Breaking Free From Your Animal Soul - Chovot Halevavot: Cheshbon Hanefesh - Introduction

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

so we're talking about we're actually learning but we've taken a little break to learn accounting of the soul and I photocopied [Music] the a introduction the you got the means the introduction between is like a often a forward written by someone else written by someone else and then the is the introduction written by the author but sometimes I think I wrote A and A of my own book when you go for a walk on the banks of the river you will come across a valley that river you will come across a valley that is full of reads and reads yamu is the actually is not the Red Sea by the way did you know that yam is the Reed sea and it got Mis qued at some point and they called the red those tall grass grass with the little thing so you come there's a whole valley full of these reads they're all standing up that one next to that one a whole f of these reads and not one of them has any power to move itself even a tiny bit from where it is what it can go up go out well that's not moving itself it's being mov even that even their growth even if you want to say that they're not doing their growth but we're talking about side to side now it's standing there it can't move at all it standing there it can't move at all it has no power to move it's completely immobile however a tiny little bit later with the most tiny little wisp of wind a tiny little whsp of

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1. 0:00so we're talking about we're actually learning but we've taken a little break to learn accounting…
2. 2:42wind you'll see the whole field of reads like just flowing and swaying like waves in…
3. 5:19that maybe a second nature you have a nature that you're born with and then you…
4. 7:53experience of reality is just a chemical reaction it's chemical and electrical reaction which is trained…
5. 10:55children no that's just how the stories always end so basically he's saying but in his…
6. 13:31eating and sleeping and you're just making your animal stronger and stronger and stronger and harder…
7. 16:12of bed but you want to stay in bed you want to smoke it you don't…
8. 19:22once happened to be Osho or something God forbid oh we don't have so much so…
9. 21:57quickly what he goes on to say I didn't give you the the the rest of…
10. 24:29yourself well enough and we've always said this it always has to be from a place…

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