Rabbi David Tawil: Life Lessons From Pirke Abot- "Is Our Stuff Blocking Us from Happiness?"

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

okay welcome everybody thank you uh 736-307 then they don't have the right link should they first of all it should work without a without a yeah sure maybe there's only a few people yeah okay okay so first of all welcome everybody thank you so much uh I apologize for the time change we had something that went on that I had to make an adjustment but I really thank everybody for helping me to accommodate thank you so much uh could you see a leon for opening up their home as always um today's class I just want to make sure I get it right is you texted it to me Lucy [Music] and you know okay um so there was in the early 1900s a uh psychologist may have heard of him his name was Jean Piaget who lives from 1898 to 1980 and he's considered the founding father of child psychology and you notice something interesting about the development of children he he develops what they call the theory of cognitive development of children you cognitive development of children you know and how we develop the way in which we think and we noticed something very very interesting early on from some of the youngest ages early as you know not even a year old that children learn to develop an attachment to things that they think belong to them they developed this innate awareness of uh ownership or possession over something so if you hand the kid a lollipop and you say here this is yours and then you try to take that lollipop back and keep streaks out right

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1. 0:00okay welcome everybody thank you uh 736-307 then they don't have the right link should they…
2. 4:08um you know they watch Let's Make a Deal once you give the contestant a thousand…
3. 8:25set of meals both in happy occasions and maybe set occasions and so on so they…
4. 12:31looked ignore don't steal what's the connection between not stealing somebody's object and saying God's name…
5. 17:06an illusion it probably is but it's working in our brains that it has meaning to…
6. 21:10but he was elderly he no longer practiced he didn't do anything and he had his…
7. 25:14because we feel guilty that we're not doing anything else with them because we're working all…
8. 29:51their Worth to the fact that when a person thinks before they go to sleep at…
9. 33:55and feelings of animosity and jealousy and frustration all begin to sink in all those horrible…
10. 38:05terms of so that could also help you talk about it that you have the right…

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