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A Hole in My Soul - Rabbi Ben Tzion Shafier

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Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky

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[Music] [Music] I remember as a child seeing a ad for a evaporated milk and on the package was the line our milk is better because it's made from contented cows contented cows and if you think about it a cow is content give a cow a field give the cow opposite gender cow a barn and the cow is happy and the reason why that's is happy and the reason why that's significant is because man is never content it's seems to be one of the strangest realities of the human condition that no matter who a person is no matter what stage in life they never just content they're always moving chasing doing Never Satisfied and it starts at a very tender young age if you want to teach your son to where it sit itss what you say to the young child is O do you want to be like young child is O do you want to be like musi Mishi wears tiits because the little boy wants to be like the big boy and the big boy wants to be like the bigger boy and throughout a child's growth there's always this getting to the next stage being on the next level and there's always this sort of interesting kind of not just being there not just being okay where I am this need to grow need to get to a new level and often time it doesn't

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  1. 0:00[Music]
  2. 3:59oldest camper I wanted more the next level and this is a reality endemic in The
  3. 7:00you're looking at is the soul never being filled and for the fun of it let's
  4. 10:36satisfied but the other half you're in a sh of your soul will be ever hungry
  5. 13:44Hashem gave you this inner need this very powerful powerful drive to accomplish to do but
  6. 17:24say so what so what and it will remain ever dissatisfied ever hungry ever with a
  7. 20:34can't be happy if there's a hole in your soul that's a line that they use
  8. 23:42written by a originally a vienes psychiatrist Victor Frankl Victor Frankle discovered that he was Jewish
  9. 27:23want to be happy but the problem is it's not what your creator made you for
  10. 30:28are passing and my Nisha knows I'm not taking that money with me and my sh

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