Part 120: Would You Do it if God Was in the Room?

What’s said in this shiur

The opening of this shiur, in Parsha Perspectives - Rabbi Efrem Goldberg’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

self-focused lives all we care about is our own pleasure our own happiness our own Joy we're not really alive we're dead even while we are alive and the truth is we see that all around us there are people whose lives are defined by their own uh their own pursuit of their own pleasure and they're empty they're hollow inside because there's always something out there that they think happiness is outside themselves if only I had more money if only I had more more uh status if only I had more honor if only I had more power if only I had a different spouse if only I had different children if only I had there are people who think that not me I have the perfect spouse just ask her I'm just joking I have the perfect spouse there are people who think if only I had I'd be happy because really it's all about me and what I deserve and what I want and what I need and if the whole world would fall in line with the way that I drew it up if everyone would behave and act the way I want them to then I'd be happy and such people are dead even while they're alive you ever interact with somebody who sleepwalking through life who's depressed and

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1. 0:35self-focused lives all we care about is our own pleasure our own happiness our own Joy…
2. 3:49we could realize we can submit to a higher power there's something so much bigger than…
3. 7:31faith to know that I can confront whatever comes my way today the muscles to have…
4. 11:06is late when our kid bless you is misbehaving or knocks on your door even though…
5. 14:56power if you live with every minute of the day are connected to you are tied…
6. 18:35was making us more knowledgeable people it gave us greater wisdom but it wasn't making us…
7. 21:42direct correlation between living with faith submitting to a higher power realizing there's something greater than…
8. 25:28what kind of of friend what kind of family member are you so when you hang…
9. 29:08next to you if you wouldn't say that with him sitting next to you if you…
10. 32:53couldn't raise his arm to schedule the MRI and yesterday I had to go into surgery…

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