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What’s said in this shiur

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.

Prayer to is all about getting things that you want from Hashem. Yes. Prayer is all about getting things that you want from Hashem. That's why we pray. Hashem, I want a wife. I want money. I want to do well. one. Yeah, because prayer to is one of our major mindfulness and one of our major mindfulness and meditation tools and manifestation tools. Everyone asked me about manifestation. Does Judaism believe in manifestation? And I'm like, yeah, we believe in prayer is a manifestation tool. Therefore, it's a representative of the purpose of life. And the purpose of life is to get everything you want, isn't it? Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Right. Ridiculous thing to think. You're here to get all the things you want. Is this why did God create you to get everything you want? create you to get everything you want? Is that why God created you? No. Did Did God create you to have the perfect life that you want? No, it's not why God created you. God created you to be a tadic. God created you to be the greatest human being you could possibly become. And do you know what a saddic wants? Not much actually. A saddic doesn't really want that much. A saddic's cool. Someone who is needy, they want a lot because I need stuff in order to feel happy and good about myself. So I need loads of things. So therefore, I want loads of things. So really to feel that is an opportunity to get lots of stuff that I need to be happy and great. But remember what we said last time and the time before and the time before and the time before. And I'm very very very sorry to completely ruin your life, but I'm not ruining your life. I'm saving your life. Life's not about you at all. You're not here for you at all.

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1. 0:06Prayer to is all about getting things that you want from Hashem. Yes. Prayer is all…
2. 2:44into a giver, not a getter. I don't want to get, I want to give. Now…
3. 5:18I acknowledge I'm acknowledging. And once you acknowledge what people do for you, then hopefully that…
4. 8:24and my I was like really really the top 1% of privileged people on the face…
5. 11:01down. A complete I owe everything to the divine creator of the universe. Your heart would…
6. 14:04The rock of our life is I was reading the Maharal says this is a kind…
7. 16:39hands for our lives which are committed to your power. This says now this is a…
8. 19:14in your office like a men. You can do that. But you're here for a purpose.…
9. 22:20someone comes to your house for shabas and they behave really badly and they're not nice…
10. 24:55Hashem doesn't. Hashem says, "Okay, you have free will. You can do that. is going to…

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