#22: Iggeres HaRamban (10 Minutes of Meaning) - The Key to Conquering Arrogance

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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.

studying the Rambam letter to his son, the Rambam's letter to all of us. The Rambam spoke about how we can condition ourselves to eliminate anger from our lives. If we speak calmly and sweetly and gently and serenely, then we'll never ever find ourselves getting angry. And in the place where the anger was, humility will find itself. And if a person is humble, then they'll be able to be filled with the awe and the fear of Hashem. If we make ourselves smaller, we make more room, more space to see, to feel, to perceive God in this world. And the Rambam spoke, "Anger is the categorically worst character trait. categorically worst character trait. Anger is destructive. Anger is poison. And in the inverse, humility is the supreme character trait. Humility is the foundation of all good character traits. If a person is not humble, then they can't they can't excel at any of the other character traits as well. We last left off last week that the Rambam told us that a person who's arrogant in their heart against others is more than Shamayim. We noted that arrogance can be in the heart even if a person is behaving externally humble. But if they're arrogant if inside they feel

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1. 0:30studying the Rambam letter to his son, the Rambam's letter to all of us. The Rambam…
2. 1:00categorically worst character trait. Anger is destructive. Anger is poison. And in the inverse, humility is…
3. 2:00is guy alive Adam. And the Ram now says if we want to conquer arrogance, we…
4. 3:01What's others get arrogant? Why? Others get arrogant about honor. They think I have name, I…
5. 4:02loan from Hashem. None of it is permanent. None of it is permanent. It's never part…
6. 5:02Kadosh Baruch Hu chooses who to elevate, who to lower, who succeeds, who fails, who lives…
7. 6:03the ball to first base. Anyone remember that? He had to start to throw it underhand.…
8. 7:05We have the yetzer hara to look at the wrong things. We have the yetzer hara…
9. 8:08this we God I call out to you from a lower place. So one does I…
10. 9:09much better says the if you live your own life with humility towards your children towards…

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