KLM Ascending the Scale of Empathy on the 9th of Av with Rabbi Asher Baruch Wegbreit

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

[Music] hi welcome uh back to klm and we're zoho to be in the base midrash of the yibbana torah site it's a very big privilege okay we're going back to focus uh on something that's a little shockingly said normally judaism is about being in a state of joy in a state of content in a state of happiness right yet three weeks in a year maybe there's a couple more days we're told to be unhappy we're we're told to focus on what we're lacking right and that's a little shocking right because it says in perkiavos that a person is a wealthy person is happy with his portion and now we're supposed to focus on what we're missing and if you will be in a bad mood now listen to the degree they expect this of us okay we're supposed to uh the the arizona says that during right now the nine days you should spend half an hour a day crying okay and not tears of joy okay tears of the sadness so despondency crying it doesn't almost seem jewish okay so that's what we're told to do and i want to tell you this is a secret uh once you hear it it won't be but um there's something extraordinary about when hashem commands us to do something okay right we're talking about governor on the mitzvos but motion emotions that are not healthy okay worry and anxiety are without question first of all all the

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1. 0:05[Music] hi welcome uh back to klm and we're zoho to be in the base midrash…
2. 2:44tells you feel fear that we know from rabbanu worry worry about the consequences right or…
3. 5:51the people that i know that um uh struggled with addiction right and then they you…
4. 8:29you do that but then they tested him in torah and he they saw this person…
5. 11:39of empathy empathy is actually a very divine characteristic right compassion um connecting to someone else's…
6. 14:54our soul is kind of trapped in a dungeon hence the picture right so the first…
7. 17:36fall asleep close your eyes and i'm going to share this story with you there was…
8. 20:50million jews uh it's not i don't know the exact numbers but millions of jews have…
9. 23:32suffering to occur hashem you know it says we declare the talmud says everything hashem does…
10. 26:44again we're supposed to be mourning now every day we should be morning maybe we can…

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