Stop Blaming Circumstances | Letter #3 of Thirty Letters in Thirty Days 5786

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

We are live. Baruch Hashem. 30 letters in 30 days class number three. Yes, it is Purim. A freilichen Purim to all. Baruch Hashem. 30 letters in 30 days, we don't miss. We don't miss a night. I know it's Purim, but uh we got to learn. [snorts] So uh thank you for joining me on this busy evening. We're going to in Yeah, yeah, we're going to have a sheer tomorrow night as well. jump into tonight's letter, I want to show you something. And it ties in with tonight's letter. And that is there's this uh this book. >> [clears throat] >> No, I'm not selling the book. I mean, you could buy it. I don't care. You can go on Amazon and buy it. Called Am Letters, volume one, and then there's a Am Letters, volume two. It's a anthology of a bunch of the columns that I wrote for the Ami magazine advice column. So, uh I wrote a forward for both volumes. It's the same forward in both volumes. I just want to read part of it to you. Um just part of it, not the whole thing. As for my lack of experience in writing in the genre, I decided to emulate as best as I could the style of the thousands of published letters of my rabble rabble chatter who say yoga in LA

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1. 0:00We are live. Baruch Hashem. 30 letters in 30 days class number three. Yes, it is…
2. 4:05So, I'm sharing that with you because yeah, that's one of the things I that I…
3. 7:08same basic uh year which is Tash uh Tavshin Tet Zayin the uh last few months…
4. 10:14time and the concentration. So evidently you do have time and you do have the capacity…
5. 13:19Um abstraction, it's capable of of grasping a abstraction. And therefore it act as sort of…
6. 16:55okay, so that's a detail. We can we can tweak details. That that's very fixable. Something…
7. 20:00Gevagula. Regarding what you wrote about the lack of harmony among those in your circle. And…
8. 23:08appropriate for them. That's all that No one's demanded It's It is not demanded of anyone…
9. 26:14And furthermore, it actually weakens one's ability to take care of things as they are. It's…
10. 29:24avaydosum v'nakal yoser, it's much easier for them to do their job. You have that advantage…

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