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Rabbi Avigdor Miller - It's Not Good for Man to Be Alone

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Rabbi Avigdor Miller

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that Hashem Hashem alas Hashem who is the alim of spirits of characters. He knows the character of human beings. He should appoint is au man who has a spirit in him to take the place of me. Now we understand how serious a request that was. In order to take over when Malaysia was leaving, you couldn't find a man like Misha Rabenu. But at least if they could find the very best person, that was what Misha sought. And he didn't rely on himself, although he was an expert in understanding human nature. So he applied to alle the creator of human nature who could look into a person's soul and form the depths of his character and choose a right man because character is extremely difficult to know. Like Yori said that's the most complicated of all the subjects cave mel the mind is more complicated than anything else a certain scientist said there's no object in the world that has as much complicated and orderly arrangement as a couple of pounds of brain and a human head. In the brain there is such complexity of arrangement that cannot be equal anywhere in the universe. Now hidden somewhere in those complexities are old quirks of character, old idiosyncrasies of character. And it's possible even for the man himself to be deceived all his life and not to realize what's lurking was hidden somewhere in the recesses of his character. And therefore when Matia had to seek a man to take his place. He didn't rely on himself and he appealed to the maker of character. Kar you should appoint somebody because you are the one who made spirits who made character and he said a man who has a spirit in him. So it's up to us to explain that we would say a spirit he shouldn't be a weakling. He shouldn't be a man who is

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