Chelek 15, Vayeitzei 4 - Rabbi Aryeh Weinstein - Sicha Discourse

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this week's on parsha's vayetse and it is a secret that discusses a most fundamental approach to the way we are meant to be in life and it's a delicate subject and so I'm going to preface the core idea now at the outset and then we'll go into the sikha and the idea is that the the that the most important way for a person to approach being in the world is in a state of what's known in Hebrew as Bittle which is a very key word in Hasidic philosophy and also a word which is a delicate word in um not always very easy to um to be able to grasp in its uh in in its in its true intended Manner and so to the best of my ability I'm going to express how I relate to it and that is that Bittle is not when someone um removes themselves from the picture which very often is translated as self nullification but bittel actually means where we remove our egoic self a an identity that we feel the need to create because for some reason we feel worthless without attaching some type of value to ourselves sometimes that will show up as accomplishments or as degrees or as assets all different types of things that we that we use as external means to attribute value to ourself and that all comes from the ego desperately needing to prove itself to the world and Bittle is when a person begins to let go more and more of any type of self-created identity and has their identity simply and purely from the very fact that I am a Divine being

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1. 0:00this week's on parsha's vayetse and it is a secret that discusses a most fundamental approach…
2. 4:17us that all of the other assets that he that he attained which were included as…
3. 8:27um some sheep from eight servants servants camels and donkeys which I noted before and we…
4. 12:46but in some type of a defined form in the Hasidic language we would call that…
5. 17:09in Apostle in the beautiful verse from the book of ishael and I'll be the prophet…
6. 21:52intense is referring to the fact that he would stay in the Yeshiva in the in…
7. 26:03um the striped sheep he kept on changing the type of sheep he would get as…
8. 30:10completely disregard them that cries of boldness number two this Gabriel is that one has to…
9. 34:26from sheep it came from Bittle he was very careful to make sure he lived out…
10. 38:42with money but it is with showing up with Bittle and being being and and giving…

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