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Caustic Catalysts

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Rabbi Lazer Brody

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[Music] it's all good my lord tonight's lesson is called caustic catalysts and zlatan we're going to show how much of verbal abuse is really self-induced we bring it on ourselves and what happens once people recover from the initial shock of verbal abuse they've been humiliated in public somebody embarrassed them somebody said something nice not nice to them it could be in the privacy of one's home it could be with one spouse or one of one's children it could be at work it could be at the synagogue could be out on the street anywhere and it could be in a small group or alone or in public but most times it's sudden and unexpected so the first question a person usually asks himself is why me you know what i do deserve this now there's two ways of asking the question why me uh the person who is arrogant and not such an upright mode he says why me he's indignant he said that does the thing if he believes in hashem at all he doesn't think that hashem is acting according fairly he didn't deserve this but then a person with a muna the person who is a seeker of god secret wants to be close to hashem he says why me hashem you're a loving father what did i do wrong to get this because obviously whatever you do we learn in principles of vamuna we learn this very much in the whole world theme of three words of amunah that everything you do it's all love because you're loving father so you wouldn't do something to torment your children for no reason so there's obviously a message here so this is the upright person is looking for the light here what's the message and why is that so important because once he processes the message he

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