Feed your animal first— Parshas Eikev

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

a panda walks into a restaurant sits down orders a sandwich and uh before they can even bring him a bill he gets up pulls out a gun he shoots in the air and he runs out and as the panda is running away the manager screams after him says panda what are you doing you didn't pay for your sandwich the panda says yeah that's right i'm a panda look it up so the manager takes out a dictionary looks it up panda panda oh there's panda what is what does it say panda small black and white marsupial from asia that eats shoots and leaves okay let that soak in anyways you're going to see why i told this joke about animals eating okay within us we have the human we have the animal there's the uniquely human drive for bonding with the oneness with the all the everything and then there's the part of us that is part of the animal kingdom the the drive for self-preservation which is you know every living thing and we refer to this as two souls so that that desire to be surrendered to the one we call that the godly soul the neph shall accuse and that animalistic desire to to preserve the self is is called the nephew bahamas the animal soul now when it comes to the godly soul our duty in taking care of the godly soul is to allow it to reach ever higher peaks of

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1. 0:00a panda walks into a restaurant sits down orders a sandwich and uh before they can…
2. 1:33spiritual growth and and awe and love of hashem and then we also have a duty…
3. 3:37and also in microcosm if you think about the timeline of a person's life a person…
4. 5:09fruits let's just talk about the two grains it tells us that that the land of…
5. 7:14by way of uh siddhis it's interesting this same gemara was explained by the rabbi's father…
6. 9:18are the wheat crops developing nicely omar lahem he said to them your face the barley…
7. 10:49and then he would have avoided telling them the wheat crop now is not good but…
8. 12:50about owning up to their character flaws and and their defects and they're working with it…
9. 14:23why here's why because it's true that the main thing that people are involved in is…
10. 16:30first feed your animal then feed yourself meaning the priority the emphasis in life is first…

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