Ten Minutes of Meaning (Part 94): Shabbos is a Character Trait, Not Calendar Day - Mesillas Yesharim

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

step by step continue to improve and be committed to each of these qualities and character traits and you will live your best self you will make your greatest contribution to this world you will find the greatest meaning in this world beginning with zahir is mindfulness caution being present in every thought speech and action zurich's alacrity zeal enthusiasm high energy apply yourself set goals and make resolutions how to achieve them and then this third attribute the third quality which is nikhias can't possibly go through every single area of life area of life but he does identify what he says are central and core areas that if we can purge the temptation from ourselves if we can master and discipline and regulate our lives we can be our best selves and he's gone through several examples in the area of eating in the area of honesty in the area of truthfulness in the area of promiscuity in the area of competitiveness in the area he's gone through one by one all of these different areas to tell us that if we observe the torah's prescription for how to live our lives we can live for how to live our lives we can live our best selves which brings us up to shabbos vinegar now i wouldn't think that shabbos would be equality or character trait till now he's been talking about not to be vulgar promiscuous not to tell a lie to always tell the truth he's been talking about giving out good advice eating habits to maintain a healthy and good healthy living shabbos and yantif is a law isn't it aren't they days on the calendar do they really belong within this list of qualities of trying to perfect

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1. 0:33step by step continue to improve and be committed to each of these qualities and character…
2. 1:34for how to live our lives we can live our best selves which brings us up…
3. 2:37we say it friday night which means the halachus of shabbas there are many the mishna…
4. 4:09communicated the intricate detailed laws of shabbos you want to know the laws go learn the…
5. 5:10i disconnect from the noise and the chaos and the to-do lists and the obligation and…
6. 6:41you're still negotiating you're still networking and making connection you're always in sales mode abc always…
7. 7:43you can't buy so if you can't do it on shabbos don't talk about it on…
8. 8:43i'm going to move that tomorrow that totally diminishes and demeans it compromises and corrupts your…
9. 10:14let's do on shabbos what gives us back our soul if we want ledot osama if…
10. 11:16learn to not be struggling not be tempted but rather learn to purge it create a…

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