A Fabulous Life: Transformative Lessons for the Mind and Soul – Episode 7

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

Okay, gentlemen. Good morning. So, um we we touched on some uh some very uh interesting uh points yesterday. I want to expand on that with God's help. today in the following context. Right? We have so what we did yesterday is we talked about right weightiness, respect, morah or in the context of um um the father not getting any direct pleasure from it. So the father doesn't get the direct classic pleasure if the son uh if the son respects his request does not get any direct pleasure i.e E the five or six areas of direct pleasure which the brings down uh food, drink, shelter, transport, the five key areas that fall in the context of cavod that fall in the context of cavod of honor or weightiness towards the parent. This is outside that. Hi Jeffrey, good to see you. >> Hi, how are you? Oh, >> very nice to see you. Oh, this is an honor. Wow. >> So now the question becomes as follows. We have a minhag. Uh we have a minhag. Yeah. And a minhag versus And a minhag versus the request of the father which is outside the context of the father's enjoyment. So let's line up our our hik benchmarks. benchmark number one is that cavod is fairly black and white or to appreciate the weightiness of the relationship with your father right which we call respect but in the in the truest sense it means weightiness importance it means that we

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1. 0:00Okay, gentlemen. Good morning. So, um we we touched on some uh some very uh interesting…
2. 5:44category A. And if my father has something to gain or lose from a financial point…
3. 11:23life, what do I have to do? What what do you say? What do I have…
4. 17:03strongly about to go to the mikvah, a man to go to the mikvah every morning…
5. 22:51becomes my commitment to a if it's not a mitzvah, it's a minhag. And I can't…
6. 28:28>> No, Joey's saying, "Do I have to listen to him?" He was good with it…
7. 34:07a min that I can't be a mitzvah, if I could break a minhag, if I…
8. 39:41context of cavod and morah, as we're framing it, he he the son does not have…
9. 45:23and throws it in the ocean, all his money, >> all his money, you can't say…
10. 51:11in the other. What's the point of bringing daddy something to eat? So he's not hungry,…

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