The Prince Who Thought He Was a Chicken -"Chasidic Stories"- Rabbi Dovid Gottlieb

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there is a classical story by nakano braslov which a lot of his stories are inaccessible they're very very complex and they usually end in the middle um and the symbolism is very very deep and complex this story is more simple but i think it raises very very but i think it raises very very fundamental issues and issues that are in even in our world are very fundamental and there are issues which are usually hidden from people they don't aware of what they're missing they're what one politician called the unknown unknowns it's not so terrible if you're aware of it's not so terrible if you're aware of what you don't know [Music] if the need comes to make a decision you could try to fill in your missing knowledge but if you're unaware of what you don't know then you go ahead blindly and you you have no thank you very much and you have no uh way to correct your your arguments the story goes like this there once was a king who had a son the prince um let's say that prince was 15 and he suddenly manifested a severe psychological ailment he tore off all his clothes and started crawling around the ground and started crawling around the ground crawling like a chicken i mean this was horrible the prince of course they called in the doctors their wise men nobody could do anything nobody could affect him to talk to him they tried pushing him or starving him or it made absolutely no difference he just behaved like a chicken so a general call came out you know the

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1. 0:02there is a classical story by nakano braslov which a lot of his stories are inaccessible…
2. 4:38he takes the prince back into all the trappings of human life and in each state…
3. 9:50place it took i saw in a series of essays this was translated into english because…
4. 14:21and soul is for the soul gradually to transform the body into an ally of spirituality…
5. 19:26from them now there are many people who operate one that one picture and many people…
6. 23:59is it possible for your behavior to come under your control let's say using our point…
7. 29:06nobody joined that the dictator of east germany said east germany will be here for a…
8. 33:41accurate that way a much more accurate perception of the world that way so yeah that's…
9. 38:47can come from the impure you think that the sources are impure i'm i'm i'm damned…
10. 43:22and for what purpose the things around us what purpose they serve i want to end…

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