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Tomer Devorah: The 2nd Medication To Emulate Kesser - Ingredient 1 Honor All, Ingredient 2 Love All

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Rabbi Daniel Glatstein

Rabbi Daniel Glatstein explores the ethical teachings of Tomer Devorah and the importance of honor and love in Jewish character development.

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Okay, good evening friends. Continuing Sefer Tomer Devorah. We're in perek sheni, which is the mida of kesser, which is primarily humility. And we learned the medication, the elixir that the Ramak concocted this potion to acquire humility. It consisted of three ingredients. Number one, to train yourself to run away from kavod as much as possible. Because if you're accustomed to people honoring you, then you're going to get used to it, and you're going to need it, and it will be hard to be cured. Number two, you should think about your shame. And even if you say, "Well, nobody else knows about it, so why should uh so why does it affect me?" Nevertheless, the person says just it's just because they don't know about it. If they would only know the sort of the shame of of uh Now, you have to be very strong to think that way. You know, if you're a weakling, if you don't have high self-esteem, it's going to be hard to think about one's own shame. He's talking about thinking about what happens to the food that you eat. And the lowly part of man. And the third uh ingredient is to bear to remember your sins. And that the best yeshurun in the world are ones that don't take you away from avodas Hashem if people shame you. >> [snorts] >> Okay, now the Ramak is going to give us another medication, and this medication

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  1. 0:00Okay, good evening friends. Continuing Sefer Tomer Devorah. We're in perek sheni, which is the mida
  2. 1:38will take us to the end of the perek. We're not going to uh be able
  3. 3:56the first potion you're looking at your your Yourself? Yourself. >> But this is all creations.
  4. 6:04doesn't say how big or great meaning how sure how sure it is. The works of
  5. 7:41to honor all of creation. You see, by honoring all of creation it humbles you. Instead
  6. 9:47No, because I make mistakenly thought that that person looked like the receiver. Yeah, I didn't
  7. 12:08So, Reb Goldberg asks, "What? Really?" You should say as I say, he says, "If If
  8. 13:43That the way to hate reshaim is like the way a householder hates the mice in
  9. 15:54Don't gaze at their faults, but in their good qualities. But in their good qualities. You
  10. 18:01hardships maybe his soul is cleaner than my soul. The llama and therefore Hashem loves him.

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