Part 20: When it Comes to Taking Credit, We Have it Upside Down and Backwards

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The opening of this shiur, in Parsha Perspectives - Rabbi Efrem Goldberg’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

okay good morning thank you again ese for hosting us we appreciate it and uh help yourself to coffee and what kind of muffin is that um crumb a crumb muffin please help yourself make okay um we're going to study today a piece from m m is from Rio desler REO desler was Mash in panovich was originally uh in not originally but was in England um I'll give you the exact dates of his I'll give you the exact dates of his life to give you a sense of context of desla was born in 1892 and died in 1953 he um as I say was uh was in picha and before that was born in Lita was in England was in London was in Gates head and then in P in panovich so there's six volumes I think it's up to six volumes of his SAS of the lessons that he taught um it's been lessons that he taught um it's been translated some of them have been translated into a three volume called strive for truth you may have seen it and was the of pich so he has a chapter here called very appropriate for our study and if you look at the footnote you'll see this was the this was the last talk Public public talk that his students said they merited to hear from him was on this subject our subject of so he begins the following one of the strongest Powers the inherent strengths within a person buried within a person one of the innate one of the intuitive characteristics of the human being is that we naturally see ourselves as independent we tend to want to see ourselves as autonomous we see ourselves as responsible for our own achievements and accomplishments that we are the Catalyst who brings something into fruition who

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1. 0:01okay good morning thank you again ese for hosting us we appreciate it and uh help…
2. 3:43achieved whatever it is that we were pursuing whatever it is we were seeking to achieve…
3. 7:20to the motive the pure the as he describes it the the pure aim or goal…
4. 11:29because because where did you get the strength from the ran in hisan says about this…
5. 15:02the sister for the PTA you might have an idea about something anything and you'll say…
6. 19:19have where did you find that draw all of a sudden you woke up this morning…
7. 22:53is a bizarre question for a kids journal was who's your arch nemesis kind of a…
8. 26:25Century you'll choose the same thing you're wearing it cuz it's what's in it's what's being…
9. 30:29deserves credit and to work on amuna is to say stop blaming God in the area…
10. 34:03you're saying that hashem's limiting it or not that's from Hashem and then the spiritual is…

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