Rabbi Shais Taub on "Getting Off of the Emotional Rollercoaster" - Sfas Emes on Chayei Sarah

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

Oh, glad people are eating finally. I've got a challenge. You can start. Okay, excellent. All right. All right, officially starting. So, this is uh Thursday night challenge. We have real challenge. Finished mine already. I finished mine before this year. Everyone else eats theirs during the share. Uh you can watch this on YouTube, but you can't eat the challenge on YouTube. Challenge because we eat challenge, and also we do something different every single week. We mix it up. Keep it uh keep it diverse and exciting. What do they say? Variety is the spice of life. Okay. Okay. So, this week we have for you the Gadol Rebbi. Reb Yehuda Aryeh Leib Alter, the Sfas Emes. The Sfas Emes uh is a collection of drashas, of uh sermons that the Sfas Emes gave, and it's called Sfas Emes. It was published posthumously. Um because the last drasha is Vayechi of taf reish sameach hey. taf reish sameach hey. What's that in English? 19 uh What was it? Taf reish sameach hey. Uh 1906. 1905. Right? Cuz it was January. So, it would've been already Oh, no, no, no. It would be 19 uh 1905. Is that right? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Right. Okay. It was Parshas Vayechi. And the last words of the drasha Vayechi of that year was Sfas Emes. So, they

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1. 0:00Oh, glad people are eating finally. I've got a challenge. You can start. Okay, excellent. All…
2. 3:36And so now now he has to go make kiddush. So, he was like scrounging around…
3. 7:12So, the Sfas Emes explains, "I'm talking subjectively. Taking I'm talking about how she took it.…
4. 10:50V'hu ma'ala gedola l'eyas adam emed b'timimusay b'chol ma'asheh over alav. This is a great virtue…
5. 14:26a rabbi at all, let alone a chief rabbi. He certainly did not see himself as…
6. 18:00You know, so when we're talking about we're not talking about somebody who's oblivious. We're not…
7. 21:31Cuz you need one who knows how to write, you need another one who knows how…
8. 25:05changing, or you say, "No, life is about serving Hashem, and that's a constant. So, whatever…
9. 28:45In other words, their completeness, which means their unwavering mental and emotional state. They bring that…
10. 32:21king is autonomous and the ministers eat at a fixed time. Then the sad one is…

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