Win the battle against your ego

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

[Music] so everyone at some point in their life if they're approaching Judaism will do some kind of like heavy self nullification I don't know what that is nullification I don't know what that is for different people but I know what it was for me and I know what it is for many guys in yeshiva I don't know what girls do exactly maybe they like buy a new wardrobe that totally that that nullifies anyone paying any attention right anyway but there but I myself I remember that the day I took off on my hair and went for the full you know like self nullification but would I not self nullification but would I not realized was something amazing is on my way home from on my way home from the barber I was on my way to the old city and I realized that I've become totally anonymous no one's paying any attention to me at all like I'm just like I'm like an extra in a film like I'm just not of any consequence whatsoever and no one paid any attention to me I just walked by I mean if I didn't say hi to someone by I mean if I didn't say hi to someone no one was gonna be saying hi back I had a mirror looking at me at all which was the first time I realized after a long period of time that I had been drawing a lot of attention my way and which way which was pretty interesting you could give me a favor and sit like I don't know maybe right in the center of this camera or maybe you just one of you volunteer to sit right maybe that seat back there it's perfect yeah that's good son good oh yeah yeah I

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1. 0:01[Music] so everyone at some point in their life if they're approaching Judaism will do some…
2. 4:39know what it is exactly but it's probably also related to hair in somewhere no now…
3. 9:16this class that women notice that you check them out because and the reason is because…
4. 14:22a you know a glass guardrail there with what do you call that it's tinted yeah…
5. 19:01garbage stuff that's the non rectified parts but there is a there is a more rectified…
6. 23:51tell that story when you get home for Shabbos make it a man just make it…
7. 28:39you raised observant okay anyway it is a little strange I personally I personally so far…
8. 33:22oh yeah so that's the last point I want to make on this subject is is…
9. 38:06male-dominated hierarchies is very very normal now it's often dangerous obviously because hierarchies can shift quickly…
10. 42:51on the world around them it's also it's not so clear with the church because the…

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