A Fabulous Life: Transformative Lessons for the Mind and Soul – Episode 19

What’s said in this shiur

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

Okay. So, um, we we want we want to delve a little bit into we're going to go actually to we're going to continue what we did yesterday in then I want to jump back uh to and talk about that. And Haram uses very verbose language, very excessive language, right? in describing a language, right? in describing a person's ability or opportunity to be whatever he wants to be. And we know uh Haram was a doctor and a great thinker and we know that he believed in what we call today the nature nurture side of things which is it and it's and it's brought in as well. We may touch on it today which means that a person is born with certain core traits, capacities with certain core traits, capacities and with certain limitations, expectations and that's and that's how it works. In other words, everybody comes into the world with something with some deck of some kind, right? and with things that have to that can be improved that must be improved that must be built on but generally speaking in terms of what the person ultimately in his hands. So let's see we're going to review we'll review the language quickly. So we're in the first of Right? Every person has permission. And how does he have it? It's given to him. Every person is given permission or is given the ability. If he wants to lean himself, right, Eddie? A lot of words here to lean himself. If he wants to lean into a good direction for himself and to be sadik to be sadik grand slam, right?

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1. 0:00Okay. So, um, we we want we want to delve a little bit into we're going…
2. 5:09>> When I made a decision, I made a choice to move in a certain direction.…
3. 10:48saying here. >> There's no but once I'm saying he he he changed he affected he…
4. 16:32not. But man has the unique ability to choose to go there. Meaning I'm never restricted,…
5. 21:44Don't buy into what the dumb people of the world say world say and many many…
6. 27:21the most destructive. Tell me why. >> Well, first it's more common. >> It's more common.…
7. 33:00move this away. What are we doing when we say the of course like anything anything…
8. 38:09and the negative inclination is still under my control so what does that mean we say…
9. 44:01>> From your hands, this came to you. So this brings a very different head about…
10. 49:40last year when we talked about this we called it the pixie dust right which means…

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