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#26: Iggeres HaRamban (10 Minutes of Meaning) - Cultivating Humility

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Rabbi Efrem Goldberg

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person can't fulfill their potential if they're inflated ego if they're arrogant arrogance is the categorically worst Mida with anger it sabotages our success in all that we do so he pointed out last time that used the word reflexive how can a person transform and mold eles reflexively condition yourself to be with mid with the mid of humility to go with it toid always always you can't be half pregnant you can't be half humble you can't be part-time vegan or vegetarian you either are or you aren't so a person who is not humble all the time is never humble to a certain extent that doesn't mean it's all or nothing we should work on it until we can improve and grow in it but it's not an All or Nothing proposition nevertheless T it means it's something that we should be working towards regularly consistently constantly to always be dress for the job that you want not the one that you have we're impacted by how we act after our actions and behavior the heart follows don't wait to be humble in order to project humility project humility says thean and the result will be it will turn us into somebody who's humble so how do you do that how do we condition ourselves to be humble thean has a formula thean now gives us specific details as ran said to us earlier at the very beginning of his letter to his son all of your communication all of your interactions should be Bas should be with a sense of pleasantness a pleasant a sense of of Peace why becauseas is theas to be Bas is the opposite of GAA an arrogant person loses their cool an arrogant person screams and yells and is Harsh and ruthless an arrogant person their ego needs everyone to fall in line

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  2. 1:09always always you can't be half pregnant you can't be half humble you can't be part-time…
  3. 2:10very beginning of his letter to his son all of your communication all of your interactions…
  4. 2:41fall in step to follow their direction to act exactly in their way the Arrogant person…
  5. 3:44they put it on uh what's the setting you can't hear anything not mute the airpods…
  6. 4:44yell it don't use it as a weapon to beat people over the head with it…
  7. 5:18with if you want to do it constantly consistently then also always speak the second thing…
  8. 6:22head high in the air arrogant ego you push away Hashem you push away Hashem if…
  9. 6:52left hand over your heart and your head down that's how a person would appear before…
  10. 7:54not even when you're looking straight when your head is down a little bit that's when…

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