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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 basically, you're going to die. All right? It's going to happen one day. Hopefully very many years from now, you will die. The question is, are you going to achieve what you were meant to achieve before that happens? That's the question. Now, I can back off very quickly just so you're not that freaked out. You're actually not going to die. >> You're a soul. You're pure consciousness. Pure consciousness never dies. Souls don't die. But the body that dies. Souls don't die. But the body that you inhabit temporarily that is going to die. But there is a reason that you're in the body and you have to understand what is that reason and you have to then work towards achieving that. That's very very simple. So what we're going to do in this course together is we're going to build out the whole purpose of why you're here. And first we're just going to do it in a very general way that I believe all of humanity can buy into and then we're going to get a little bit then we're going to get a little bit deeper into the cabalistic underpinnings of the whole of reality which is very important as well. So I grew up in England not religious strong Jewish identity played lots of sport rugby the greatest sport. You look like a rugby player. Maybe rugby bit. No, American Australian rules. Australian rules or just anyway football. I played I've played soccer football and tennis. I played lots of sport and then I basically went to university, studied philosophy, was a

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1. 0:00So basically, you're going to die. All right? It's going to happen one day. Hopefully very…
2. 2:32have a bit of a struggle. life will be okay. Uh 67% divorce rate. 82% of…
3. 5:36here. You have to have immense clarity. If you want to achieve something, you have to…
4. 8:37shouldn't have smoked so much weed. I shouldn't have done that. So that and once you're…
5. 11:11do?" Okay, good. Any questions so far? What's the goal? What does it take to achieve…
6. 14:17extent that you achieve the right goal, the right purpose, then you had a successful life…
7. 17:26to speak up. I want that. I like that. Then we can debate it and I'll…
8. 19:59Yes. So how do we define success to the extent that you achieve the purpose? So…
9. 23:05backyard and you're just like what's the purpose of life? I don't know. Don't get some…
10. 26:09emotions and six years in Asia. And then I was going to canoe down the Amazon.…

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