Ten Minutes of Meaning (Part 92): Truthfulness is the Foundation of the World - Mesillas Yesharim

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

continuing who has laid out the course the formula for us about how to live our best selves how to try to perfect ourselves in this world zahiro's mindfulness cautiousness and then zereza's alacrity zeal enthusiasm to go pursue our goals with resolutions and with strategies and now meet this on the kiosks which is a long chapter with identifying different parts of our lives our character our behavior and telling us that to live our best selves we need to nikeas we need to purge we need to cleanse ourselves of some of these poor habits and negative behaviors and negative behaviors and to be able to streamline our lives to conform to who we want to be and to how we want to live and so the latest one he's been speaking about is the power of power of speech which is so appropriate for today eratish above and for this time of the year the nine days the three weeks but really is relevant to the entire year around being a medabear is the highest level of the four levels or descriptions of creation itself from the domain creation itself from the domain and the madaba the capacity the power to speak to use our words to communicate with others to be able to take ideas and concepts to formulate and articulate them in ways in which we can build and construct elevate and enrich it is a unique powers which distinguishes man and therefore we have to be exceedingly careful with how we use it if we abuse it we actually compromise and corrupt ourselves and when we're careful and safeguard it then we realize the best of who we could be

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1. 0:45continuing who has laid out the course the formula for us about how to live our…
2. 1:45creation itself from the domain and the madaba the capacity the power to speak to use…
3. 2:47signature the stamp of the holy one his signature his emblem his logo is truth that…
4. 4:24the person who cannot tell a lie the person who has this unyielding faithfulness the truth…
5. 5:25to achieve an objective truth sometimes you have to be willing to bend a subjective or…
6. 7:00the truth so it's an opportunity vida davar our deburr ilahadvaram we're in the book of…
7. 8:02perfect yourself you want to live your most whole and complete life possible then it includes…
8. 9:05i want a piece of that i want part of that we're here to be marbeque…
9. 10:37what about just existing and says there is no such thing as neutral or power it…
10. 11:38overcome the biases we have to be dedicated to kidness hashem in the way that we…

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