Breaking the Ilusions | Rabbi Dr. Zev Ballen

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

Hi, welcome back. Boy, these weeks are just flying by. Wednesday again. Well, today we're going to continue talking about breaking down the illusions that we have about ourselves, others, Sham himself. And what do you replace those illusions with? With truth. We're going to go from processing what we're going to see, but when we're in that state where we're but when we're in that state where we're in that imaginary illusory state where we think that we're something that we're not, or we think that other people are doing things or saying things that they're really not saying. Well, when we have that sense of expectation or entitlement that Hashem should give us exactly what we want right now, and that we deserve it, we're in what Rabbi Nachman of Breslov calls the Koach Hamedameh. That's the imagination, but there's two types of imagination. There's this type of unhealthy imagination that I'm describing to you imagination that I'm describing to you now, and that's takes us far away from who we really are, and our real gifts, and our real alive self, and the constructive holy forces that are within you that you need to actualize to achieve and be happy. And then there's the healthy imagination. The healthy imagination is a little different than what secular psychology would consider healthy imagination. We're going to get into imagination. We're going to get into that a little bit later on. But we're going to be describing a process that basically goes in three stages. One, we break down the illusions. Two, we're going to be able to actualize not our desires, but our intellect. Intellect, seichel. And then, in the third step, acquire intellect. Acquire knowledge. Knowledge is referring to the Torah knowledge that you need.

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1. 0:10Hi, welcome back. Boy, these weeks are just flying by. Wednesday again. Well, today we're going…
2. 4:47all kinds of tightness. He has claims against others, against himself, and most damagingly, against Hashem.…
3. 9:24lives, we're going to have to progressively um use the spiritual tools that we have, the…
4. 15:01your cycle into the in in into the into your into your awareness. And it and…
5. 19:40But we can have inertia of thoughts. We can have inertia of feelings. That means just…
6. 24:52shouldn't have to work on them. So, he'll come and he'll instead of talking about his…
7. 29:31that way. He wants us to come to him for every little thing even a button…
8. 34:08He's talking about Hashgacha Protis, talking about the revelat- the revelation of God's messages to you…
9. 38:48Torah and to a Torah lifestyle and you surround yourself with people who are doing the…
10. 43:22is always there to some extent. How come this guy is more fortunate than I am?…

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