Parashat Balak: What It Really Means to Show Up as a Mensch

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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.

I'm going to teach you the most important thing you could ever know. We're going to learn it today. It's called tsuras Adam. It's a very important term that you need to know in your life. It's called tsuras Adam. Which means the form of a man. Are you a man? Are you a man? Are you a man? Are you a Jew? Do you have the Torah? Means the form, really. The form of a man, which means Are you a mensch? Do you have dignity? Do you have dignity? Are you Are you showing up Are you showing up like a man? Are you showing up like a mensch? As we've said many, many times before, the thing that defines you most is how good a husband and father you are. That defines you most. Not how rich you are, not how talented you are, not how intelligent you are, not how good-looking you are. How good a husband and father you are. Tsuras Adam, are you carrying yourself like a man? Like a mensch? Are you How do you carry yourself? And there's something else called shora. Very related words. Tsura called shora. Very related words. Tsura is the form. Shora is the the path. The expected way that you behave. So, they're very connected. If you have the right form, if you have the right image of yourself, if you're showing up how you're meant to show up, then you will be walking in the right path. You will have the If you have the right tsura, you should have the right shora. If you have the right self-image, you will then have the right actions and the way you

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