A shiur exploring the dangers of limiting oneself through personality labels and the power of self-transformation.
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Ready? Okay. Fantastic. Good evening to everybody. Thank you so much for joining. Just gonna begin with Okay. So, with Hashem's help, we continue with our journey through which is all about the dynamics of our relationship with Hashem in a very direct intimate way, right? contact with Hashem that doesn't necessarily come through the sitter, doesn't necessarily through the sitter, doesn't necessarily come through um the standardized ways of connecting mitzvah masim to it comes through direct communication. We've been speaking about using our own words, spending time with Hashem and many many of the shirum that we've given until now which we've given many um with Hashem's help have really all been about exploring what is the dynamic of this aspect of the relationship like what are we trying to do in a moment where we just set aside time and we go out just set aside time and we go out preferably in nature to converse with Hashem. Are we praying? Are we praising? like what what's the aspect of the way that we're supposed to be connecting to the divine in that moment. And we're speaking a lot about just spending time outside of any utilitarian context like it's not we're not trying to get anything out of it. It's just being present. That was the previous chapter that we learned all about living in the moment and not being
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- 6:08this is you know god and the other group the other cherub cherub on top of…
- 12:16with us jumping through hoops. It's just unearthing within ourselves that place of fundamental okayness and…
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- 36:54traits until 49 50 days later just a fascinating thing we have the most exalted experience…
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- 55:23The point is to catch the person so then you can get eaten. The sin is…
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