Derech Hashem / The Way of God #35

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

there you go yes good uh the question is um oh last week was recorded wasn't it last was recording okay uh uh people are obviously different in terms of their Drive let's call it drive spiritual drive that's an appropriate term you know obviously people are some people are born much more spiritually driven than others it's clear like that you know um I'm not talking about character know um I'm not talking about character traits it's different story some people are more gentle uh I I mentioned the difference what's the difference between personality and temperament remember the distinction temperament is what you're born with some kids are born very active you know some kids are always crying some kids are just quiet don't say anything you know they're content some kids are very uh very um reactive to stimulus anything you know too much light too much sound and so on and so on light too much sound and so on and so on there's enormous difference between children infants uh even if they're like uh you know one week old you see the difference that's Inn that's called temperament not personality as a child grows up the child interacts with the real world it learns who it is it has to learn what's called it has to learn itself that it it is an object that the reality is out there CU a child infant doesn't really realize that it thinks it is a total reality then it begins to separate

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1. 0:20there you go yes good uh the question is um oh last week was recorded wasn't…
2. 5:29uh there's a gambling going on and there you I'm giving obviously I'm going from one…
3. 10:39with you know so is it this is everybody did everybody start out the same and…
4. 15:51of choice so will itself you can be said not to have a source is what…
5. 20:57freak in a certain sense that nobody in his class thought he's out of his mind…
6. 26:12says they they you know uh put an effort and nothing happens who cares we put…
7. 31:23and they asked them what did you see so he said I saw I saw as…
8. 36:31and so who knows maybe he's a thousand times way a th000 miles ahead of the…
9. 41:51child into a pre teen teenager adult older person senior citizen whatever what what are they…
10. 47:05that clashes what it feeling that it's also there's a clash there how can I be…

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