Are we living life ALL WRONG!?

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

the meaning of life how important is it to seek the meaning of life it's interesting because actually it's a subject of dispute between two great Jewish psychologists of the previous Century you have uh Victor Frankl of course who was a holocaust Survivor and many many people think that he wrote logotherapy as a response to his as experience it's actually quite the opposite he came up with it as a theory and then unfortunately he had multiple uh opportunities to see it verified his theory was that a person needed to have meaning he needed to have a reason to live and that it was actually essential to survival and then in the camps he actually saw this the people who lost the will to live um could not go on at the same time interestingly in 1940s you have another Jewish psychologist imagine that a Jewish psychologist H yeah it's another one of those anti-semitic tropes the over representation of the Jews in certain Fields by the way I I want to say for full transparency you know where Jews what profession Jews are really over represented rabbis it's like dominated by Jews so there was another Jewish psychologist at the exact same time as Frankl who lived in Austria there was a a Jewish psychologist by the name of maslo Abraham maslo he lived in California and he had the uh the famous hierarchy of needs which is a representation it's a sort of a diagram of a pyramid and the base of the pyramid the widest level the

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2. 1:31so there was another Jewish psychologist at the exact same time as Frankl who lived in…
3. 3:05a community so a person for for instance who's who's trying to keep their body alive…
4. 5:06and spirituality but first things first and and Frankle I think would be on the side…
5. 6:39thought that depending on what age you are what generation you are I I would say…
6. 8:40who came to America and said I want my kids to be doctors and lawyers and…
7. 10:14care of our spiritual needs and that has always been always been disastrous for the Jews…
8. 11:45these things last week we spoke about the importance of using these tools and flooding the…
9. 13:48relying on the few little Flames by the dining room table to to keep you from…
10. 15:20who is suffering because everything that you own is just destroying your life because it doesn't…

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