Living With Inner Standards | Orchos Tzaddikim

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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.

the paths, the the ways of theim because we want you to be aik. I want you to be a sadik. And sadik comes to the word sadik which means righteous. I want you to be a righteous dude, man. And a righteous dude means someone who is incredibly refined. A refined human being. And it's mainly mainly mainly focused on your character traits on your midat. [clears throat] A refined human being speaks gently and kindly. They're loving. They're compassionate to themselves and other compassionate to themselves and other people. They push themselves in a healthy way. They're not soft on themselves. They're not hard on themselves. They're gentle to other people. They're kind. They're thoughtful. They're conscientious. They are uplifted and motivated and inspired and happy and present. And you want to be that. That's what we're going for. And you want to let go of all your anger and jealousy and doubt and fear and hatred and overthinking and procrastination and and all of those procrastination and and all of those things. And then you'll be able to experience life in a very conscious, present, joyful, loving way. Not only that, but they have a relationship with God. A real relationship with with the infinite divine loving creation of the universe. Not just God as an idea that I believe in and I follow his rules because I'm a good person, but really I have a relationship. The purpose of of Judaism is relationship. Um, so a sadic is someone who is living with God,

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2. 2:36gate of shame. And I hate that word. It's a very It's just not the right…
3. 5:40I got to get the word basically. So, it's a it's it's a sense of of…
4. 8:43[laughter] I don't know. So why is it that when he's there suddenly you up your…
5. 11:18so that's what embarrassment is embarrassment is the gap between what you want people to think…
6. 14:50from now. [laughter] [cough and snorts] It's embarrassing. >> Um, >> here. [clears throat] >> That's…
7. 17:53He said how can my kids look up to me if I do this? You want…
8. 20:28embarrassed about. One of my rabbis said it was a bit freaky. He said, "Imagine you…
9. 23:33whatever the whole thing and she didn't say it was him. She just said whoever's owns…
10. 26:37another physical example. When everyone's smoking and it's cool to smoke, then you smoke even if…

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