A Fabulous Life: Transformative Lessons for the Mind and Soul – Episode 3

What’s said in this shiur

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

So in right we've talked about a few core areas so far. Core area number one is the obligation of and as we learned in the context of Shabbat means to appreciate the weightiness of the parent. Right? So respect is not a clear word. But if I appreciate the weightiness, the importance, the significance, the then it's uh it's it's different. Okay. So we talked about different areas of kavod. We talked about the extreme case where the um father goes ahead and throws the uh the satchel full of gold coins into the water. We talked about that case. We're going to reference that again. We talked about the case of the not waking his father up to to uh to uh sell something that would have been that was ultimately extremely valuable for the family. We talked about some practical cases on a business level and then we talked about the concept of morra. Mora means to be in awe of. So we're going to explain morah as to be in awe of rather than to fear. We're going to say that fear means and morah with an olive is awe. And we talked about some of that also. Okay. Now we're going to move into a little bit of gray space. Okay. So you're good. You got Okay. Beautiful. Our rabbis are of different opinions. If the of is relative to in other words what the father wants he's going to get no toel from. He's going to get no benefit from. Right? the toellet the ultimate benefit of this

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1. 0:00So in right we've talked about a few core areas so far. Core area number one…
2. 6:34I don't want you to buy this field. I don't want you to buy this house.…
3. 12:54I'm going to come to that point in a minute because it's not quantifiable or measurable.…
4. 18:52She's feeling more loved and she wants this extra shot of love today. What do you…
5. 25:14>> how do you quantify the spirit of the law that's exactly what the rabbis are…
6. 31:35getting that benefit. >> What about me? Tell me. What about me? >> Haven't I the…
7. 37:16complicate things by doing business with our children and and because the trae trajectories now are…
8. 43:51Really is back and forth on it. And he says on the one hand it has…
9. 49:43dinner and go for >> what I say about that? The father lives all the way.…
10. 56:16>> Fabulous. >> That's right. >> This is coming only from love. Love of the father…

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