Rabbi Nota Schiller - Weekly Torah Portion: Emor - Effective Decision Making

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

a few years ago it was actually it was a different world but it was at a time let's say shortly after lincoln was assassinated i was in high school in brooklyn and i remember having a discussion with a jew who subsequently became a great time with rochem the classmate of mine five of cohn and we were discussing the mechanics of making difficult decisions in life and he quoted a scholar he didn't at the time say who it was subsequently i found out but he quoted scholars having said you have a difficult decision to make in life go through the mock scenario as if you're making the decision for your son not for yourself make me if you have a son and then what would you tell your son if he came to ask you this dilemma how would you help guide him whatever you tell your son is what you should do now why would you think i'm throwing it out why would you think that that might be more effective than just thinking what's the right thing to do why is it more effective if you think about it for your song you'll think about the future you think long range whereas you're thinking for yourself you're going to think short range to relax the tension the anxiety that you feel because that's an immediate urgency that people want to get out of tension and when you think you escape a little bit and you take a longer view as he said then and that's an exercise that helps you take a longer view when you think

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