The Surprising Truth About Free Will - Chovot Halevavot: Cheshbon Hanefesh - Introduction

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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.

so we're carrying on and we're talking at the moment about your neish your animal soul and we said last time it's just completely focused on the present physical pleasure that's it sleep eat sex drugs anything just I I have a desire and then I have to fulfill the desire that's it that's what apart from your soul you are literally an animal there's no difference between you and an animal on the level of nees on your lower nees and what is an animals walking around it's just a machine that's all it is it's a machine of instant gratification what do I Fe like now what do I want now go and get it a lion is called the king of the beasts and we say that's a good thing but I actually just had this cup half a second ago when I said the word lion the why is it the king of the Beast cuz it's the most animalistic animal lion sleep for like 20 hours a day more 22 wake up kill eat and but by the way the man doesn't even do anything the woman basically the Lioness they go and do the kill most of them and then the man just basically gets up eats Beast with his wife goes back to sleep that's why he's called the king of the Beast not CU he's the greatest cuz he's the most animalistic animal the other thing about it is no no such thing as self-control it doesn't exist if I want

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1. 0:00so we're carrying on and we're talking at the moment about your neish your animal soul…
2. 3:14whatever it is so babies don't have thoughts so they only have experience and pure experience…
3. 6:24questions so I wish I'd been I wish I'd known what I know now and I…
4. 9:37hurt you should be happy that you're upset that it happened I'm happy with myself that…
5. 12:52bigger it's called in King Solomon calls the Sahara an old [Music] fool he's an old…
6. 16:06drives there you go and you become a free person of free will now what is…
7. 19:19that so I said I believe in that too I just believe that we have a…
8. 22:30didn't do any discoveries that I just didn't do I didn't P try to persuade anyone…
9. 25:47way and you can actually also see the consequences of your actions it's a big one…
10. 28:59their real in it but they do it because they care about the relationship the highest…

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