told him, "Listen, let's just do this the old-fashioned way. On the left side of a…
6. 2:40absolutely reject that. We are more. We are bigger. We are greater. And we always will…

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