Part 131: You Like Ice Cream, You Love God

What’s said in this shiur

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

the notion that a righteous person lives with Amun as we introduce each and every week we are alive when we know there's something bigger than ourselves that's when we truly live with a vibrancy and a dynamism and a passion that's when we're alive and when we lose that we could be dead even while we are even while we are alive we're sleep walking through life thinking it's all about us our ego our happiness our pleasure our pride our credit the self-centered narcissistic person is dead while they're alive and the person who lives with Incredible faith and knows there's something bigger faith and knows there's something bigger to which they need to dedicate their life a mission and a purpose that they need to serve a difference that they're meant to make such a person even when they are of limited capacity is vibrant and very much alive even if they are even if they are limited I shared with you our visit uh last month to RTI Hertz when we were in La a person can be paralyzed in every muscle in their body and be incredibly Dynamic and alive and Illuminating the world and a person can have mobility and health and athleticism have mobility and health and athleticism and functionality and they might as well be dead because of how little difference they're making to anyone other than to themselves that is the thesis of the overall safer this notion of that if we're craving life if we want to be living then the way we find it is with that sense of is with that sense of amuna so we're starting a new chapter here in this book it's on page you have it in front of you the relationship between having fear or awe of God acknowledging God in our life and living with amuna with a

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1. 0:32the notion that a righteous person lives with Amun as we introduce each and every week…
2. 4:05that I want to so we can't we can't live a life in which it feels…
3. 7:39not really sure there's a lot of evidence in this direction but I kind of feel…
4. 11:10things the greatest pleasure man is capable of and we all know this we also have…
5. 14:43in Beethoven's house where there are thousands of people that go and his piano is roped…
6. 18:14what I was saying before before we said that there's no agnostic you're either living your…
7. 23:26always you're never alone Hashem I'm choosing what to watch let's see what would you want…
8. 27:00existence in the abstract amuna is when it's put into practice when it's put into play…
9. 30:36you and I can help you but we have to take that first step so amuna…
10. 34:39him or measure him because you can't Google him we have to make an extra effort…

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