An Eagle Amongst Chickens | Rabbi Yisroel Majeski

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

Rabeinu Yona tells us that the first step in Avodas Hashem, in serving God, is that you have to know who you are and where you come from. Because if you don't know that, you can't start your mission. If you're in the army and you don't know your job, if you're a pilot and you think that you're supposed to be giving out donuts, you can't fight in the war. We have to know who we are. One of my favorite stories is the story of the eagle who lost his egg,

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1. 0:05Rabeinu Yona tells us that the first step in Avodas Hashem, in serving God, is that…
2. 0:35and the egg grows up amongst the chickens. And this eagle's walking amongst the chickens, and…
3. 1:05Mama, mama, look at that eagle. We wish we could fly. And Mama Chicken says, Don't…
4. 1:35If we want to overcome this challenge of Shemiras Einayim, it starts by knowing who we…

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