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Mussar Masterclass 1.2 |Will Power with Rabbi Aryeh Wolbe

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Rabbi Aryeh Wolbe

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all right good evening everybody welcome back to the muslim master class 1.2 uh i think this is the seventh class in the second series and i'm thrilled tonight to talk about a very very fundamental topic that really is the the uh the linchpin for all of our muscle work and that is and that is the trait of will willpower having willpower and being able to uh have the the battery so to speak that gets things done i want to start with a story so there was this amish boy who went to the mall with his dad for the very first the mall with his dad for the very first time it was the first time they were ever in a mall they've never been to a mall before and everything they saw was was exciting but you know it was interesting was intriguing but there was one thing that was absolutely mind-blowing it was these silver walls that would open and close silver walls that were open and close now what what they didn't know was that this was an elevator they had no idea what that was but they would see these silver walls but they would see these silver walls closing and opening closing and opening so they see at one point a woman wheels up with a wheelchair and she pushes a button by the silver wall and the doors open and she rolls into the silver wall and then the door closes a minute later they see the door opening and a young 24 year old woman walks out

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  1. 0:05all right good evening everybody welcome back to the muslim master class 1.2 uh i think
  2. 5:18if one has the will they can overcome anything if one has the will the desire
  3. 11:04unless a person really has the will if a person has the will and asks hashem
  4. 16:47god doesn't want me to do just so that you know i can't do something that
  5. 22:03guide him what is they guide him what is they who is they listen to this
  6. 27:48yourself with that will i want to read to you something else now you want to
  7. 33:30creating the vessel for success to come our way so how exactly can we change ourselves
  8. 38:42so there's a whole nother conversation that needs to be had and that is how do
  9. 44:28someone's mind someone's intentions is like an open marketplace call me sure whatever comes to your
  10. 50:16to create those angels for good and for god forbid the opposite it's it's an incredible

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