Ten Minutes of Meaning (Part 110): Diligence and Focus - Mesillas Yesharim

What’s said in this shiur

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

having no spontaneity it doesn't mean having no excitement or enthusiasm it simply means being in control of our thoughts our speech and our action and once we have improved let alone master that we move over to this reasons resources is acting with alacrity zrez is a zeal jesus is unleashing our passion setting goals and making resolutions to achieve them and then we moved over to the media of nikhias nikhias has been a long long journey in which the ramkhan has described all the character traits all the impulses and instincts that we should try to get rid of move from the daily grind the daily battle to the conquered territory to look at unhealthy food and have no appetite for it to think about using profanity and have no desire to express ourselves that way to swell with anger but not allow it to be actualized and to never get angry or envious and he's gone through them one by one which brings us up to the chapter parakeet based chapter 12 what we're up to which has been talking about how do you acquire the media of nikhias how does one grow in that need in that character trait of purging from ourselves the bad attitude the bed behavior and he said the number one thing is what we spoke about last week the number one thing is that a person needs to review over and over and over again you can never let up you have to constantly be reviewing reading listening thinking put magnets put bumper stickers put post-it notes put things all over that remind us about who we want to be because the most important things and

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3. 3:06by studying these words and these words a person is made aware of what we did…
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