A lecture on achieving true humility during Elul, given by Rabbi Alon Anava.
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[Music] Good evening everybody. Shab see you came in tired today. Nobody's even bothering to answer besides one person. >> Thank you. Somebody greets me. Hello. I greet them back. No. Shalom. Shalom. to so welcome for the ones here local. Welcome the ones online. Tonight we're going to have a very short and to the point lecture. Uh short is >> it's a relative but the point is that it's going to be short and to the point. So pay attention because tonight we're going to learn one of the most important things when I want to grow spiritually. bring Hashem into my life, go on the path that I need to go on, then I require a very unique attribute, a very special quality that is called midata, the attribute of humility, of being humble. And tonight I'm going to touch it a little bit because without that you have no way of growing spiritually or moving anywhere in the world. And really that's what one needs to focus on. So today we're going to talk about in tomorrow's lecture we're going to talk about faith and trust in hem and after you figure these two out and hopefully have a little bit of good quality advice then on Thursday the lecture is going to be how to set your goals and what goals you need to set and then how to achieve them because most people they they don't even know how to get to the point of setting a goal to achieve the goal that's a whole different thing. setting the goal that's another part. So we all know we're inul very spicious time very good time to take on myself a change. Now I hope that each and every
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