Breaking Free from the Rat Race - Chovot Halevavot: Cheshbon Hanefesh - Gate 18

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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.

says in ethics of our fathers Kina jealousy TAA physical craving Cav e honor seeking take them take you out of the world now the first thing you have to understand in Judaism the world is the spiritual world because if you actually think about it jealousy physical craving and honor seeking bring you into the world that's all the worldly stuff so already we see a shift that what is the real world if your parents say to you hey you got to live in the real world man what do they mean it means you got to get in the rat race the rat race and so get in the rat race the rat race and so if your parents said you got to live in the real world man you say I am I am to fill inas shabas that's the real world and yes I'll get a job and look after my family and be a noble person but that's not the real world that's the fake world so the real world is the world of God of n that's the real world so Kina jealousy they taking you away from spirituality and we know where it all started it started in the Garden of Eden in the Garden of Eden geden Hashem made Adam and Eve perfect beings then gave the evil the snake the embodiment of evil Vil an external force and what are we teach our sages we are which means we are finite aspects of

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1. 0:01says in ethics of our fathers Kina jealousy TAA physical craving Cav e honor seeking…
2. 2:10are which means we are finite aspects of infinite Consciousness we're basically projections of God we're…
3. 4:42Hashem I'm a peace of hem I'm a manifestation of godliness it's amazing but she didn't…
4. 7:19blessed is blessed is the good obviously is 52 and is 52 because they're the same…
5. 9:53about themselves someone with G arrogance and Hess they need the recognition and they put other…
6. 12:38particularly great so Judaism doesn't believe that a humility means saying I'm nothing and I'm bad…
7. 14:42walking back up and down and I said what are you doing and he said I…
8. 17:17uplifted so the by the way someone who's completely worked on their character traits they deserve…
9. 19:51sand grain of sand Earth then you got the observable universe observable universe forget the universe…
10. 22:27great about you so you got this today's one is hit whenever you feel so good…

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